Example sentences of "a [noun] [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She complements it with vocal caricatures of the monstrous and a keening she calls a ‘ vengeful mourning cry ’ . |
| 2 | We also have a public sector borrowing requirement of heroic proportions , and even in a recession we have a huge balance of payments problem . |
| 3 | walking keep you fit its a bit you had a hair cut last week if you 'd of left , if you had n't of had it done you could of taken this thing down |
| 4 | After a bit he got a job in a brick works and picked up £80 a week on day shift and £100 on night shift . |
| 5 | As a footballer you had a regular wage and people looked up to you . |
| 6 | That 's why that , at the moment I do n't see it well I do n't see it a necessity you to get a pension . |
| 7 | When he commits to a budget he takes a risk . |
| 8 | In playing a part you have a whole journey of rehearsals behind you . |
| 9 | Apart from an inkstained blotter and a penstand it held a small wooden bookshelf containing the Shorter Oxford Dictionary , a dictionary of quotations , Roget 's Thesaurus and Fowler 's Modern English Usage . |
| 10 | As the setting for a love-scene it has a great deal to be desired , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 11 | On the toss of a coin he takes a consolation prize of an air pump . |
| 12 | Tigers do not know that humans beings have no sense of smell , and when a tiger becomes a man-eater it treats a human being exactly as it treats wild animals , that is , it approaches its intended victims up-wind , or lies up in wait for them down-wind . |
| 13 | ‘ As a house-guest you leave a lot to be desired , young woman , ’ he said cuttingly . |
| 14 | A verdict he maintained a jury would never return . |
| 15 | He was short and sturdy and when he was on a horse he seemed a part of it . |
| 16 | a er , but want to , want to do a wedding you pay a certain er amount of money then , then when you break the wedding you refund the money to your husband . |
| 17 | In November Tajan told the Daily Telegraph of London he also had FFr15 million owed to him in France — a figure he rectified a week later to ‘ between FFr6–8 million ’ . |
| 18 | He received two life sentences , with a recommendation he serve a minimum of eighteen years . |
| 19 | Er when you differentiate a sine you get a cos . |
| 20 | Integrating integrating a sine you get a minus cos so cos Z okay |
| 21 | By writing a precis you boil a passage down to its essentials , and the meaning should then be crystal clear ! |
| 22 | As a result we had a demoralised and demotivated workforce and needed a completely fresh start — a sign that things were going to work differently . |
| 23 | Yeah , that 's right income , income elastic manufactured goods , as a result manufactured erm sectors will be growth sectors simply bec , because as income per capita rises , people spend proportionately more of their increased income on manufactured goods and as a result we witness a marked increase in trade in manufactures . |
| 24 | As a result we have a reinforcement of the police and an overloading of the penal system … |
| 25 | As a result we operate a booking system which aims to give as many people as possible an opportunity to play . |
| 26 | I I obviously Cornwall is a special case which we obviously as our Celtic cousins it is the only non-Anglo Saxon county in England and as a result we feel a very , very strong erm er almost a kind of Uncle erm Nephew relationship to Cornwall , whereas the Cornish are certainly not Welsh but they 're certainly not Anglo Saxon English either . |
| 27 | As a result they produced a document called an " Initial Feasibility Study " . |
| 28 | For example , the German authorities in the 1960s sought to offset upward pressure on the deutschmark ; as a result they took a relaxed view of the development of a foreign deutschmark bond market and German residents ' purchases ( which entailed a capital outflow ) . |
| 29 | In the one-way mirror treatment , when males were unaware they were being watched , they were more aggressive towards infants than in the clear screen treatment and as a result they received a drubbing from the female . |
| 30 | As a result they talk a lot of bullshit about how this is their generation 's answer to LSD ( It 's our final frontier ’ ) and also call up the memories of past sins and traumas — playground racism , the suicide of a Viet vet father , some modish videotape voyeurism , bullying and murder even — which then return to haunt them in the real world . |