Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 2 | A writer who went on a police-escorted tour of Los Angeles 's red light districts to help him with an alleged magazine article is now wanted on suspicion of strangling three prostitutes in the city , police said yesterday . |
| 3 | This charity , sponsored by all the water authorities , aims to bore wells in Third World countries to supply them with an uncontaminated source of water . |
| 4 | Of course this is tricky if you 're driving , but ask your passengers to distract you with an Ossianic ballad to keep you from thinking about the importance of Santa Claus Land and The Happy Haggis takeaway to our great Scottish heritage . |
| 5 | There were plans to turn it into an opencast mine , but now the Forestry Commission , which administers the Forest from its headquarters in Coleford , has withdrawn its permisssion for British Coal to mine there , deciding instead to start re-planting trees . |
| 6 | Suddenly , cheekily she spun round in front of him , mocking his attempts to turn her into an Anglo-Irish lady . |
| 7 | Her employers had been in general the aspiring mothers of young daughters of tradesmen — the honest working citizens whom her father would have disparagingly stigmatised as ‘ cits ’ — hoping that a little of Theda 's quality might rub off on their uncouth girls to help them to an advantageous marriage . |