Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And your setting will be even more integrated into your book than was the setting in the sort of story I have called a backgrounder . |
| 2 | ‘ When I made Midnight Express I had to play a man who was in a permanent messed-up state . |
| 3 | I had agreed to this in case I had to have a Caesarian . |
| 4 | If there 's erm For instance I 've had a situation where on a medical practice booklet because we er hand back a hundred pound for every full page that we we gain in the medical practice booklet , er it 's an encouragement for if we 're just a quarter of a half page short , er for the practice to say you know we 'll get for another hundred quid we 'd all we need to do is make a couple of phone calls and threaten erm one or two of our patients . |
| 5 | Chairman I do have a couple of questions , I do have a couple of questions if I may . |
| 6 | Er Chairman I want to make a point relative , very quick point relative to the northern bypass so Mr said that officers are proceeding with the preparation of possible routes , will you undertake that er members be er , er advised of er these discussions before it reaches committee stage ? |
| 7 | The prints were about my own size , 6½ and my own guess for what it is worth , since , as a cadet I did own a pair of hob-nails , is that my own almost religious love of country railways had revealed a kind of secular stigmatic effect . |
| 8 | With some difficulty I managed to get a permit to travel from Parma in a bus which went up into the hills to Lagrimone ; once there , I would walk to the house of a Signor Ugolotti , some distance from the village . |
| 9 | If it were not for the fact that he was one of the favourites you 'd have been delighted but as a Gold Cup winner I had to feel a bit disappointed . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course I 've got a plan , and you 'll see what it is in a few moments , if you 're too stupid to guess before that — ’ They swung round a bend and he swore suddenly and loudly . |
| 11 | ‘ Of course I 've got a minute — what the bloody hell d' you think I 'm doing here at this time of night ? ’ |
| 12 | Of course I 've got a family ! |
| 13 | For my additional assessment I had to plan a facility for a chosen client group . |
| 14 | At university I chanced to meet a detective sergeant who had been in the Durham drug squad outside the Sociology building in New Elvet , Durham city . |
| 15 | In the struggle I had lost a scarf I valued but never went back for it . |
| 16 | I went to the Maly Opera Theatre that night and saw Verdi 's Otello , and with the voices still occupying my mind I decided to take a subway down the Nevsky and have a drink at the Astoria . |
| 17 | In that cell I 've got a formula , just multiply the number above by the number of the left . |
| 18 | It 's at this point nearing the end of my open study I 've realised a connection between the four characters I have just compared . |
| 19 | Since John 's abduction I had kept a diary , hoping somehow that I could capture the time John was missing , to keep things from fading so that I could share them with him when he came back . |
| 20 | And I wanted a particular tape , oh I know it was a tape I 'd heard a coach driver using on the er on a coach trip that I was on so I got to know what it was erm and er I went round the usual shops no joy |
| 21 | For short-line fishing I like to have a line with some stretch ; it complements the shock-absorber effect of the rod . |
| 22 | At the beginning of the riot I went to take a picture of this one anarchist and he whacked me with a stick really hard . |
| 23 | Mummy I 've got a police one |
| 24 | and that 's where the back door is , in the other bedroom you 've got a ventilator you know but it 's not actually facing into the bedroom , it 's facing outwards towards the bathroom , you know and the stairs |
| 25 | Yeah well we 've got a job to do if you 're a soldier you 've got a job to do okay , you 've got a bit of training , you 've got a job to do |
| 26 | To sit down in a cafe you had to buy a cup of tea . |
| 27 | Well yeah I mean bear in mind bear in mind you 've got a week 's notice to put one together . |
| 28 | Well I do n't know until the , when it comes to college you 've got a hand one |
| 29 | ‘ Have you finished ? ’ they ask as you lie gasping , and when they switch on the light you expect to see a sign over the bed , NOW WASH YOUR HANDS . |
| 30 | To line the sides of the cake tin you need to cut a strip of paper ( or two , for double thickness ) , as long as the circumference of the tin — allowing a little for overlap — and about 1cm ( ½inch ) wider than its depth . |