Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | put it in the shop window in New York on St Patrick 's Day along with forty shades of green paperweights , the lacquered shillelaghs , and the wonderful world of deedeelee eedeelee eedeelee Irishness ; skipping dancing jolly little leprechauns in bright buckled shoes and battered hatted bow legged bright red drunken faced gombeen men with little devils in their laughing Irish eyes , mischievous gossipy white haired old women with shawls , pure white skinned colleens skipping carefree through green fields dutifully ready to return in an instant to domestic chores , strapping athletic lads with fine belts and sturdy boots ever willing to put in a fair day 's work or hit each other a clout . |
| 2 | Community partners will soon need to start work on a new machine that will build on its results and bring commercial fusion a step nearer . |
| 3 | Harvey split the words into syllables and made each syllable a step in his dance , then he changed the accents round and danced the same remark again . |
| 4 | And give us back the pride and the credibility that we once took for granted as trade unionists but we allowed to slip away from us , and make us a force to be reckoned with , and send this government a message , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to tell us how to run the G M B , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to prevent us from protecting our brothers and sisters and we 'll no never ever allow anyone at Westminster to defeat the trade union movement . |
| 5 | We examine these in an orderly way and assign each system a success or failure branch in respect of its operation . |
| 6 | The young priest poured brandy from a decanter and handed each man a glass . |
| 7 | Make sure that each tape is clearly labelled for every text on it , and give each text a number . |
| 8 | If someone comes looking for trouble , you are expected to decline his or her offer and give that person a chance to back off . |
| 9 | The only reason er top earners are top earners in our company is they do n't sit back and take one deal a day |
| 10 | ( c ) Registration Section 8 of the 1983 Act thrusts upon various local authorities the duty to appoint a ‘ registration officer ’ whose task it is to prepare and publish each year a register of electors in his area ( ibid , s.9 ) . |
| 11 | At a meeting this May the Agricultural Ministers agreed that reform was necessary and gave each other a deadline of June 1993 to come up with concrete proposals . |
| 12 | The BCG divided its matrix into four quadrants as shown in figure 4.1 and gave each quadrant a name to signify how the products in it should be treated . |
| 13 | She got drunk at a party at work and gave some guy a blowjob in the storeroom . |
| 14 | And then , before them all , he bent down and gave Brown Owl a kiss . |
| 15 | As far as I was concerned , cricket was , and certainly still is , the most tedious and unengaging sporting activity a man could possibly indulge in . |
| 16 | In business only four years she already has a turnover of half a million pounds and supplys one outfit a year to the young princes William and Harry . |
| 17 | Grade I construction defines a building of fire resisting construction and Grade 2 construction a building which is essentially of non-combustible construction . |