Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being a temp gives you a good chance to try out different types of work before committing yourself to a permanent job , and also to size up the different companies . |
| 2 | Some Arabs in a tent gave them a little water and then the exhausted men finally stumbled into an outpost of the King 's Dragoon Guards . |
| 3 | Finally , remember that fishing from a punt gives you a tremendous advantage . |
| 4 | Additionally , training and riding a horse teaches it a whole range of new habits in relation to its work and us . |
| 5 | In Norway , for instance , it is illegal for a barman to serve you a fresh drink until after you have finished the previous one . |
| 6 | ‘ A girlfriend made me a wonderful big , bright red jumper which I liked so much that I asked her to knit me another . |
| 7 | I 've got to take a second to tell you the whole so-called Iran scandal , I think hard to think of as a scandal . |
| 8 | When I was twelve , and I got baptized , erm a lady gave me a little text and it was from Joshua chapter one and it was verse nine and it says have I not commanded you be strong and courageous do not be terrified , do not be discouraged for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go and that 's a verse that I 've been able to remember and to thank God for on so many different occasions all through my training as a doctor and it 's , all the promises in the bible are absolutely true and you can rely on them because it 's not a book written by men but it 's a book written by God . |
| 9 | She went for an hour and a half to give him a hot cooked dinner , which she had prepared in the morning , and to wash up afterwards . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't usually let a bloke kiss me the first time , ’ she said . |
| 11 | MERCY killing doctor Nigel Cox walked free yesterday when a judge gave him a suspended 12-month prison sentence . |
| 12 | A museum paid him a four-figure sum for it . |
| 13 | Only the width of a post denied him a sensational late equaliser at Everton in the following round , and Second Division Brighton will greet his return to action with some trepidation in tonight 's second round replay . |
| 14 | Shower heads should be cleaned regularly with a nail brush ; every so often use a descaler to give them a good clean . |
| 15 | Why else would I spend a nickel phoning you the glad tidings . ’ |
| 16 | A dragonrider handed him a long shape , wrapped in red silk . |
| 17 | After a few days she even left the cubs for a while to give him a reassuring lick . |
| 18 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
| 19 | A friend knitted me a fabulous Nordic jumper , which immediately took on the status of security blanket . |
| 20 | ‘ You went off before I had a chance to thank you the other day … ’ |
| 21 | Er someone tells him that , a policeman tells him the best way to look at it is if you were locked out your house |
| 22 | Pleading poverty , he sought charity from local shopkeepers , and a butcher gave him an enormous turkey , which might actually have been a small emu . |
| 23 | Later he agreed with a sub-purchaser to sell him a similar cargo at 19s. per ton . |
| 24 | If doing one thing with a control gives you an unpleasant feeling , the normal reaction would be to stop doing it , or to move the control back in the other direction . |
| 25 | I make his bed once a week to give it a good puff up in the sheets . |
| 26 | Cleaning your tack properly once a week gives you the vital opportunity of checking that stitching is in good order and that the parts where metal rests on leather ( such as reins and stirrup leathers ) are not too worn . |
| 27 | Because I 've had it for four years now and I 'm you know a woman touched it the other day and she got really paranoid . |
| 28 | In return for permission to reside on Henderson , Smiley Ratliff has promised to provide the inhabitants of nearby Pitcairn Island with the use of his proposed airstrip , a launch to ferry them the 90 or so miles between Pitcairn and Henderson . |
| 29 | It might be interesting ; he was obviously intelligent and well-educated , and the fact that both Dora and Iris had written him off as a fortune-hunter caused her no particular misgivings . |
| 30 | ‘ A reporter told me the only dames he knew weighed 16 stones at least , ’ she said . |