Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They enjoyed teasing Liz about her pretensions , and rarely had an opportunity to tease her in the presence of Charles . |
| 2 | For the present it would be advisable not to report such allegations without giving the person defamed an opportunity to refute them in the same report . |
| 3 | An action followed which in the next few years captured many of those leaders with a superior ideology . |
| 4 | For centuries therefore , statute has placed a limit on the time after which a claimant to an interest in land may bring an action to establish it in the face of the possession of another person holding under a later title … |
| 5 | In 1318 , after an attempt to poison him in the previous year , John XXII thanked Margaret for sending him ‘ a certain knife-handle in serpentine form ’ which was reputed to detect poison . |
| 6 | It is a fixed asset as there is an intention to use it in the business . |
| 7 | It is a fixed asset as there is an intention to use it in the business . |
| 8 | It is a fixed asset as there is an intention to use it in the business . |
| 9 | It is a fixed asset as there is an intention to use it in the business . |
| 10 | It is a fixed asset as there is an intention to use it in the business . |
| 11 | On the marker posts that you see , the next time you , you travel past them at ninety miles an hour if you get time to see them , there is actually , a picture of the telephone headset and a number under that headset there will be an arrow pointing you in the direction of the nearest emergency telephone . |
| 12 | All I can remember is an object hitting me in the head as it came through the window and glass shattering everywhere . |
| 13 | It is n't an offence to inhale solvents but it is an offence to sell them in the knowledge that they will be used for such a purpose . ’ |
| 14 | Once , this woman from an agency stopped me in the street and offered me a job and I travelled to Manchester to her agency , but they said : you 'd need to lose a few pounds , and get rid of this spot , and things like that ; and I thought : I ca n't be bothered . |
| 15 | The sheriff made an order placing her in the care of the social work department . |