Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not erm , I 'm not going to be in a situation to record all my chat anyway , I do n't think , because of the erm , the amount of it , when I 'm running a course I do an awful lot of chatting during the day . |
| 2 | An opportunity I believe an ambitious person like yourself will find too good to resist . ’ |
| 3 | After sticking the hook through a crust I make an experimental cast across the river , well away from the swim , choosing a dock leaf as my target on the far bank . |
| 4 | ‘ And when I 'd parked the car I had an overwhelming urge to kiss you . ’ |
| 5 | When I started discussions with the social services department I had an open mind about the service to be delivered . |
| 6 | The ships had some 10 miles to go ; the MLs had used their extra fuel and filled the spare tanks with seawater as they stole into the estuary in two columns , headed by MGB 314 : These motorboats are difficult to handle at slow speed and Campbeltown was sluggish , but at speed she drew an extra foot aft and every inch counted as she came towards the mud . |
| 7 | Starting from the theory of job search we specify an estimable model which is derived under a particular assumption regarding the dynamic behaviour of the unemployed individual . |
| 8 | So on the rare occasions they did report themselves in a State of Readiness they knew an Agile Blade was likely . |
| 9 | In practice it involved an enormous amount of administration also . |
| 10 | The area had been on the periphery of the Kandyan Kingdom , and in the early years of British rule it remained an impoverished backwater . |
| 11 | ‘ By the indefatigable exertions of honest industry he acquired an ample fortune which his large but discriminating generosity rendered serviceable to the encouragement of virtue , by diffusion of knowledge and the relief of the afflicted … . ’ |
| 12 | under him , yet in practice he appointed an excessive number of them ; he compelled them to pay for their appointments , and in some cases to make annual payments to him afterwards . |
| 13 | As a result I took no part in organized college sport , though despite lack of skill I enjoyed an occasional game of squash . |
| 14 | As a child I kept an unending diary ; as a student in Louisiana I wrote some tv news scripts ( and damaged the teleprompt during a live transmission , which put an end to that little job ) ; back home I produced beautifully worded advertisements for a local free paper . |
| 15 | For a second she knew an intense longing to flee — to get a million miles away from this place and everyone in it . |
| 16 | At home we have an impressive library of books , carefully selected to give our children the widest possible view of life : black families , single fathers , working mothers , girls rescuing the western world single-handed and boys moping in corners because they long for a doll . |
| 17 | In return we offer an attractive benefits package that includes an excellent pension scheme , free life insurance , 28 days annual leave , and an interest free season ticket loan . |
| 18 | In Hungarian PEN we have an uphill struggle to try to promote those Hungarian writers who are worth promoting , but so many of them travel badly in translation . |
| 19 | If they report to the same boss they have an organizational bond ; if they are in different departments they have an organizational barrier . |
| 20 | If they report to the same boss they have an organizational bond ; if they are in different departments they have an organizational barrier . |
| 21 | In his first scene he established an unshakeable authority , which , Charles knew , was bound to strengthen the total collapse of the character in the second act . |
| 22 | No wonder he got an electric jolt . |
| 23 | While in that capacity he devised an ingenious method of casting railway chairs , and also designed the wrought-iron roof of the New Street Station in Birmingham , which with a span of 211 feet was the largest iron roof at the time of its completion . |
| 24 | One day , however , walking by the seashore he met an elderly Christian who told him about the Hebrew prophets , undermined his naïve confidence in the moral guidance of philosophers , and converted him to Christianity . |
| 25 | For a small village it has an absolute wealth of historic treasures and one most impressive modern innovation — Alvingham Pottery . |
| 26 | Like Malvern Mill it had an overshot wheel , of 12 feet in diameter , and although this no longer exists , traces of the machinery do . |
| 27 | In place of orthodox intercourse he became an addicted masturbator indulging in ‘ a suicide committed daily ’ . |
| 28 | Although Taylor was carrying out his research at the beginning of the century and despite the fact that his conclusions did not meet with the universal approval of either the workers or the management he left an important legacy which later theorists built upon : |
| 29 | Once the system has accepted an in put from the tablet it gives an acknowledging Beep from the computer and prompts for the next command to execute the function . |
| 30 | In winter it makes an early morning crossing , returning in the late afternoon and allowing some six hours 2. shore in Porto Santo . |