Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solicitors will not need to be reminded that for them to continue to act despite a conflict of interest is a breach of their duty to the court . |
| 2 | Both of them appear to suffer from a form of mental myopia in imagining the consequences of such proposals , and I am not here referring only to Mill-type consequences of harm brought about by unwise decisions . |
| 3 | Second , having set up syntagmatic units , we shall observe that many of them appear to operate in a variety of grammatical environments , and we shall have to ask ourselves whether some differences of grammatical usage of a particular form do not merit recognition as separate lexical items . |
| 4 | Erm , the executive are accepting all these motions but on a couple of them want to put in a speaker with a statement and er after twenty one will to put that statement to the C E C. I now call composite twenty abolition of Wages Councils South Western Region to move , G M B Scotland to second . |
| 5 | He 's not the kind of person any of them want to have as a friend . |
| 6 | And at me let fly with a ringing broadside . |
| 7 | As a newcomer to such work , I became involved through a meeting with Johanna Carrie . |
| 8 | Life became so stressful that when I was making The Power Game the doctor put me on Mogadon and I became hooked for a while . |
| 9 | When I asked to speak for a moment with Miss Lavenza , a manservant showed me into a living-room and asked me to wait . |
| 10 | ‘ Nor do I want to indulge in a post-mortem — although I suppose it 's an appropriate description , if the thing between us is now dead . ’ |
| 11 | I mean looking at a book and see the distance between , in there they give you the distance between Leeds , Ipswich , Leicester and Scotland and then you come to kilometres and |
| 12 | It has n't all been smooth running of course , I mean working in a parliament with eighty separate national political delegations , working in t nine languages , I have to admit we 've made the odd slip . |
| 13 | I mean to start as a group home , well I mean it , of all the places , A it 's not like an ordinary home |
| 14 | I do n't have time to play but , I mean to play in a concert band or anything but I might go and knock about with it for a while . |
| 15 | I think he must be gay , I mean going into a monastery and not having anything to do with women and wearing a cravat |
| 16 | But if I insist on forcing the spontaneous towards an end which I already deem rational , I remain imprisoned within a circle of old concepts , reason goes on doing the same kind of sums , there can be no novelty except the discovery of unnoticed implications of the familiar . |
| 17 | Jamie and I got pushed about a bit and nearly fell down a couple of times , but we survived through to the end of the night without any scrapes . |
| 18 | so we started called her lip , but that happened before I got there so , as I got there it just like , as I joined got in with the regulars it started to peter out a bit , but I got fooled with a couple of times I thought they were taking the piss , alright Lynn how you doing , you know , still . |
| 19 | P. A. I got called as a witness in a motoring case , and it came up when I was on nights and I had to get up and call in the solicitor . |
| 20 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
| 21 | I got bitten by a rat . |
| 22 | ‘ I got to know after a time that he ad-libbed because he got bored with his lines . |
| 23 | ‘ Last time I got booed by a lot of people was in '82 , but this year I was booed a couple of times . |
| 24 | I got talking to a Faber editor I knew slightly . |
| 25 | ‘ I hate to sound like a detective , but there was a puddle outside the front gate and only one new set of tyre-marks between the Saturday night and the Sunday night . |
| 26 | I use it normally on a clean setting , but if I want distortion I tend to go through a BOSS Turbo Overdrive pedal and then into the Rock Box . |
| 27 | No , I tend to break into a crate of Nettles Old Fester . |
| 28 | The answer I tend to get off a lot of places is that I have to wait for twelve years |
| 29 | Will I need to invest in a Nitragon filter ? |
| 30 | Do I need to go to a lawyer ? |