Example sentences of "a [noun] [pers pn] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | walking keep you fit its a bit you had a hair cut last week if you 'd of left , if you had n't of had it done you could of taken this thing down |
| 2 | After a bit he got a job in a brick works and picked up £80 a week on day shift and £100 on night shift . |
| 3 | That 's why that , at the moment I do n't see it well I do n't see it a necessity you to get a pension . |
| 4 | When he commits to a budget he takes a risk . |
| 5 | On the toss of a coin he takes a consolation prize of an air pump . |
| 6 | ‘ As a house-guest you leave a lot to be desired , young woman , ’ he said cuttingly . |
| 7 | A verdict he maintained a jury would never return . |
| 8 | He was short and sturdy and when he was on a horse he seemed a part of it . |
| 9 | In November Tajan told the Daily Telegraph of London he also had FFr15 million owed to him in France — a figure he rectified a week later to ‘ between FFr6–8 million ’ . |
| 10 | He received two life sentences , with a recommendation he serve a minimum of eighteen years . |
| 11 | Integrating integrating a sine you get a minus cos so cos Z okay |
| 12 | By writing a precis you boil a passage down to its essentials , and the meaning should then be crystal clear ! |
| 13 | As a result we have a reinforcement of the police and an overloading of the penal system … |
| 14 | As a result we operate a booking system which aims to give as many people as possible an opportunity to play . |
| 15 | As a result they produced a document called an " Initial Feasibility Study " . |
| 16 | In the one-way mirror treatment , when males were unaware they were being watched , they were more aggressive towards infants than in the clear screen treatment and as a result they received a drubbing from the female . |
| 17 | As a result they talk a lot of bullshit about how this is their generation 's answer to LSD ( It 's our final frontier ’ ) and also call up the memories of past sins and traumas — playground racism , the suicide of a Viet vet father , some modish videotape voyeurism , bullying and murder even — which then return to haunt them in the real world . |
| 18 | As a result they offer a lifetime guarantee on their income bond which fixes the return at the level on the day you buy . |
| 19 | I mean we were in a particular discussion last night I mean that chap was making a particular point and we were able to ask questions and that was very useful and it helped everything else and as a result I have a view that Hydro Electric have a certain commitment to the community and I respect it for having that commitment . |
| 20 | As a result I undergo a bout of conscience , taking the short rod only when Odd-Knut assures me that we will eat whatever we catch , and that we will probably not catch anything . |
| 21 | As a result he underwent a personality change and started to attack women . |
| 22 | As a result he reaches a conclusion , which may seem astonishing , though is easily open to misinterpretation , ‘ The truth is that catallaxics is the science which describes the only overall order that comprehends nearly all mankind , and that the economist is therefore entitled to insist that conduciveness to that order be accepted as a standard by which all particular institutions are judged . ’ |
| 23 | Jo 's lesbianism is also important to the way she dresses ; she does n't want to look what she calls ‘ too femme ’ , and says that when she wears a skirt she gets a lot more hassle from men . |
| 24 | For a second she felt a frisson of fear . |
| 25 | For a second she saw a man on top of the rock , then she could not see him behind the waves . |
| 26 | Although he was the first to use motor transport on an extensive scale in Lewis — many a time as a youngster I ran a mile to see his fleet of yellow Fords — he failed to see that the advent of the bus made it possible for the crofter to live in the country and work in the town . |
| 27 | saying to me right , as a parent you choose a qualification , you like pulling out your personal C V , and as a educationalist that literacy is a high-falooting word ? |
| 28 | As a yachtsman he had a touch of genius . |
| 29 | As well as a ribber you need a double-bed colour changer ( YC5 or YC6 ) . |
| 30 | A projection you know a warehouse order erm stock and order situation , if you 've got a and they 've got people by source number , they can see how much is being used by you . |