Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 56-acre former Navy mine depot was given local nature reserve status after a fight to prevent it being developed as the site of 600-inmate prison . |
| 2 | Zoe 's horse ’ Scrumpy ’ stumbled after a jump catapulting her into the ground . |
| 3 | well he was in and he never wrote anything down and he got a fucking queen 's thingie after a year put him out |
| 4 | For a person insensitive to visual impressions the pattern on the wallpaper he is buying may seem not to deserve close scrutiny ; but if the room he has papered begins after a while to depress him , it has turned out that the pattern was relevant to the choice after all . |
| 5 | Mr Spiro said he was ‘ in mortal danger ’ after a book linked him to Terry Waite 's hostage negotiations . |
| 6 | after a 12-hour delay you have the right to cancel and get a full refund of all the money you have paid us , excluding insurance premiums . |
| 7 | Only after a time did I force my attention to the other problem — Gharr 's demand for the phetam in return for Mala . |
| 8 | After an eight-hour shift we went home — off duty — free men , while they in contrast went to their police houses and were available for ‘ discretional duty ’ , at the call of the system twenty-four hours a day ; proving we were independent free men and they were slaves ! |
| 9 | In 1318 , after an attempt to poison him in the previous year , John XXII thanked Margaret for sending him ‘ a certain knife-handle in serpentine form ’ which was reputed to detect poison . |
| 10 | ‘ It seemed to take less of a hit to give me a concussion and it 's taking me longer to recover , ’ he says . |
| 11 | It would n't take a very big hit with the mass of a forklift to dent it in actual fact . |
| 12 | If you ca n't , but would n't mind keeping the draft till you 're in Prague ( it 's good for six months ) , it may be less of a hassle cashing it there , especially as the bank in Brno may charge you something for the transaction . |
| 13 | ( Once a 14-year-old son of a friend asked him if he did n't ever get nervous building lighthouses with the sea pounding ferociously on the rocks below him . |
| 14 | However , out of the blue came the offer of a friend to do it for me , and naturally I accepted gratefully . |
| 15 | We all know the limitations of a friend teaching you to drive — the finer points are never brought out unless the friend is himself an instructor . |
| 16 | For , according to the terms of her contract with Vasey 's , with the exception of a clause giving them the right to instant dismissal should she ever be guilty of industrial misconduct , either party was to give the other three months ' notice . |
| 17 | ‘ That bastard of a Frenchman sent them ! ’ |
| 18 | He makes contacts with Eritrean representatives in London , and then the professional lure of a scoop brings him , bumpily , to the front line in the mountains , with Asmara , the capital , only a 100 miles away . |
| 19 | Exercising in front of a mirror encourages us to take a real look at our bodies and get to know and control them better . |
| 20 | ( 1 ) A licensing board may grant an occasional licence to the holder of a licence authorising him to sell alcoholic liquor , during such hours and on such day as the board may determine , in the course of catering for an event taking place outwith the licensed premises in respect of which he is the holder of a licence . |
| 21 | of a licence authorising you to drive a vehicle of that class . |
| 22 | ‘ of a licence authorising you to drive a vehicle of that class ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ of a licence authorising you to drive a vehicle of that class ’ . |
| 24 | How much of a check do they actually go into if somebody makes a claim on that ? |
| 25 | If persuasion does not work , ‘ green conditionality ’ might be the answer in some cases , unpopular though it would be ; and for the really hard cases , sanctions , provided there is sufficient of a consensus to back them and the industrial world has not sunk into a mood of profound fatalism about the impossibility of stemming the greenhouse gases . |
| 26 | I need a bit of a push to do it . |
| 27 | Oh dear — arrival of a cat to harass me . |
| 28 | Well certainly I mean , one would want to have a substantial majority in favour of a call to issue it . |
| 29 | ‘ Here am I , in my thirteenth summer and wedded to a boy of ten who will be unable to complete the marriage for at least five years — and with no sign of a bosom to show I am truly a damsel full grown ! ’ |
| 30 | Only a handful of British companies were of a size to contemplate it , and among them there existed a curious air of parochialism , of not wanting to venture into foreign-language recordings , or markets which were unfamiliar . |