Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A deaf therapist said : ‘ They do n't see me as a health professional who knows it all , but who does n't really understand ; they see me as a disabled person . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Timothy 's telling me about a gypsy girl he and Andrew Manners met today . |
| 3 | So if you got ta have someone on a skiing accident they 've got ta be helicopter lifted off you 'll end up with thousand , four hundred thousand |
| 4 | I tell them of a babysitting job I had when I was 12 . |
| 5 | You remind me of a cocker spaniel I once owned . ’ |
| 6 | If you reduce the seating capacity below 12 then you will be liable for 10% car tax and repaying the 15% VAT which as a business user you have reclaimed , as in the UK the 12 seater is classed as a commercial vehicle and the 10 seater is not . |
| 7 | ‘ I withdraw my objection , which as a warp pilot I felt bound to register . ’ |
| 8 | In the later 1650s , for example , Oliver Cromwell came to see himself as a second Moses who , having led his people out of the Egyptian slavery of Laudianism and through the Red Sea of civil war , was now struggling to bring them towards the Promised Land . |
| 9 | Williams , a right-wing , self-made multimillionaire with interests in oil , telecommunications and ranching , who had never before held elected office , presented himself as a Texan cowboy who was " as comfortable on the back of a horse as … in a corporate board room " . |
| 10 | ‘ Damnation ’ will approach his target and introduce himself with an opening line which usually goes something like , ‘ Hi . |
| 11 | Somebody with a £100,000 portfolio who deals £5,000-£10,000 worth of stock at a time will be protected from the worst stocks , doubly so if he is lucky enough to be in the hands of a dealer with a longer-term commitment to his profession than average . |
| 12 | very pale , if you saw somebody in a hospital bed who 'd just suffered shock , they 'd be the same colour as the sheet they 're lying on their face is absolutely white , okay , very , very pale , very cold and very clammy , now supposing the doctor asks you why are they cold and clammy ? |
| 13 | Cornelius announced himself to a desk clerk who wore a badge saying , ‘ Hello my name is Danny ’ . |
| 14 | If you have a career open to you in a family business you would probably be well advised to enter it ; and in that case there is no point in obtaining a professional qualification . |
| 15 | And we 'd shut them out shunt them out and then we 'd collect the two coaches and take them over to the main yard , and put them under a cleaning platform you see for the cleaners . |
| 16 | While they were thinking this one out I served them with a summer casserole which Swire Sugden demolished and Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke toyed with absentmindedly . |
| 17 | The lawful carrying of something like a car jack which is used to cause injury on the spur of the moment does not necessarily make it an offensive weapon ( R. v. |
| 18 | And Jesus said that God 's dominion , the rule of Heaven , is something like a mustard seed which starts out tiny and ends up big . |
| 19 | If a WC is blocked , a large sink plunger may work ( do n't use one with a metal flange which could damage the pan ) , provided it has a long handle ; alternatively , use a length of drain rod fitted with a rubber disc . |
| 20 | Michael Atherton ( 37 ) , and especially Chris Lewis ( 49 ) , also played their part in stands of 58 and 93 respectively with Hick as England tried to salvage something from a Test series they have already lost 2-0 . |
| 21 | Other gaffes include one from an Acapulco hotel which states : ‘ The manager has personally passed all the water served here . ’ |
| 22 | Even today I still ca n't find one in a music store which fits my finger . |
| 23 | In fact , the whole thing is certain to be fully explained in many textbooks , for there is nothing in an undergraduate course which has not had the attention of textbook writers . |
| 24 | But when they saw Paul Holloway walking towards them in a Bournemouth park they began shouting that he looked like Boris Becker and began jostling him . |
| 25 | Then he invited me to a gypsy baptism which was to be held that night in the suburb of Vallecas . |
| 26 | The ‘ aye dein' ’ character was the tone of voice from behind me on a bus run which was supposed to be a ‘ Mystery Tour ’ but he gave a detailed commentary on the whole journey . |
| 27 | ‘ He put me on an iron tonic which bucked me a little . |
| 28 | THIEVES stole drugs from a doctor 's surgery and took them to a Middlesbrough man who could identify them with a handbook , a court heard . |
| 29 | Shortly before his death he complained with much justification that his Belgian subjects were refusing to receive from him as a gift benefits which the French were at the same moment extorting from Louis XVI by a great upheaval . |
| 30 | He reminded her of a mathematics mistress who had taught her at school . |