Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [noun] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the other half used to go as a window leather which are called st |
| 2 | Do n't you think for a rock'n'roll band it is somewhat stupid to promote this government idea , especially here in Belgium ? ’ |
| 3 | To find its most lasting realization , Charlie 's vision would have to wait for a bank clerk who did understand metempsychosis , and who had not only a commercial education gained in an underground room at Lloyds Bank , but also a knowledge of Greek . |
| 4 | When she followed the instructions and applied for a job interview she was told : ‘ Sorry , we are only recruiting staff from Ireland . ’ |
| 5 | His raw material consists of Stephen Fry playing Stephen Fry thinly disguised as a throw-back aristo who decides to share his recently inherited stately pile for a few days with his old friends from revue days . |
| 6 | On scrutinising the notes of the 80 patients not referred for a specialist opinion we concluded that a nephrological opinion might have helped management in 17 cases . |
| 7 | I took my TV to be repaired and the shop asked for a £35 deposit which I paid . |
| 8 | The church council may very well wish to contend that the acquisition and disposal of the new site is a non-trading transaction , and that any resultant surplus should be regarded as a capital gain which , if applied for charitable purposes , would be exempt from CGT . |
| 9 | This optimum is not 100 per cent debt financing as equity is regarded as a safety cushion which will absorb any losses which might be incurred during the ordinary course of trading and/or liquidation . |
| 10 | Although Fleetwood Mac were a rock band , and you 're regarded as a rock guitarist whatever else you do , you 've always made ‘ left turns ’ along the way … |
| 11 | Loyalist terrorists were last night blamed for a parcel bomb which exploded at Post Office headquarters in Belfast . |
| 12 | Corrosion in pipework has been blamed for a gas escape which triggered the operation cloudburst emergency plan in February . |
| 13 | Under the leadership of the party the working masses constructed the material base for socialism , replaced primitive private farming with collectivized agriculture , and carried through an industrialization programme which astonished and alarmed the bourgeois world . |
| 14 | When we stopped for a picnic lunch we were pestered by a cheeky jackdaw which squabbled with seagulls for its share in the scraps of our sandwiches . |
| 15 | If they did not and Harris had been free to work for a GUS company which was not in the mail order business he could still have passed Littlewoods ' business secrets back to the mail order companies because of the structure of the GUS group . |
| 16 | For example , if you have ambitions to work as a district nurse it may help to have worked in the care of elderly or disabled people . |
| 17 | Whilst it is not possible to conceive of a designing system which can take into account influences which are beyond the designer 's knowledge and comprehension , it is possible to generate a fundamental design procedure in which all relationships , known to the designer , are " captured " and tested for . |
| 18 | That was what looks like a satellite dish what on earth is this ? |
| 19 | That looks like a Mars Bar you got do n't they ? |
| 20 | Also called on member states to detain Iraqi-registered ships entering their ports in violation of sanctions , reminded states of their obligation to freeze Iraqi assets , stated that measures would be considered against a member state whose nationals were found breaking sanctions , and also condemned Iraq 's " grave breaches " of the fourth Geneva convention on the rules of war , a reference to its holding of foreign nationals as a " human shield " at key installations . |
| 21 | From a hot-head who has done time for killing a man , he develops into a union organiser who discovers the eloquence his new role demands . |
| 22 | After booking into a London hotel you will get the chance to relax and meet the other finalists over lunch . |
| 23 | If it starts with a C sound we 'll try a C if it 's not one of those that I 've remembered starting with a K then it 's probably a C. |
| 24 | Sure enough there was the Marina but this was not pegged and after walking under a railway bridge I came to the first peg , number 65 . |
| 25 | The cost of maintaining these additional versions is extremely small , being based on the spaces occupied within a filing cabinet which must be serviced and kept warm and dry . |
| 26 | Sometimes , like last night , if we are landing in a field location we will be able to home-in on radio transmissions from a ground station and fly until we are overhead . |
| 27 | The one complication is that all Windows applications place the same sort of minimum demands on a machine and so if you want to work in a Windows environment you will have to add the extra requirements to machine fit to run Windows . |
| 28 | A Greek-Cypriot soldier was killed and a Turkish-Cypriot soldier wounded in a shooting incident which took place on May 7 , 1989 , in the UN-controlled buffer zone in Nicosia . |
| 29 | If you knew the equation relating light intensity to position in an intensity profile it would be a relatively simple matter to apply double differentiation and extract the points of maximum change . |
| 30 | Two ‘ products ’ were previewed in a UK briefing which embody this approach . |