Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These section 52 agreements became the object of increasing contention in the 1970s , with local authorities seeing them as a means of bargaining for planning gain , while developers , at the extreme , regarded them as blackmail . |
| 2 | Wilful and wasteful of such innocent , joyful music , Mordkovitch wrenched at the tempi , disregarded the dynamics and , showing a wanton unfeelingness for the orchestra 's commendable attempts to accommodate her in a notey accompaniment , trailed Yuasa reeling in her wake . |
| 3 | Laura 's insistence on punctuality for meal times became something of a fetish , not because she was herself preparing meals which risked being spoiled ; she rarely had time for cooking any more . |
| 4 | SWEET JESUS : ‘ Albino Ballerina ’ / ‘ Your Baby Loves Me ’ West Midlands-based glamour pop four-piece follow their recent UK support spots with Pop Will Eat Itself with a double A-side |
| 5 | All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room . |
| 6 | Strange said : " Athletes who are in the public eye have a responsibility to conduct themselves in a manner which can set a positive example . |
| 7 | Your heart fits me like a glove . |
| 8 | Harvey led me to a room which he unlocked with a key . |
| 9 | Influenced by these dreams , beautiful mornings seemed to mock her waking despair , but once she had shaken herself free from their shades , sun , sky , trees and birds enveloped her like a benediction . |
| 10 | Karajan ( DG ) has often been taken to task from making an adagio meal of Shostakovich 's andante here , but Flor turns it into a snail 's banquet ( beautiful Concertgebouw wind playing notwithstanding ) . |
| 11 | The 28-year-old cab driver attacked her in a clearing after she went to join Queen 's Club in west London , Mark Dennis , prosecuting , told the Old Bailey . |
| 12 | GREAT Portland Estates boss Richard Peskin is warning shareholders to brace themselves for a dividend cut next year . |
| 13 | Filaret owed his eminence less to his holy office than to his son 's willingness to treat him as a co-ruler . |
| 14 | George Best , a thin teenager from Belfast , whose dribbling skills made him into a star with Manchester United and the darling of the sports and gossip columns epitomized the new era . |
| 15 | Whether you decide on a honeymoon at home or you 're planning a trip abroad it 's a wonderful excuse to treat yourself to a couple of new outfits for the beach and it 's essential to look after yourself and protect against the sun 's more harmful rays . |
| 16 | Giffen led us into a room on the left . |
| 17 | The old warrior treated it as a kind of personal adventure playground where he could drive through cherished projects such as the revival of the wartime Home Guard or toy with trifles such as the age of entry to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth . |
| 18 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 19 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 20 | Where do evokes the infinitive as a reality , the modals evoke it as a potentiality . |
| 21 | But she could do nothing , while Sylvie 's presence drew everyone like a charm . |
| 22 | Ezra provided me with a standard ; and gingered me into an attempt to train towards it . |
| 23 | This week , the ageing lothario was horrified when a cloth-capped pensioner pursued him down a street , wreathed in smiles and waving an autograph book , The Rolling Stone coldly ignored him , appalled at being associated with a gummy grandad and perhaps being all too forcibly reminded of his own advancing years . |
| 24 | When Stoker approached him with a play intended for his master , Irving , taking no thought of the devotion shown by his factotum , reacted along a scale from dismissiveness to contempt . |
| 25 | Bantam moved him from a Christmas slot to this summer place last year in an attempt to increase his sales , but this summer the horror leads appear more plentiful , making it a tougher market . |
| 26 | I may not for instance sue somebody in a court of law . |
| 27 | Printer Sharing is handled in much the same way — the owner makes a printer available , and a remote user specifies it as a network printer in the Printers control panel , attaching it to , say , LPT3 on his own machine . |
| 28 | The ‘ resentment ’ at being denied possible access to positions of respect and maybe responsibility manifests itself in a number of ways , not least in the social posture of black youth in the UK . |
| 29 | His contemporaries reported him as a master of geological field-mapping techniques and his original maps of many parts of Scotland confirm his observational skills and his ability to locate himself in the wilderness with an accuracy that can not be improved upon with aerial photographs . |
| 30 | Her GP referred her to a hospital in Watford , North London , where she underwent laser treatment to try and prevent the damage from getting any worse — but it did n't help . |