Example sentences of "[vb base] an [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another committee man said : ‘ We want an engineer and we 've hired a baker . |
| 2 | What can you , I do n't know if you ever , ever came across any of these er the mark two that want an extension and I think it would project a |
| 3 | CRUSADERS deserve an Oscar if they were play-acting to confuse watching Swiss spy Michel Pont at Seaview . |
| 4 | Yeah , but you see you 've got the , you 've got all the , the other things ins , down , down it , underneath , and I mean if you started going in with a knife and you started cutting down , I mean you could sa , cut an artery or anything could n't you ? |
| 5 | The words ’ … unless I receive an assurance that you will seek immediate psychiatric advice … ’ flashed into his mind with horrible pleasingness . |
| 6 | The organisational changes that come with white-collar CCT and its attendant activities create an environment where it is all the more imperative for the traditionally federal style of Town Hall management to look very carefully at how it manages its electronic records . |
| 7 | I also vividly recall an occasion when I suddenly heard a loud crash ’ and Ed Chambers , the bombardier , reeled back shouting ‘ I 'm hit — I 'm hit ’ . |
| 8 | remember : you can only ask for water if you establish and maintain an overlap before you are two board lengths from the mark . |
| 9 | The story had been taken up in yesterday 's paper by another lady , old-age pensioner Miss Judith Kennedy , a retired teacher who told a local reporter that ‘ I know an eagle when I see one because I lived in Cyprus for twenty years and there are many eagles there . |
| 10 | And come and get an itinerary if you want one . |
| 11 | And and a and if you like an affirmation that they 've got a future with us . |
| 12 | I was no expert , but I would know enough to make a preliminary diagnosis and summon an ambulance if I had to arrange for her to be taken into hospital . |
| 13 | That does n't seem to me to be a very satisfactory way of detecting that these systems were n't working and with such complex systems as we 've got such as the system , it would take one person quite a number of minutes , if not hours , to check all the lights so I very much recommend this system and I should I suppose declare an interest when you start to talk about bulbs |
| 14 | Can I perhaps to that point raise an issue that we discussed at the meeting , and that was this whole point about de-sulphurisation , and use of low sulphur coal . |
| 15 | Would every ‘ past service ’ raise an implication that it was to be paid for , so as to allow action on a subsequent promise of payment ? |
| 16 | Perhaps I ought to ring Dawn and make an appointment if I want to talk to you ? |
| 17 | Is it is it because having taxed the disabled and taxed the divorce the government are aff afraid to face to the music and make an announcement that they are increasing tax on the sick . |
| 18 | Some families with otherwise complex patterns of activity make an effort that everybody should be present to gather at breakfast time , say . |
| 19 | Seven , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven Ascot fruit stake , ticket on a horse roll a double and you win a thousand pounds , roll an even and you win two hundred , roll an odd and you |
| 20 | X is defined as something very like a human eye , sufficiently similar that the human eye could plausibly have arisen by a single alteration in X. If you have a mental picture of X and you find it implausible that the human eye could have arisen directly from it , this simply means that you have chosen the wrong K. Make your mental picture of X progressively more like a human eye , until you find an K that you do find plausible as an immediate predecessor to the human eye . |
| 21 | I feel an assurance that I shall be saved … |
| 22 | Pound an hour or something ? |
| 23 | It has recently become an issue because it is so visible and entirely unregulated . |
| 24 | The elephant analogy arose because most of us all of us recognize an elephant when we see one but it is very difficult to describe it |
| 25 | Too often , he says , we only recognise an opportunity when it arrives back on our doorstep as an import . |
| 26 | But this reverses the order of argument most of us would endorse : we share an understanding that our officials must treat all members of the community they govern as equals because we believe they should behave that way , not the other way around . " |
| 27 | And then er one I think an hour before whichever event you 're dreading particularly . |
| 28 | Erm so she said , she 'd rather just have fifteen or sixteen of us and just do an hour cos we 'd learn a lot more which is very true . |
| 29 | Would there ever come an occasion when she could put them on , together with the leghorn hat , or the felt , and the new shoes that she would buy herself ? |
| 30 | At the end of each level you take an exam and you can record your results as a graph . |