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

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1 He estimates that an executive sous-chef working in a top London restaurant or hotel would be earning between £25,000 and £27,000 , whereas a head chef in contract catering at a director 's dining room , for example , would be doing very well to earn £20,000 .
2 But excitement turned to horror when the trail led to a woman 's remains in a shallow grave .
3 By now the rock looks like a butcher 's shop , bloody with tattered flesh and strewn limbs , and the woman like a butchered carcass .
4 You get one video and what at first glance looks like a child 's painting book .
5 It 's thought that immediately after orgasm , a sedative chemical floods through a man 's brain — making him very sleepy , unless he fights against it .
6 When Pound in an early Canto includes among a hero 's conversational topics
7 The recovery of a piece engraved with a horse 's head from the reindeer-hunters ' station of Meiendorf , north-east of Hamburg , shows indeed that this began during the final stage of the Ice Age .
8 They make oral sex safer because if placed over the vulva , they prevent HIV transmission through infected vaginal juices or menstrual blood getting into a partner 's mouth — particularly if your partner has bleeding gums , mouth ulcers or cuts .
9 Its croak sounds like a smoker 's cough .
10 If a union complains to an industrial tribunal of failure by the employer to consult , the employer may be liable for a compensation award of up to two weeks ' pay per employee affected with a week 's salary being limited to £184 .
11 Batteries were charged by native power turning a four-foot wooden wheel geared to a car 's generator , a minor miracle of improvisation designed by Sousa Santos .
12 My mother , neat and slim as ever , ploughed crunchingly into the loaf-sized meringue cream cake like a polar bear breaking into a seal 's den .
13 The Bodegraven docked to a hero 's welcome .
14 Our analysis is based on a new lifting surface model which applies the classical aerodynamic solution of the forces acting on a low aspect ratio delta wing to assess the lift and drag associated with a bird 's tail .
15 There were some hill-walkers with ice-axes coming towards us from the other side of the hill , and I was trying to look as though I meant to come hill-walking dressed like a hairdresser 's receptionist .
16 The research team referred to in the follow-on milk ad took it as an established fact and were interested in finding out what effect this minimal rise in blood loss had on a baby 's iron levels .
17 Mansion House constable , a feeble old man whom the Lord Mayor suggests as a Catholic 's defence against the Gordon rioters ( see GORDON , LORD GEORGE ) .
18 An attempt to interfere with a Member 's freedom of action .
19 As he watched his enemy climb into a teacher 's car to be driven to the dentist , Richard felt agitated by a mixture of anger , fear and pleasure .
20 ‘ You could n't have had a golf course made for a man 's game more than that golf course for John Daly , ’ observed the man who has won more Masters than anyone , six all told and now playing his 34th in succession .
21 I feel my heart beat like a boy 's
22 The problem with the conclusions in both sets of experiments is that they are based on the assumption that we can infer when an experience occurs from a subject 's verbal report .
23 He stood on the steps outside the building , tattered cloak flapping like a scarecrow 's nightshirt , and signalled to me .
24 In addition to this he favoured a condom made from a sheep 's intestine and a collection of two-ounce gold balls which seemingly brought security and immense satisfaction to his partners .
25 A handbell in the Bishop 's fist clanged like a ship 's bell .
26 If the final grade is largely determined by course-work marks , how are you to mark a piece of work completed in a pupil 's first term of his introduction to a subject , compared with what he can do after five or six terms ?
27 Section 1(2) of the Act requires the court to have particular regard to the general principle that any delay in determining a question relating to a child 's upbringing is likely to prejudice the child 's welfare .
28 ( a ) The welfare principle Under s1(1) of the Act the child 's welfare must be the court 's paramount consideration when it determines any question relating to a child 's upbringing .
29 ( d ) Avoidance of delay Section 1(2) requires the court to have regard to the general principle that any delay in determining any question relating to a child 's upbringing is likely to prejudice the child 's welfare .
30 He or she will not be responsible for hearing appeals on matters of law relating to a person 's tax liabilities , or for property valuation appeals ; those will continue to be the responsibility of the independent general and special commissioners for tax and the relevant tribunals for valuation matters .
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