Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , so it cost a lot to get him half way across the world , but money does n't mean much if you ca n't use it wisely . ’ |
| 2 | That helped a bit did it ? |
| 3 | Damiani senior maintained a chauffeur to take him round the family olive groves . |
| 4 | … and found a man watching her , his eyes fixed to her face with blatant sexuality . |
| 5 | Managers found it impossible to maintain discipline : if a girl found a man to keep her for a while , she would ‘ scarper ’ ( disappear ) . |
| 6 | He sat down miserably on a large rock , took out his pipe , and found a match to light it . |
| 7 | FitzAlan moved a pace to meet them , his free hand unfastening his cloak . |
| 8 | Trevor , a male friend , is trying to persuade Brenda that if she let a man take her home they might sleep together . |
| 9 | As we have said , this is a non-linguistic conceptual representation of what the speaker wants to convey in a sentence — the idea , in our example , that there was a boy , a girl and a flower , that the boy hit the girl , and that he used a flower to do it . |
| 10 | If one represents the sentence as , roughly speaking , HIT [ boy = agent , girl = acted-upon , flower = instrument ] then clearly this representation applies just as well to the active and to the passive sentences we have just given ( and to many other sentences too , such as ‘ The boy hit the girl , and he used a flower to do it ’ or ‘ There was boy , and he had a flower , and he hit the girl with it ’ ) . |
| 11 | I quickly discovered that this fish was quite happy for me to take him in my hand , and from that day on I never used a net to catch him , just a hand and a plastic bowl to put him in . |
| 12 | Bell took light from the sun , a lamp or even a candle , and used a lens to focus it into a beam . |
| 13 | In the cell he shouted a bit to bring them back , but only got shouted at in his turn by two drunken fellow inmates . |
| 14 | I scribbled a note telling him what our doctor had said and begging him , if he saw fit , for the drug that promised the chance of an easier time for us both . |
| 15 | But that was before , our of the blue , he received a call to tell him that Jamie had scored a final round of 60 and then had beaten Anders Forsbrand n a play-off to record the first Tour victory of his career . |
| 16 | A band played as Canberra entered the port , and throughout disembarkation , each passenger received a flower to welcome them to the city . |
| 17 | After a very successful tour of West Indies , he took his second team off to Australia , but on the eve of the first Test he received a cable telling him that his widowed mother had died . |
| 18 | Approaching a bridge he received a message telling him there was firing ahead . |
| 19 | The next day I received a telegram informing me that my request to be transferred to clerical duties at the Ministry of the Interior had been granted . |
| 20 | All clubs received a letter warning them against organising practice or trial matches before the season officially starts on 1st September . |
| 21 | A year later , I received a letter inviting me to lunch so that I could come and see his garden . |
| 22 | At the end of March they were delighted when they received a letter saying they had been shortlisted to take part . |
| 23 | The fraud was uncovered when William Wilby received a letter saying he was overdrawn on an account he knew nothing about . |
| 24 | Mr Schabort said : ‘ At first they seemed quite eager but then I received a letter saying it was not council policy to meet with South African officials . |
| 25 | On the morning of the auction he received a letter informing him that after a ‘ first examination ’ the self-portrait was considered ‘ to be of major interest to the national heritage ’ and as such would go before a commission for its fate to be decided . |
| 26 | So , one fine morning the magazine 's publisher and feature writer received a notice informing them that Steven Morrissey and Johnny Marr were proceeding with an action for defamation of character . |
| 27 | To this letter I received a reply dated I March which contained some of the most interesting remarks he ever communicated to me , and which is of permanent value in reflecting his opinions on much wider issues : |
| 28 | When he hired a taxi to take her to Eastbourne for the day ( the same man who took a bus to the theatre , rather than pay for a cab ) she jumped out at the lights near Oval cricket ground because she was so disturbed by his erratic behaviour . |
| 29 | They hurried through the tranquil , fragrant-smelling garden , past-the Inner and Middle Temples , and down Temple Stairs where they hired a wherry to take them to Westminster . |
| 30 | It was a mournful pair that hired a boat to take them to Saltash and acquaint the Lee family of the tragedy . |