Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] a [noun sg] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 2 | Get that splendid girl of yours to give me a date or two and I 'll see if we can fix something up fairly promptly . ’ |
| 3 | I 'll make a good job of it ; enough to put me a county or two away . ’ |
| 4 | Often the farmers ' produce was subsidised to give him a living whilst another subsidy on the food in the shops kept prices artificially low — so wages could be pegged too . |
| 5 | I offered to give him a game or two if he needed the practice but , as he soon told me , snooker training is a lot more complicated than that nowadays . |
| 6 | When they had got into bed , it was Toby 's custom to read them a chapter or two of a book — the school had a tattered library of elderly boys ' books , most of them left behind by ex-pupils . |
| 7 | The likelihood is I 'm going to send him a catalogue and some , you know , a , a , a letter . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've overheard the Headmaster saying he would like to teach me a thing or two . ’ |
| 9 | I 'll keep the coffee hot and try to save you a biscuit or two . |
| 10 | Oh , I can see I 'll have to teach you a thing or two about the Royal Navy . ’ |
| 11 | And even then she managed to land one blow on the side of his head , to get her teeth , albeit briefly and not very deep , into his shoulder , to kick him a time or two although her bare feet fell short , each time , of a vital spot . |
| 12 | What he really needs is to have some blond streaks to lift it a shade or two . ’ |
| 13 | There are numerous accounts from researchers or trainers who start their contact with dolphins thinking they will teach a dolphin how to communicate with humans , and end up wondering it in Fact the dolphin has been trying to teach us a thing or two about communicating with them . |
| 14 | Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two . |