Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pattern is forming — a str–tegy , her strategy — her acting , me reacting like a frog 's hind leg ! |
| 2 | Those things do n't sound fearsome — till you see them used on a man 's body . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah , course I mean as a bat er pitched a bat on this is a beau a beauty but are there are rough spots which you 've helping the slow left arm , or help any spinner . |
| 4 | In that well yeah I mean in a sense er that 's right because if you think about it , in eighteen in eighteen fifteen er the great powers stayed in existence mainly because of a fear of a of of fear of France . |
| 5 | b. goes to his goes to a club + has a drink talks to the barman + then he starts dancing with a beautiful girl long black hair + has a good time + |
| 6 | and woman sitting in the living room … the man 's bored goes to the window looks out the window … and goes out + goes to his goes to a club + has a drink talks to the barman |
| 7 | I stopped at a stationer 's and ordered two reams of Devon Valley Thin , two black ribbons to fit Toby 's portable , and a box of the best carbon papers . |
| 8 | I remember I looked at the pile of Billy 's goods and chattels which were supposed to fit inside a twelve-by-six-foot room and saying : ‘ I came with a Sainsbury 's carrier — and I had trouble filling that . ’ |
| 9 | When Granpa asked me what I wanted for my fifteenth birthday I replied without a moment 's hesitation , ‘ My own barrow , ’ and added that I 'd nearly saved enough to get one . |
| 10 | On the other hand , there was something unbeatably creepy about the time I walked into a man 's bathroom at the very beginning of an affair and saw a bottle of ‘ scruffing lotion ’ by his basin . |
| 11 | When the break in the dull , rainy weather came I decided on a day 's search of the river foreshore . |
| 12 | ‘ I feel like a giant 's yo-yo — as if there 's someone up there just dangling me on a string . |
| 13 | ‘ I looked for a marshall 's post , but the guy 's glove prevented him pulling out the safety pin in the extinguisher and I had to get out of the car and do it for him ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I go into a hairdresser 's hoping that a new me will emerge , ’ said Barbara Scott , a mother of three who works part-time . |
| 15 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 16 | To distract myself , I went into a draper 's and bought a pair of knitting needles , a large supply of soft yellow wool and some nice simple patterns . |
| 17 | Following these up , I went into a chemist 's shop , introduced myself to the tall lady assistant and said that I was a friend of her future husband 's brother . |
| 18 | Well I went through a ship 's bridge , broke the wheel up top , I did , cos you , at that time , see how things improve all the time , now jib and all that is , that 's thirty five feet long . |
| 19 | Erm and I had to think up something that I do as a hobby er to teach other people . |
| 20 | ‘ If you understand me so well you 'll know what I think of a man 's opinions . ’ |
| 21 | I think for a day 's er work it 's worth assessing the three top people identified with the six outside people that I 've identified who are you know in the next division down to see how they compare . |
| 22 | Well there were the jobs tha that I mentioned really , production manager or assistant director and now he would have been quite happy I know to have done those , because I remember talking about it you know er and he would have been very good at either of them , but erm er he he did n't get well he was a slightly abrasive man , he he he his erm I I think in a way erm he was a director who could who was not really a very good film director , he he could get things done very quickly and that 's why he worked for bash , bash , bash getting through everything quickly . |
| 23 | I learned from a friend 's porno mag that men can buy |
| 24 | yes , and I live in a pensioner 's house , furthest away from the shopping centre and I 've got to take a taxi of one pound forty a day to shop |
| 25 | I practise as a ship 's doctor . |
| 26 | I do n't act like a man but I play in a man 's world . |
| 27 | I come from a learners ' perspective , a needs ' perspective , and I do n't believe that anybody has a God-given right to make those programmes with all these resources without thinking about it that way . |
| 28 | oh I can assure you I work , I work in a women 's unit and I can assure you its still frowned on by lots of people . |
| 29 | I was seven and I was I went to a neighbour 's house and as it happened I was looking through the blooming window when the funeral went past so I was no better off you know . |
| 30 | Please could I ask for a moment 's silence and look to the north er we wil where we will have a dedication fly past by A-Tens of the Eighty-First Tactical Fighter Wing . |