Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I have yet to come across a police officer who is not interested in stamping out racism . ’ |
| 3 | CHAMPIONS Leeds face an FA inquiry after being reported by a police officer who was shocked by their four-letter tirade . |
| 4 | Before leaving school , he was interviewed by a careers officer who asked him : ‘ Do you want a job in a factory ? ’ |
| 5 | Eventually Neil was interviewed by a customs officer who , he says , ‘ Looked like Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks , but unlike him was as straight on the inside as he appeared on the outside . ’ |
| 6 | POLICE are looking for an antiques dealer who mysteriously vanished from his Barnard Castle home last month . |
| 7 | Prisoners who shared a cell with an alleged murderer have been telling a jury about threats made against a police informer whose body was later found in a lake . |
| 8 | The basic pension is payable according to a contributions formula which stipulates that to gain a full pension , sufficient contributions have to be paid in nine out of every ten years of a ‘ working life ’ ( i.e. paid employment ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The re-contras claimed that 66 former contras had been killed during the year in continuing clashes with Sandinista army and police personnel who they wanted replaced by a police force which included ex-contras . |
| 11 | Edward is a private detective hired by an antiques dealer who asked Edward to list all of the valuables in the house . |
| 12 | This point can best be proved by a police officer who observes some actual unnecessary obstruction of the road causing other road users inconvenience , delay , or complete blockage of the road etc . |
| 13 | He went through a schools system which made art compulsory , failing the subject at O-level but passed with flying colours to gain an Alevel in sculpture . |
| 14 | This is defined as a goods vehicle which does not form part of a vehicle combination and has a relevant plated weight not exceeding 3500kg , or ( not having a plated weight ) has an unladen weight not exceeding 1525kg . |
| 15 | Well they went to a boys school you see afterwards . |
| 16 | All this time I had been followed by a police car which now stopped . |
| 17 | For the first time details of serious crimes , including all cases of cattle stealing which village headmen chose to report , were investigated by a police force which could in theory take quick and decisive action . |
| 18 | If that run continues against a Rangers side who have won their last 15 games , re-confirmed Skol Cup winners and supercharged by the prolific McCoist , then not even the attacking flair which destroyed Stuttgart 4-1 at Elland Road five weeks ago may be enough . |
| 19 | As a matter of police practice , firearms practice what would you say about a police officer who stuck the gun at any at the back of someone 's neck ? |