Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Coalisland — Dungannon march had given everyone a good day out and had used up a lot of their energy by the time the moment of confrontation arrived . |
| 2 | He had always done that at his pre-production party , given everyone a carnation to wear , but this time he had overreached himself . |
| 3 | ‘ The nature garden has given everyone a lift and will be somewhere that the children can enjoy . ’ |
| 4 | The camcorder has given everyone the chance to star in their own home movies . |
| 5 | Film and Filming magazine said the film had given everyone an insight into the thinking of Corman and Nicholson . |
| 6 | He offers everyone a serious comparison of Keaton and Charlie Chaplin ( with Harold Lloyd and Fatty Arbuckle trivia thrown in for good measure ) , revealing that Keaton was , for him , the true genius on account of his invention and comic daring . |
| 7 | Frankly , if I were n't in such a high-risk position , I 'd want someone a little more cosy as my obstetrician , but Owen is the best for someone like me and at times he can be a dear , so I should n't complain … |
| 8 | " Yes , I met someone the other night who made a sort of suggestion about a possible job of some kind . " |
| 9 | The call would have given someone the chance to replace the spare set in the security cupboard here . |
| 10 | She was sure that at some point she 'd given someone the cold shoulder and hurt them badly without noticing . |
| 11 | It was an unsuitably domestic scene for two people labelling someone a murderer . |
| 12 | The COB Rules do not define the relevant transactions that make someone a customer . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , she 'll make someone a wonderful wife ! ’ screeched Jamie . |
| 14 | She was a sweet , loving person and would make someone a wonderful wife . |
| 15 | A " customer " is a person with or for whom a firm carries on , or merely intends to carry on , " regulated business " or other business carried on in connection with that regulated business ; the reference to " other business " does not make someone a customer if he would not otherwise be but seems merely to extend the scope of the activities covered by the COB Rules . |
| 16 | An American editor deleted a comment from one of her books when a father tells his daughter : ‘ Do n't bother about school because you 're a pretty little thing and will make someone a good wife . ’ |
| 17 | yeah but he sat outside Sally 's and Carole said no I I I 'm you know I ca n't do it , she said she wants someone a bit younger and she said |
| 18 | John Dobbin , defending , said the interviewer ‘ should have expected someone the age of her own father ’ . |
| 19 | For one way of denying someone the respect to which he is entitled is by failing to treat him as an autonomous agent , for example , by unreasonably restricting the range of alternative courses of action from which he can choose . |
| 20 | ‘ The Madine 's , Johnston 's and Brown 's all took their baptism in competition like this , and we 're always hoping to discover someone a little special . ’ |
| 21 | ’ Aye , ye mentioned somethin' the last time I wis up . ’ |
| 22 | So if you 're wandering around and you want to write somebody a quick note , you do n't have to open the rings and take out a piece of paper , you just write on here and tear it off . |
| 23 | A actually I visited somebody the other day and you just forget you just forget . |
| 24 | The number of applications for judicial review has none the less increased significantly over the past decade . |
| 25 | In the last few years , South Africa , though a rich country compared with its northern neighbours , has none the less been hit by international economic trends , including declining gold prices , as well as by pressures of sanctions . |
| 26 | The first of these is the promise of resource-based learning ( RBL ) , which , though unfulfilled in the majority of the curriculum in most schools , has none the less had some influence on the pattern of work . |
| 27 | What occurred none the less fell well short of the Community 's original proposals . |
| 28 | I fully accept that if I want to know everything a top luthier knows then I should go away and make a serious study of the subject , but I would be quite happy to read a dedicated magazine each month from which I can learn about what 's new , who 's up to what , what new guitars are like to play etc. etc. and also the meaning of the industry 's technical terminology . |
| 29 | Well there 's Sian , they probably want one the same for Nicola , Jill |
| 30 | After all , there 's always tomorrow to try something a little more energetic . |