Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bring the old girl a chair will you , lads ? ’ |
| 2 | Approaching Lothern the first thing a mariner sees is the Glittering Tower , a great lighthouse filled with thousands of lamps , situated on a rocky isle in the mouth of the treacherous waters of the Straits of Lothern . |
| 3 | These few words of Bishop Samson make the whole affair a matter of business-like common sense , more in keeping with the way in which government was developing than with Anselm 's grand and simple principles . |
| 4 | Then flick the elastic band a couple of times . |
| 5 | decorators and they were saying that their plumbers they charge a hundred pound a day ! |
| 6 | And while the White House has publicly dismissed anti-war demonstrators as well-meaning but ‘ misguided individuals ’ , off the record , some presidential advisers reportedly consider the anti-war movement a danger to be dealt with , noting that ‘ its membership is mainstream and 100 times stronger now than at the beginning of Vietnam . ’ |
| 7 | They give the good speller a chance to use his skill , but may depress a poor speller . |
| 8 | The introduction of air into the peritoneal cavity would push the lung up even further and give the diseased part a chance to rest . |
| 9 | ‘ Sunday meetings give the working man a chance to go racing . |
| 10 | When the smoke really thins out , thin blue smoke , rap on it , give the whole tin a shake and it 'll suddenly burst into thick smoke for a few minutes and it may do that again for a second time . |
| 11 | Give the hon. Gentleman a chance . |
| 12 | Yeah , but give the old girl a bit of respect son . |
| 13 | Give the Cleaner Shrimp a miss |
| 14 | Taste : Give a blindfolded Brownie a plate on which there are four or five different powders . |
| 15 | monopoly of balloting parents when they make every other affair a matter of competitive tendering ? |
| 16 | Item twenty as well as twenty six , you are suggesting that meals go up in day centres by fifteen percent , and then on twenty six , we introduce a two pound a week for daycare , for people with learning disabilities . |
| 17 | Remember the sensational flurry a couple of years back when we picked up word that IBM Corp was considering making an agreed offer for Apple Computer Inc ? |
| 18 | It 's only open you know a half day a week . |
| 19 | What the thing of course is , and we all know what it is , it 's an effort to penalise those secondary schools who 've gone grant maintained , but they do n't get the extra money , they get a hundred pound a pupil less . |
| 20 | We only get a certain amount a week off our dad [ parents separated ] and that 's about it — and what I take home . ’ |
| 21 | Worth trying if you like nasturtiums but find the vigorous foliage a frustration when it hides the flowers . |
| 22 | I pay the Municpal Corporation a tax of Rs 60 per month for running a stall on the pavements here , but at least there is no harassment now . |
| 23 | Housing associations play a big part a cross the programme . |
| 24 | Help the Aged support a programme of work on issues concerning the extended family and community care . |
| 25 | Gets as far as this : Migration of Sperms : ‘ Approximately 400 million sperms are present in each ejaculation … if only 10 per cent of the sperms reach the cervical canal a total of approximately 40 million sperms will have reached this favourable haven . |
| 26 | I 've a nasty feeling a profiteering wheeler-dealer like me is never going to be innocent enough for your high-minded ideology … ’ |
| 27 | I can not , however , promise the hon. Gentleman a debate next week on the specific issue that he raises . |
| 28 | If you have a young family a sandpit can be popular but do n't site it at the bottom of the garden out of sight . |
| 29 | This should preferable be a phonetic description , but if the students have no phonetic training a face diagram accompanied by a tape-recording should be provided . |