Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 18 August it met with the Health Authority 's officials and asked them to conduct a public health survey which it would pay for , mainly to reassure the public that , although the EC limits for aluminium had been exceeded over 500 times , and those for sulphate , copper , zinc and lead had also been broken , there was no long-term harm . |
| 2 | One of them frisks a large steel ashtray and hands a roach to another . |
| 3 | Malatie and her husband were prepared to make sacrifices so that their children might get a decent education : they were paying for two of them to attend a special boarding school for Harijans . |
| 4 | The way the police deal with them is brutal violence — making them swallow a complete glue bag , torturing them , burning out their eyes , cutting out their tongues and their ears . |
| 5 | The family doctor advised them to try a well-known rehabilitation unit , not realizing that it specialized in orthopaedic rather than neurological cases . |
| 6 | When banks withdraw funds , the Bank of England relieves the resulting discount market shortage at that rate of interest which it thinks appropriate , nudging rates upwards perhaps to reduce the demand for bank lending or lowering them to counteract a rising exchange rate . |
| 7 | [ Finally as we have mentioned before it is now necessary for me to obtain a Corporate Finance Engagement Letter and we enclose two copies of our standard letter . |
| 8 | That part of a social policy course that is concerned with describing policies and the institutions responsible for them has a clear face value to the social policy ‘ practitioner ’ . |
| 9 | Each of them has a large leather money bag . |
| 10 | I became a total bird addict . |
| 11 | I think that er one of the things that we had to examine at national level er and this was done erm after I became a full time officer , erm there 'd usually be a procedure in the national agreement er whereby first of all if we registered failure to agree at domestic level , erm with the management , the next stage was to draw in the district secretary . |
| 12 | They when I when I became a full time employer er a full time employee with the union it was all more or less small bakeries . |
| 13 | Erm in the nineteen fifties and right up until I became a full time official , erm there was generated an opinion that if companies were financially well off , due to the effort of the employees , then there was some formal entitlement for employees in these particular undertakings , to put forward a separate claim at domestic level , to , to enhance their pay . |
| 14 | Then that I got that book back when I became a full time official it was still in the still in the office . |
| 15 | My offending started when I became a habitual glue sniffer at the age of 12 and I began stealing to finance it . ’ |
| 16 | For most of my stillwater legering , except for carp , I favour a fixed paternoster rig . |
| 17 | Instead , he offered a pair of trust-mes : ‘ I favour a strong exchange rate … |
| 18 | The reputation of Connect Four as a hard F8a was demolished as Glen Sutcliffe and Ian Vickers both made single day redpoints of the route within minutes of each other , while I made a one day ascent of Toadal Recall ( F8a ) . |
| 19 | I made a simple drilling jig from a piece of 25x25x3mm angle iron which covered all the correct distances and spaces . |
| 20 | I made a quick phone call to make sure you did n't leave before I got here , and then came straight round . |
| 21 | Another gift that was well received was a book of poetry for which I made a pressed flower bookmark . |
| 22 | I made a last minute decision to go to this game . |
| 23 | I 'ad a long stint wiv Galloway an' I was gutted when I got the push an' we 'ad ter get out o' the 'ouse . |
| 24 | In actual fact , that car of his being light , I mean a front wheel drive will probably be able to and being light probably be better served for getting out of difficult situations than the other cars . |
| 25 | I mean a fixed term contract for a year for a new in , for an investigator , first of all we 've got to find someone who would do it , secondly if that person was n't frankly al already an investigator the investment in that person . |
| 26 | I mean a little elephant brooch or something . |
| 27 | That 's why I eat a balanced protein diet . |
| 28 | WHILE digging in my garden I unearthed a small metal disc . |
| 29 | The other day , as a small example , I met a young trainee manager working for one of the few substantial Northern Ireland engineering firms . |
| 30 | Yes , well I did n't call , but I did said Jane , well you leave , well I 'll leave you to it said Mr Sandy , if you would come upstairs , the policeman and Jane entered her room , please look in the cupboard , I think we 've got a case Sarge , do you mind if I make a quick phone call ? |