Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the reformers of the 1870s and 1880s believed that women would earn both a new respect , if they could eschew the frivolities of fashion , and a new freedom which would liberate them to perform a useful role in society . |
| 2 | UNESCO , who has suddenly come alive , has invited the two of them to plan an experimental city in which new technologies and new ways of living can be explored more fully than they were in the real world . |
| 3 | More touching was the sad list of names in Sasbach churchyard , each of them representing a large loss in a small community . |
| 4 | I needed to earn a bit of extra money when I went on the tour and so I became a professional wrestler in my spare time . |
| 5 | When I became a permanent presenter in Bristol , the main newsreader was Ken Rees , more recently to establish himself as a top foreign correspondent for ITN . |
| 6 | Could I make a constructive suggestion in this context of board salaries or remunerations or compensation packages or bonuses I 'm saying that in a slightly tongue in cheek way because I believe that the majority of shareholders do n't understand the differences between these concepts , as you gentlemen evidently do . |
| 7 | When I asked a Pakistani woman in her forties about this interpretation , she said : |
| 8 | I made a similar argument in chapter 1 about practical support in contemporary society . |
| 9 | In fact , I made a major decision in '84 , and followed it through in '86 . |
| 10 | The following year he beat both Sergio Casal and Emilio Sanchez in a 4–1 victory over Spain at Telford and said : ‘ I made a good start in the Cup so the first few matches will always stick in my mind . ’ |
| 11 | I , personally , always tried to avoid being drawn into any kind of union or political affairs , but in the case of the Association I made a slight concession in that I agreed to become Editor of our newsletter , which started out as a news-sheet and eventually grew into a magazine called " Coastlines " , featuring articles , reports from the cutters , poems and competitions . |
| 12 | We do n't want her thinking that you and I made a secret assignation in Piccadilly Circus . |
| 13 | I , I , I notice from the schedule that , I mean a tremendous difference in cost per person if you just add , divided the people into , which suggest the way you 're being work out on a basis of individual needs , and what the carer provides . |
| 14 | I passed a military truck in the hedge . |
| 15 | That is when I got a real bee in my bonnet about British restaurants . |
| 16 | When I left in here at the when the receivers come in I got a wee job in Centre , up the town , and I had , I could have got a job in a hosiery in but I did n't fancy travelling down there , so I took that wee job up there . |
| 17 | After a TOPS course I got a full-time job in computing and I moved to a different part of London . |
| 18 | The father moved in and I got a full-time job in another engineering company . |
| 19 | ‘ I got a sharp pain in my right arm . |
| 20 | Then one day at school I got a sharp pain in my stomach . |
| 21 | I was doing some mental arithmetic , counting up what was in my wire basket , when I got a great dig in the backside . |
| 22 | I got a nasty taste in my mouth — sort of stale like . |
| 23 | I got a little work-bench in there , and me stores of sprays and weed-killers and potting compost . |
| 24 | ‘ I got a detached retina in my right eye three weeks before I fought Ray Mercer , ’ veteran Holmes admitted . |
| 25 | Then I lifted the foot and as I explored further I found a tender area in the superficial flexor . |
| 26 | I found a felt-tip pen in the desk drawer and addressed the envelope to ‘ Mr F. MacLean ’ care of a pub I knew in Southwark where they knew me by that name . |
| 27 | When we moved out of Windrush , with reluctance , in the autumn of 1940 , I found a large flat in an old house near Stanley Park . |
| 28 | After a time , I found a little cave in the side of a hill . |
| 29 | This was a difficult doctrine to establish , particularly since it was pointed out that my own activities were not remunerated in any such way ; but nevertheless I found an impossible inconsistency in remaining an adviser to a profession that outraged this important principle . |
| 30 | I found an old coat in the flea market and cut the good bits out . |