Example sentences of "['s] [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davidson emphasises above his own role in Provincial 's response a team effort , not only in the sense that he had to delegate a great deal in such a multi-faceted role — although ‘ logically planning goes together with finance and not only did we have the capacity to take on overseas but control of subsidiaries fits too ’ — to his deputies , and , but that the whole company was involved . |
| 2 | Dieter did not prove a popular leader –many thought that he had accepted the Marienburger 's money a little too readily –and he was replaced by Wilhelm III , Prince of Altdorf and Elector Count of the Reikland . |
| 3 | He is an active member of the World Wildlife Fund , completely untouched by Central Television 's exposure a few weeks ago , and he carefully disposes of his old sump oil . |
| 4 | After Courtney 's trial a senior detective revealed that Courtney had probably abused 100 other women . |
| 5 | If the offeror is offering the target company 's shareholders a choice of consideration and one is cash , the cash offer is known as a " cash alternative " . |
| 6 | Exactly how many ‘ teeth ’ such a fish has to ‘ sink into the mild mannered moggy ’ is doubtful , but we bet it gave the cat 's foot a nasty suck … |
| 7 | Rose gave Baptiste 's earlobe a hard pinch . |
| 8 | Today , when councils like that in Tewkesbury restore old Meeting Houses — in Tewkesbury 's case a Baptist chapel down a narrow lane opposite the great Abbey Church — Baptist visitors are as surprised as everyone else at the austerity of the past . |
| 9 | Several states maintain Soviet military advisers on their soil , in Syria 's case a substantial number . |
| 10 | Apart from other considerations , many other almost insuperable obstacles , in order to get hold of Mike or her father she would have to go through switchboards and in her father 's case a secretary . |
| 11 | The weaknesses are of exaggeration , and in Illich 's case a romantic and utopian nostalgia for a past that never existed . |
| 12 | Sally 's sister a little girl of three months , Daryl had meant to tell Sally what her mother had said and had forgotten and now she remembered . |
| 13 | In the early years of the BAA 's existence a satisfactory clerical records service relating to employees was maintained and operated manually . |
| 14 | It 's not that my family deliberately kept Fred 's existence a secret . |
| 15 | Sharpe blew the Prince 's whore a kiss , then rode to find a crossroads . |
| 16 | The latest move comes at a time when ICI 's £1.2bn a year pharmaceutical division , which accounts for around a fifth of group trading profits , is set to emerge from a relatively fallow period . |
| 17 | The family and marriage , in the particular form that it took in Victorian times , was , for the great majority of Engels 's contemporaries a sacred , eternal , and unchallengeable institution . |
| 18 | You can imagine the population of th , of a nearby town , every now and again they would come down and perhaps throw some food over in this man 's direction a loaf of bread , a , a a a a a a , a hunk of meat or , some other food every now and again so he would keep alive . |
| 19 | Not until the appearance in United Nations World , dated May 1951 , of an article by Professor Hans Thirring , entitled ‘ Is Peron 's A-bomb a swindle ? ’ , was Richter spurred to put pen to paper But his rejoinder , ‘ Argentina has no atom bomb ’ in the July issue of that journal , was a disappointment to those expecting some scientific enlightenment . |
| 20 | Democratic party leaders were already piloting their own education bill through Congress , and Richard Gephardt , Democratic leader of the House of Representatives , gave Bush 's proposals a lukewarm response , describing them as " tinkering at the margins " . |
| 21 | From the Prince 's headquarters a road ran eastwards through Nivelles to meet the Charleroi highway at an unnamed crossroads . |
| 22 | The surprise announcement of British entry into the Exchange Rate Mechanism appeared to have solved , at least in the short term , the long-standing divisions in the party and government over the correct approach to Europe — divisions that had contributed to Lawson 's resignation a year earlier . |
| 23 | He was assuming that the slice had come from Miss Tuckey 's kitchen a makeshift to arm ‘ Praeger ’ while the others went to get a van or just new instructions since they would n't have planned on removing a body . |
| 24 | But the possibilities of domestic tension were increased by Warnie 's presence a hundredfold . |
| 25 | He sensed Rodo 's presence a few metres ahead of him . |
| 26 | When he was fetched from the Common Room his walk had a touch of spring , and he came into Pumfrey 's presence a shade more jauntily than would have been the case if he had been interviewed earlier . |
| 27 | Erm and also we take take the second year 's payment a year later . |
| 28 | We take the second year 's payment a year later . |
| 29 | And we take the second year 's , this is a sales pitch , we take the second year 's payment a year later . |
| 30 | Desert Orchid would not have given Norton 's Coin a second thought since their Kempton meeting , for he had his public to deal with . |