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Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	Teesside Crown Court was told Ninham had offered to give the boys money for fireworks and encouraged them to go for a walk with him and his dog .
2	You do n't honestly expect me to agree to a statement like that , do you ? ’ he snapped violently .
3	The glass before them became like a mirror for the briefest time but it was a distorting , ghost-train mirror , more shadow than substance-with his mind adding hallucinatory details to the little that he could see .
4	Most of them arose as a result of an all-Russian phenomenon in 1922 — the lack of co-ordination and exchange of information between the centre and the localities , together with nonchalant neglect of provincial problems so long as they did not affect central political issues .
5	Everyone sits in a circle with one child , possibly the birthday girl , being ‘ Sleeping Beauty ’ in the middle blindfolded .
6	Everyone sits in a circle with one person sitting blindfolded in the middle .
7	Everyone sits in a circle with an unbreakable plate in the centre .
8	She always wore a flowered cotton overall and her thin gingery hair framed a face that made me think of a martyr in search of grace .
9	Cut a slice off the bottom of each pear to enable them to sit in a dish without falling over , and place in an ovenproof dish well spaced out .
10	‘ Well , perhaps you might allow me to go for a walk from time to time , instead of waiting around in the servants ’ hall .
11	They ate nothing themselves , but watched me eat with a sort of respectful deference which made me uneasy , it being , I felt , inappropriate and therefore dangerous .
12	With someone who 's not I 'd try and get them to wait for a couple of days and then if they would n't I 'd go through the and get them it today .
13	As soon as the song finished she grabbed her cousin and the two of them sank into a heap on the floor , hiding their faces and giggling .
14	Two of , two of them departed for a period of six months .
15	In A.D. 318 , the then Bishop of Rome ( now known as Pope Sylvester ) is said to have met personally with eight Desposyni leaders — each of whom presided over a branch of the Church — at the Lateran Palace .
16	On reaching the lockers he found the area around them occupied by a crowd of students , their rucksacks and kitbags strewn across the unswept floor .
17	Old Stevenson would go spare if he knew , and I 'm not certain whether he 'd try and get me moved as a danger to junior staff , or you moved as a wicked woman .
18	Heat the frankfurters by leaving them to stand in a pan of water that has just boiled for about 5 minutes .
19	To his list we could add attorneys and even local receivers of taxes , six of whom appear in a list of country bankers drawn up in 1784 .
20	Everyone lives in a world of such meanings ’ .
21	actually it 's a bit boring down there now but they , they had to put my , my explanation of the price of petrol er down , there 's nowhere to thing , cos th the last time I was down there I asked for a pint of bitter and this guy bought it me and said and I wanted two pound thirty or something .
22	They looked at me apprehensively when I asked for a drink of cider or wine .
23	The last time I preached on the New Age before writing this chapter , I asked for a show of hands from those who had heard of it .
24	I asked for a report on this tragic case this morning .
25	‘ I asked for a biography of a dead scientist , not a list of missile sites . ’
26	I applied for a job on Query and got it .
27	I applied for a job at Anglia as a news reporter .
28	No because , I applied for a lot of jobs
29	I applied for a place at the Methodist Institution training college in London — and have heard I have been accepted . ’
30	But as a general principle the right of animals to be animals , to live in their space on God 's good earth , is a moral principle I commend as a rule of thumb .