Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that if either the Conservatives or Labour sought to go it alone as a minority Government they risked an economic crisis and rising interest rates . |
| 2 | There was enough money in her savings account to see her through for a while . |
| 3 | If Walter Smith is going to continue producing them out of a hat from the reserve team like this , Rangers will remain without peer and the rest will have an even greater excuse for abandoning hope before they start . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't want to meet them again in a hurry . |
| 5 | However , after a lively meeting with directors , Reg was persuaded to carry on as coach by three men in a hearse who asked to meet him outside during a beer break . |
| 6 | She tried to see him dispassionately as a grey-haired solicitor rather too well endowed with easy charm ; indeed , she saw him thus , but she also saw him otherwise , and could not help herself . |
| 7 | You want to shake him off like a wasp on a sunny day . |
| 8 | I I do n't know dust them up with a a cloth and a bit of Pledge I expect . |
| 9 | I tried to clean it out with a trolley . |
| 10 | Mr MacConachie took over Sherwoods 12 years ago and has built it up from a 34-man , £25m. business , to one which now employs 125 . |
| 11 | He promised to adopt the same approach to councillorship ‘ which has seen me through as a councillor for 20 years with 11 of these as county councillor . ’ |
| 12 | There is times I 've casually picked it up , dropped it on the floor and forgotten to pick it up for a while because I 'm on the phone and sometimes it is quite loud in my ear . |
| 13 | Only you can answer this and you might need to talk it over with a close friend if you want to get to the heart of your feelings on the matter . |
| 14 | ‘ But I 'll think I 'll just need to talk it over with a few people before we run it though . ’ |
| 15 | Najma 's family tried to talk her out of a singing career as not quite suitable for a good Muslim girl , but she persevered and in 1984 won Britain 's Asian song contest on her first public appearance . |
| 16 | SEARCHING for genuine bargains in the New Year Sales can be a struggle but TODAY has made it easier with a comprehensive guide to the best buys on the High Street . |
| 17 | She tried to cover it up with a laugh . |
| 18 | Howey has got it off to a T : so far , she has thrown many of her top opponents with it , including Emanuella Pierantozzi , the Italian world title-holder , who only just managed to twist out and avoid a score in the last world championships . |
| 19 | Oh you want to fetch it down to a board technic |
| 20 | Jim tried coaxing him away with a glass of brandy , which Albert thought a low device . |
| 21 | Mrs Kipling said her husband tried to put it out with a jacket . |
| 22 | I want to let you in on a somewhat embarrassing secret , which is now a secret no longer ! |
| 23 | Not so for Locke , you will recall that so f the way Locke sets it up is a legitimate civil society is first established by a social contract and that creates a community , a body politic , which has a capacity to act , and I 'll put a little question mark over that shortly , erm and that community then as a separate act sets up a government which , because it has set it up as a trust , erm it can change or dismiss pretty well at will . |
| 24 | History has brought them together as a phenomenon without compare , and it is Pakistan 's good fortune that they are surviving fitness scares long enough to bring many honours to their country . |
| 25 | But my colleague has brought it forward on a matter of safety . |
| 26 | ‘ The guide , who has driven them there in a minibus , naturally counts heads before he starts on the return journey . |
| 27 | ‘ Everyone tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . ’ |
| 28 | EVERYONE tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . |
| 29 | The myth of the entrepreneurial hero is as old as America and has served us well in a number of ways . |
| 30 | I have worked for him for more than three years and have come to admire him both as a doctor and a man . |