Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I a bit put it in the back now . |
| 2 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 3 | The unions are still engaged in a struggle to establish themselves in the available ‘ space ’ , a struggle that has very largely been resolved in the case of the BR unions where it was in any case mainly confined to representation of the footplate grades . |
| 4 | ( In this particular area of using dictionaries in catalogue systems , the only precedent of which I am aware is of a university paying something in the region of $40–50,000 . ) |
| 5 | A wave slapped him in the mouth . |
| 6 | " Frith could have killed El-ahrairah at once , but he had a mind to keep him in the world , because he needed him to sport and jest and play tricks . |
| 7 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 8 | It is always a pleasure to meet you in the field and I appreciate your commitment to creating a better housing business and providing greater satisfaction for our customers . |
| 9 | Haines fell over and a Corporal kicked him in the stomach , shouting at him to stand up . |
| 10 | It is an unrelieved black except for the white flanks but a watcher catching it in the right light might see the head has an iridescent purple sheen which can be striking . |
| 11 | In 1973 the Ladies ' Committee concerned itself with this seat reporting ‘ It was a pity to leave it in the wet even if only there for the time being ’ . |
| 12 | IRELAND , bottom of the Five Nations ' Championship last season , may turn to a Welshman to lead them in the 1995 rugby union World Cup in South Africa . |
| 13 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
| 14 | A bomb hit us in the night , d' ya not know that ? |
| 15 | what a shame put it in the bank |
| 16 | Said Granada 's Controller of Sport Paul Doherty : ‘ I told the ITV lawyers that I consider this unfair restriction of trade and I want ITV as a body to challenge it in the courts . |
| 17 | A running calendar is simply a tool to guide you in the direction you want to go . |
| 18 | Buyers are given assembly instructions and a video to help them in the building of their car , and Mr Nearn maintains that the kits are not difficult to put together . |
| 19 | They 've turned down several lucrative offers to reform in the past , but feel that now is the time for fans outside London to get a chance to see them in the flesh . ’ |
| 20 | Or do you want to have a chance to say something in the light of the way the discussion 's progressed during the day ? |
| 21 | Although some of the things that you were taught you maybe never got a chance to do them in the bakery . |
| 22 | At the same time , UK paperbackers are contractually bound not to issue their paperbacks into the UK before the hardback editions of the same titles have had a chance to prove themselves in the bookshops . |
| 23 | But Lisa 's mother points out that it 's unusual for people with Downs Syndrome to be given a chance to prove themselves in the first place : |
| 24 | Therry Buleita spent a whole night in this position ; each time her head dropped , a policeman kicked her in the face . |
| 25 | A policeman found him in the river near Waterloo station . |
| 26 | A chill caught him in the stomach . |
| 27 | A baby tethered one in the most relentless way , even a mother who was lucky enough to be able to leave her infant in the hands of others . |
| 28 | But I accepted what G.K. Chesterton had put so well in 1911 : ‘ A woman putting up her fists at a man is a woman putting herself in the one position which does not frighten him . ’ |
| 29 | A tinker accosted me in the bar , asking for a glass of brandy , but I gave him short shrift . |
| 30 | Then the unit going to Belfast , and the day a sniper killed him in the Crumlin Road . |