Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've mapped out a route to take you round , but are you sure you do n't want me do the actual deliveries ? |
| 2 | ‘ The original sleeping beauty , ’ said John , ‘ only she did n't have a prince to wake her . ’ |
| 3 | who has let a prince clamber her . |
| 4 | The only good and powerful females I can think of are fairies ( ie , not real people ) and for every fairy godmother there are 10 wimpy heroines waiting for a prince to rescue them . |
| 5 | Perhaps this was merely a ruse to trick them into a crossing at Forteviot . |
| 6 | In any event , the constitutional proposal to replace the existing prohibition on divorce by a provision to allow it was rejected . |
| 7 | A repurchase agreement provides a means for the short to lend money to the futures market : the short agrees to buy a bond with a provision to sell it back to the market at a predetermined price and to receive a rate of interest , the repo rate . |
| 8 | This was a solicitors pick it up and my Lord so you can , you can see what the dispute was . |
| 9 | But when he asked for his toast , a sister told him he would have to eat rolls and jam or go without . |
| 10 | There was a sister watching us all the time , and when we went to walk out into the garden she said it was n't allowed . |
| 11 | Cos I , I , know , I know it means roughly in common terms cos , I got a sister to interpret it . |
| 12 | A submarine took them to the island and the party made a successful landing in rubber boats . |
| 13 | ‘ That guy 's going to need a submarine to scrape him off the bottom . ’ |
| 14 | Oh I cried when Penny went I really did , I said you with a temper and that last day you know , we all got a bucket filled it up with ash trays , dog ends , bits of paper , oh I do n't know what was in it |
| 15 | That was half full of water and the ice had cut through the wood flow down the river , cos the water was coming in like hell and er cos one thing I had to do about it , had like a chain in the , in th in the boat , so we pulled the chain out , I pulled the chain out first and go just got the , the erm hull just above water so I bail the boat out with a bucket chuck it down the side right quick . |
| 16 | And you 've got ta have a bucket to mix it in . |
| 17 | Success as a pleader eluded him and , like many counsel in that position , Gloag became a law reporter . |
| 18 | The three men were working on the bridge when a cradle supporting them collapsed ; nineteen year old Mark Seaton from Chepstow in Gwent says he knows he 's lucky but what he feels most is anger . |
| 19 | What sort of a racehorse d' you think you get for a hundred quid ? |
| 20 | The press could provide little enlightenment because all newspapers had received a D-Notice asking them not to print any details about the background to the case . |
| 21 | In A Corner of Wheat the avaricious speculator is showing his friend through one of his elevators when he receives a cable telling him that he has cornered the world 's supply but then in his exultation he stumbles and ‘ falls to a terrible death in one of his own bins of wheat ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The students were encouraged by highly respectable people like Mrs Mang Sudewo , wife of a Brigadier-General , who ran a kitchen to feed them . |
| 24 | In 1842 six ships were at anchor in Funchal Bay when a hurricane blew them all onto the shore . |
| 25 | I remember a hansom pipped me to a good prospect , in Threadneedle Street . |
| 26 | It was a case do you see of the end itself changing in the course of a war . |
| 27 | He always looked pleased when a case interested him . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I 've decided to stay on a bit to settle him . ’ |
| 29 | Erm to be honest the revision getting a bit neglected it 's , we 've done most of our coursework , in most subjects there 's coursework which in some subjects which has to be , not , does n't have to be done before the exam but it 's preparation , preparation work for the exams . |
| 30 | And you 're your graph paper few metres long , or you 'd have to cramp this scale up quite a bit bring it closer together . |