Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum mum mummy I want a straw . |
| 2 | I 've got to mention insurance , cos now you 're in the Neighbourhood Watch you get a discount on your house contents . |
| 3 | ‘ As part of the college course we took a trip to Bristol to help with an evangelistic outreach . |
| 4 | At club level I did a lot of long and triple jumping , making 14.25 metres at the latter . |
| 5 | When I 'm boat fishing I use a plain , bodied waggler , which I shot down to a quarter inch or so off the surface . |
| 6 | At an upstairs window they present a life size dummy head : firm jaw , aquiline nose , shining complexion . |
| 7 | On a table in the living room they found a letter addressed to me . |
| 8 | She is clearing away the last glasses from the vigil , and when I come into her living room she has a cloth in her hand . |
| 9 | and put it down , it , on the kitchen floor of this place , and in the , our sitting room we had a carpet it was er a carpet of David 's mother 's actually , but it covered the entire sitting room and it looked rather nice you know , because it was a big room and we also had a carpet of sorts in the bedroom . |
| 10 | When he reached an Underground station he bought a ticket without even thinking of where he might want to go . |
| 11 | All to do with the s I mean th the Dock Commission they claimed a lot of money off the Corporation I think over that cos they |
| 12 | Well , Ian Smith Ryedale , I think in the majority of views across from the ring road you have a belt of open countryside before that suburban housing . |
| 13 | Mr Beamish received the medicine unsmilingly and as I opened the car door I felt a gush of relief that the uncomfortable visit was at an end . |
| 14 | From his alpaca coat he whipped a medicine bottle of colourless fluid , flourished it significantly at Dr McNab and drank it all off . |
| 15 | In the case of my golfing year I play a lot of golf with the handicap golfer and a fair amount with those without handicaps . |
| 16 | From the fishing bag he took a scope sight and two boxes of ammunition , one of them depleted from the sighting-in that he 'd carried out in a deserted glen on the drive south . |
| 17 | I left the old Frenchman still puffing away at his pipe and returned through the village to the orchard next to Brigade H.Q I had a feeling that I would not see the French family again . |
| 18 | In supplies , for example you often have to undertake almost military type operations I witnessed a group of 150 women who planned and carried out an ambush of the enemy to requisition bread and flour and the only arms they were carrying consisted of sticks and cords , To be a nurse also requires a lot of mental equanimity and physical strength . |
| 19 | ‘ Just tell your faculty adviser you got a research grant from the DEA , and you 'll be spending the term at the American Embassy in Nicosia . ’ |
| 20 | Now you say well why do a U-turn I see no reason why because they done a few U-turns on the child benefit they done a U-turn , they picked it up and then blocked it . |
| 21 | After a pub lunch we did a bit outside the car-park mortuary and then settled down with the telephone to record some attempts to buy a coffin , one of which resulted in agreement , which was the last thing we needed at the time , although it came in very handy later . |
| 22 | And then sh like , you know how sometimes in the , an old dance routine they put a coat on the woman and everything , she 's dancing and they bring this coat towards her and she goes like that and it 's a straight jacket . |
| 23 | You will recall that during the last Executive Committee meeting we considered a proposal to create an index to help branches make use of the increasing amount of planning policy guidance which is now available . |
| 24 | Then , out of his overcoat pocket he produced a safety razor-blade , with which he sharpened the pencil he always used for his often indecipherable , cramped little scribbles — a sign , a psychiatrist later told me , of someone wanting to attract as little attention as possible , as in the case of Robert Walser . |
| 25 | So long as you got the question wrong you got a cabbage if you got it right you got a prize |
| 26 | So — to any aspiring Medau teachers we promise a challenge with hard work , tempered by the enjoyment of insight into the world of movement teaching . |
| 27 | In the duty-free shopping centre she noticed a couple of English girls buying jewellery and leather handbags , who ogled Guy with open interest . |
| 28 | In your December/January issue of Tennis World I read a letter entitled ‘ Thank you Martina ’ . |
| 29 | In analysing the relationships between particular variables in the housewife 's work situation I use a number of statistical tests , chiefly the chi-square test of significance . |
| 30 | But one of the offices in the area must have been undergoing a thorough make-over , because along with the garbage and a tangled mess of strip aluminium and ceiling tiles he found a number of office throwouts that included a desk lamp with about five yards of trailing flex . |