Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I carried out a survey of undergraduates and their use of books at Sheffield University I needed a sample of all undergraduates in the university during the academic year of the study.8 It was quite a revelation , talking to the Assistant Registrar in charge of records , to discover how difficult it was to define a ‘ student ’ for my purposes . |
| 2 | Mum mum mummy I want a straw . |
| 3 | I 've got to mention insurance , cos now you 're in the Neighbourhood Watch you get a discount on your house contents . |
| 4 | ‘ As part of the college course we took a trip to Bristol to help with an evangelistic outreach . |
| 5 | At club level I did a lot of long and triple jumping , making 14.25 metres at the latter . |
| 6 | When I was a student at Kuwait University we had a lot of lectures , political lectures . |
| 7 | When I 'm boat fishing I use a plain , bodied waggler , which I shot down to a quarter inch or so off the surface . |
| 8 | At an upstairs window they present a life size dummy head : firm jaw , aquiline nose , shining complexion . |
| 9 | On the Saturday evening they attended a screenplay reading at a bookshop on Camdem High Street . |
| 10 | On a table in the living room they found a letter addressed to me . |
| 11 | She is clearing away the last glasses from the vigil , and when I come into her living room she has a cloth in her hand . |
| 12 | and put it down , it , on the kitchen floor of this place , and in the , our sitting room we had a carpet it was er a carpet of David 's mother 's actually , but it covered the entire sitting room and it looked rather nice you know , because it was a big room and we also had a carpet of sorts in the bedroom . |
| 13 | As a matter of fact , before I left on that Friday evening I bought a painting from her — The Blind Gypsy — for my mother 's birthday . ’ |
| 14 | But every night they have every Saturday night they have a cabaret on and tonight it 's Renee and Renata . |
| 15 | When he reached an Underground station he bought a ticket without even thinking of where he might want to go . |
| 16 | All to do with the s I mean th the Dock Commission they claimed a lot of money off the Corporation I think over that cos they |
| 17 | And then I began to become very worried about it and it just happened by chance that one Friday morning I heard a programme on Radio Brighton , and it was Doctor Wisbey speaking about dyslexia , and it dawned on me immediately that my son was dyslexia . |
| 18 | Well , Ian Smith Ryedale , I think in the majority of views across from the ring road you have a belt of open countryside before that suburban housing . |
| 19 | Mr Beamish received the medicine unsmilingly and as I opened the car door I felt a gush of relief that the uncomfortable visit was at an end . |
| 20 | From his alpaca coat he whipped a medicine bottle of colourless fluid , flourished it significantly at Dr McNab and drank it all off . |
| 21 | In the case of my golfing year I play a lot of golf with the handicap golfer and a fair amount with those without handicaps . |
| 22 | From the fishing bag he took a scope sight and two boxes of ammunition , one of them depleted from the sighting-in that he 'd carried out in a deserted glen on the drive south . |
| 23 | I left the old Frenchman still puffing away at his pipe and returned through the village to the orchard next to Brigade H.Q I had a feeling that I would not see the French family again . |
| 24 | After visiting the Hayward Gallery I spent a half-hour just gazing along the river line , the historic buildings sharp in the clear , cold , sunny air . |
| 25 | On the way back over the lines west we saw a lot of traffic with trains going to Oxford , coal to Didcot power station , 125 's to the West Country and three class 37 's up and down with nowhere to go . |
| 26 | ‘ Just tell your faculty adviser you got a research grant from the DEA , and you 'll be spending the term at the American Embassy in Nicosia . ’ |
| 27 | Now you say well why do a U-turn I see no reason why because they done a few U-turns on the child benefit they done a U-turn , they picked it up and then blocked it . |
| 28 | After a pub lunch we did a bit outside the car-park mortuary and then settled down with the telephone to record some attempts to buy a coffin , one of which resulted in agreement , which was the last thing we needed at the time , although it came in very handy later . |
| 29 | And then sh like , you know how sometimes in the , an old dance routine they put a coat on the woman and everything , she 's dancing and they bring this coat towards her and she goes like that and it 's a straight jacket . |
| 30 | You will recall that during the last Executive Committee meeting we considered a proposal to create an index to help branches make use of the increasing amount of planning policy guidance which is now available . |