Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1976 Charles , then 12 , spelled out his feelings by sending Raine a ‘ vile ’ letter while Diana encouraged a schoolfriend to write her prospective stepmother a poison pen letter . |
| 2 | In being bred intensively for colours and scents , so much vigour is often lost that in order to realize its full potential a plant needs to have the much more vigorous upthrust of a ‘ wild ’ rootstock pushed into it . |
| 3 | Well , it 's what you might call clerkin' work , writin' letters for business firms at 'ome , which do n't come too welcome to an active man like 'im , so 'e likes to get out as much as 'e can to give 'is gammy leg a walk . |
| 4 | ‘ But , ’ asked Charles , ‘ It 's going to curtail her theatrical career a bit , is n't it ? ’ |
| 5 | Erm I 'm half and half I I I go along with Angela in the main that the the kids in , generally speaking the kids that I 've talked to do n't want to put their own input a lot of them do n't want to because , as Angela says , they can not find the appropriate words and some of the others just write some some stuff that I would look at |
| 6 | The idea was to put him in it from time to time to give his gammy leg a rest . |
| 7 | BRIAN MARWOOD is set to give his fading career a lift by joining First Division strugglers Luton Town . |
| 8 | Erwin is aiming to do his home-town club a favour by beating Glentoran at Inver Park next week — a result which could help smooth Ballymena 's path into the Gold Cup quarter-finals . |
| 9 | Would you like to give your new Mummy a kiss ? ’ |
| 10 | We do n't want to give our golden goose a head-start . |
| 11 | 12.10 : Stopped at Petrol Station to give our old mini-bus a drink and some air . |
| 12 | I could have gone to my own office in Whitehall , but I was due to see Sir Edmund Pusey in the evening , and I did n't want to risk running into him before I 'd managed to clear my own mind a bit . |
| 13 | On her return to Austria , she was careful to keep her new hobby a secret from her parents , who ‘ would not have considered it at all a proper pastime for a young girl ’ . |
| 14 | ) In April 1190 Mozart was hoping for another court appointment under the new emperor , Leopold II , and he implored Puchberg to keep his financial disarray a secret , believing that if it were publicly known it would damage his chances of success . |
| 15 | He did not conspire against the regime , but in February 1659 he and other London republicans presented Richard Cromwell 's Parliament with the same subversive petition that had led Oliver Cromwell to dissolve his last Parliament a year earlier . |
| 16 | ‘ The other is for Rachel , Flo 's wife in South Africa , because I knew he would n't get round to doing it himself and I thought she 'd like to be able to show their little daughter a picture of her father doing something responsible and public-spirited for a change . ’ |
| 17 | Nobbs also claims to have told his old mate Peter Tinniswood to make his first novel a comedy ; the result was A Touch Of Daniel , which later became the equally God-like I Did n't Know You Cared telly series . |
| 18 | In Butler the seller lost the battle of the forms because he was careless and failed to make his last document a counter-offer instead of an acceptance . |