Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [noun] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't you think for a rock'n'roll band it is somewhat stupid to promote this government idea , especially here in Belgium ? ’ |
| 2 | When she followed the instructions and applied for a job interview she was told : ‘ Sorry , we are only recruiting staff from Ireland . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | That looks like a Mars Bar you got do n't they ? |
| 7 | Looks like a motorbike handlebars you can stick it on the wall . |
| 8 | After booking into a London hotel you will get the chance to relax and meet the other finalists over lunch . |
| 9 | 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. |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What you 're looking in any formula say from a carbon compound you would be looking for that was bonded to four different groups , it does n't matter what the groups are , it does n't matter how big , how small they are |
| 14 | ’ I wis jist mebbe wonderin' if ye could pit in a word fir me ? ’ |
| 15 | Considered from a materialist perspective it has at least three damaging limitations : first it tends to construe sexuality in terms of an original pre-social plenitude , an initially unstructured natural energy ; second ( and consequently ) sexuality is conceived in certain of Freud 's central texts as a drive with hydraulic characteristics ; third , a phenomenon like homophobia , when it is not being blatantly disregarded , is explained too much in terms of the subjective , psychic repressions of its agents . |
| 16 | Profit-sharing systems may need to be changed to reflect differences , though if a firm is committed to a practice area it should not penalise those lawyers who pursue it . |
| 17 | At an IOWME ( International Organisation of Women and Mathematics Education ) discussion group in 1986 ( see Isaacson , Rogers and Dekker , 1986 ) , Gila Hanna reported on a gender analysis she and Erika Kuendiger had carried out on data from the Second International Mathematics Study ( SIMS ) . |
| 18 | When what is arguably the most beautiful and tranquil corner of the Yorkshire Dales National Park got planning permission to be turned into a golf course it was Mike Harding 's protests that summoned the ombudsman . |
| 19 | It has been a matter of debate because there are those in the council who feel that if you put in a contingency provision it will be spent whether it 's needed or not . |
| 20 | According to a ministry spokesman he fears that any attempt to legislate ‘ would attract extreme factions who would force through legislation to the detriment of the agrochemical industry as a whole . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ One telephone call which could easily have been faked from any phone box , a letter which no one outside the family has seen , and a pay-off which will supposedly take place once arrangements have been made over a telephone number they refuse to disclose . |
| 22 | I do n't know why , if he gets put on a murder case he 's there for three weeks in a hotel , it 's easy he said well I , you 'll be able to come over if you want to it 'll be like sitting at work , no one will know |
| 23 | Because the payments are made on a headage basis it would be unnatural for farmers not to attempt to increase the numbers of animals they can support on their farms . |
| 24 | Some species are named after their collectors , so if our new species of Tyrannosaurus were collected by a Mr Jones it might eventually be christened Tyrannosaurus jonesi . |
| 25 | I can however advise you that as of 1 May 1984 Sheriff Courts were empowered to grant divorces and in order to check whether the divorce was granted by a Sheriff Court you should apply to the Registrar General , General Search Unit , New Register House , Edinburgh as this office only holds records of divorces granted in the Court of Session . |
| 26 | it 's like that argument , that , when you look for a marriage partner you 're either looking for somebody to re if you 're a woman , to replicate your father , or to be |
| 27 | However , as Cusick maintained , once the audience had seen people coming and going through a stone doorway they would subconsciously assume the rest of the set to be stone as well . |
| 28 | Used as a revision book it can prompt and encourage some self-questioning but it is too brief to use as a teaching document . |
| 29 | Since a residence order was in substance what the foster mother sought , it was agreed between counsel for her and the local authority : ( a ) that the local authority would not object to the foster mother 's application for a residence order being made before the expiry of the six months period ; ( b ) that the hearing before the judge should be treated as the hearing of that application ; ( c ) that if , in the event , the foster mother were to be given leave to apply for a residence order she would agree to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review without any penalty as to costs ; but ( d ) that , if leave under the Act were to be refused , it would be open to the foster mother to continue the judical review proceedings . |
| 30 | A lot of people like it because basically th er when you look after a police dog it becomes your pet as well , you take it home with you and you take it to work with you , and the u you 'll have a police dog for sort of like its working life of seven to eight years , so basically you 're gon na have him for seven to eight years and he becomes a fa like a family pet . |