Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How about taking me on as a lift attendant ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Anyway , we remained friends , and when he decided to come down here and start his practice I asked if he would take me on as a pupil veterinary nurse . |
| 3 | ‘ He shoved me on to a toilet seat and punched me , ’ Claire said . |
| 4 | Anyone finding them should hand them in at a police station or to any officer he said . |
| 5 | His hobby was breeding bees and one day he brought them in in a glass cabinet and he was saying , ‘ These are the workers and this is the queen bee , and they fly out of the window and come back with pollen and they make honey . ’ |
| 6 | In the living room she picked up a couple of wine glasses from the floor and set them down on a coffee table . |
| 7 | Women motorists have been urged to be vigilant after two women were raped after three men flagged them down in a country lane in Bedfordshire . |
| 8 | If you have any friends suffering from depression do try to get them along to a Medau Class . |
| 9 | And in the past , the , the nearest we 've got to that is taking them along to a fire station and telling them what sort of people we are , that has been proved in many cases to be counterproductive , because it 's actually an incentive if you wish to set fires from other districts than this . |
| 10 | As we parted , we could hear our man force-feeding his companions their scotch eggs , hurrying them along like a rowing cox . |
| 11 | When , and only when , the paper and the paint have completely dried , I emphasise the highlights by rubbing over them gently with a typewriter eraser , the variety which can be sharpened to a point to increase accuracy . |
| 12 | When , and only when , the paper and the paint have completely dried , I emphasise the highlights by rubbing over them gently with a typewriter eraser , the variety which can be sharpened to a point to increase accuracy . |
| 13 | At Cambridge , NUPE put a picket around the Union building where I was taking part in a debate and the police wanted to take me in by a side entrance . |
| 14 | Azar called me over and with a flourish sat me down on a plastic deckchair at the front of the ring of spectators . |
| 15 | The concussion of the exploding wave drove me down like a steam hammer . |
| 16 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 17 | The start of the second half promised an exciting come back after Whelan scored , but it was n't to be : Leeds ' play became increasingly frenetic and desperate , and Sunderland players kept going over like someone in the crowd was working them over with a machine gun . |
| 18 | Look for any spots of etch-resist which are unwanted : these can be removed by wiping them off with a cotton bud dipped in acetone ( nail varnish remover ) . |
| 19 | You switch them off with a button code . |
| 20 | This seems to them more like a building site than a City office . |
| 21 | Evening : invited me home to a buffet meal with a group of friends and colleagues , including , ( Linguistics CIEFL ) , ( Linguistics CIEFL ) , ( Correspondence Course , CIEFL ) , ( Materials Production , CIEFL ) . |
| 22 | I delighted them once with a return invitation to dine at The Pightle . |
| 23 | Then someone tipped me off about a US material used for bow and kite strings . ’ |
| 24 | Betty had met me at Bellanoch , whisking me off to a venison dinner at her friend 's at Ford . |
| 25 | ‘ She treats me more like a father figure , ’ David said . |
| 26 | Payslips are produced and sent to you together with a payroll report for management information and audit purposes . |
| 27 | For anything up to £500 , this place can fix you up with a fashion accessory in a class of its own . |
| 28 | I do n't even know if you have a mother or father , or whether they made you up in a test tube . |
| 29 | ‘ How about letting me take you out for a pub lunch ? |
| 30 | Cos they sent me loads of that and er I 'll sort you out with a T shirt as well all right ? |