Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This protected what Lord Bridge called the safeguards built into the judicial review procedure which protected from ‘ harassment ’ public authorities on whom Parliament imposed a duty . |
| 2 | I mean erm them solicitors sent a letter to him we had a copy come here but erm , he 's got ta pay her fifty pound a week . |
| 3 | Three years ago — the day after Under Secretary Lehmann had been killed in the House by Tolonen — he had summoned the leaders of the House before him , and there , in the Purple Forbidden City where they had murdered his son , had granted them concessions , amongst them permission to build a generation starship . |
| 4 | We 're negotiating with the polytechnic to give them permission to build a hostel on the John Boscoe playing field . |
| 5 | It also gives me pleasure to rehearse a story clearly that I have thought about . |
| 6 | What about my freedom to eat a canteen meal in relatively clean air , to wear clothes that do not reek of stale tobacco and to breathe air as clean as is reasonably possible . |
| 7 | ‘ Is it any wonder that , while I might have been too hard-headed to accept what is happening to me , I could not deny I actually felt my heart give a tug that night ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Call me … call me , Mr Kawasaki , ’ I said , and , like my old generator , my heart skipped a bound . |
| 9 | My heart skipped a beat and the fear came flooding back . |
| 10 | My heart gave a jump , then resumed something like its normal beat as I registered the fact that even in an empty house there were draughts , and doors moved and creaked with no one to push them . |
| 11 | My heart missed a beat . |
| 12 | My heart missed a beat . |
| 13 | My heart missed a beat … ’ |
| 14 | I 'd stand for hours in front of the mirror , painting my face and fingernails and backcombing and lacquering from a sticky , plastic squeeze bottle until my hair resembled a busby . |
| 15 | Is there anything I can use on my hair to add a bit of life to my curls between perms ? |
| 16 | There were endless ways in which he could have made my activities seem a nuisance , positively damaging to our marriage , or — which would have been worst of all — merely trivial . |
| 17 | and in our my case give a zero or or an infinite , I 'm not sure which way round they 'd do it erm tax coding which I find |
| 18 | The following day my foot resembled a rugby ball with little pink sausages sticking out , but somebody had to dig the dogs out . |
| 19 | A month ago my bank informed me that it had been obliged to arrest £250 of my money to satisfy a court order obtained by sheriff officers . |
| 20 | The burger bar is doing a sizzling trade and Pacitto 's , dear old Pacitto 's the best ice cream you can buy for my money has a queue that stretches halfway back to Middlesbrough . |
| 21 | I do n't know if it ever occurred to me to regret my inability to have a child by Jean-Claude . |
| 22 | One of the babies ' mother even said that she would not have another child until my mum had a vacancy ! |
| 23 | The only thing that really happened was that my mum got a divorce in 1972 on the grounds that he had sexually assaulted me and there was mental cruelty to her . |
| 24 | And my mum thinks a home she wants to take me to a psychiatrist or something . |
| 25 | My mum has a passion fruit plant and it has grown for the first time . |
| 26 | Seven-year-old Michael had written in his diary , ‘ On Saturday I helped my mum bake a cake and I made a dress for my doll ’ . |
| 27 | Could my mum get a divorce without knowing where he is ? |
| 28 | Could my mum get a divorce without knowing where he is ? |
| 29 | The men asked my permission to open a case of tea and a case of tins of sausages from the stores brought by the two planes . |
| 30 | It 's against my rules to use a calculator ! |