Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A computer programmer would almost certainly get a computer to do it that way , but I doubt whether the brain does . |
| 2 | At Homestead they were guests of the 482 Tactical Fighter Wing which recently had seen action in the Gulg , and It was here that each was given a certificate making them Honorary F-16 Fighter Pilots . |
| 3 | Just take a look got me little list knocking round . |
| 4 | ‘ In fact , I 've half a mind to join you two girls tomorrow in Sherwood Forest , and perhaps we could arrange to lose Anna somewhere in the bosky glades . ’ |
| 5 | However , the future of its messy OSF/1-Ultrix-Open Desktop strategy is so unstable that even its own spokespeople were at a loss to explain it last week — ‘ it 's too early to say , ’ they conceded . |
| 6 | It 's very hard to explain , but these people are all on the extreme left and were seeking a poet to give them some sort of standing . |
| 7 | I was still handed a second to cause me extra hassle . |
| 8 | I got a bottle of gin a bloke bought me three years ago . |
| 9 | But the way he did it was with the same connections he defied , and to get into serious racing in his early days , he got a bank to give him credit and a sponsor to give him some backing : though he had n't , of his own , a sou in the world . |
| 10 | But if you 're religiously inclined , then clearly the universe looks a bit different , because the universe has a creator , and having a creator gives it some kind of meaning . |
| 11 | ‘ If a sport offered me 12 hours free , I would have to say I have nowhere to put it , ’ Bromley admits . |
| 12 | Well , it 's been a joy to meet you this evening , please can I have another signed photo to replace the old one ? |
| 13 | I thought when I first came here that I hated what she was trying to do to me and then I came to see that the clothes , the manners , the society , all those things were part of a process , a process to give me enough confidence to do what I liked , not to live in eternal dread of insignificance and error . |
| 14 | A friend took me one summer on a tour of the Andean provinces . |
| 15 | For instance , ‘ You are going to try to persuade a friend to lend you some money ’ places the participant in the experiential frame , as the negotiation will occur and the outcome could take different forms . |
| 16 | If a friend gave you this list of reasons why they could not love themselves , what would you say ? |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm disappointed for those under 14s who have n't had a chance to see me this time , but I 'm looking forward to doing a full scale tour probably next year when everyone will have a chance to come along , ’ she added . |
| 18 | I , I , a hairdresser told me that years ago Elaine . |
| 19 | And it had all been an act , a ploy to save them both embarrassment after the mild indiscretions of the previous evening . |
| 20 | A physiotherapist taught me wrist-strengthening exercises and two days later I was allowed home . |
| 21 | Prior to the council , Lawyer was given a paper proclaiming him head chief of the Nez Perce . |
| 22 | If Francis had made a will have you any idea how it would have gone ? ’ |
| 23 | Boyd Stych , looking strangely civilized in a dark business suit and neatly clipped beard , was informed by his wife , when he came home , that the Advent was sending a photographer and a reporter to see him this evening and he was not to litter up the lounge — she 'd just tidied it . |
| 24 | She had no idea what she wanted , but it was n't a licence to have it both ways . |
| 25 | His contract contained a clause granting him creative control over the films and a final say on editing , and a salary of over $1 million per film and 50 per cent of each film 's box-office revenue , a profit participation scale somewhat higher than the others ' . |
| 26 | A spokesman told me this week : ‘ It 's a top-shelf title . |
| 27 | In Russia itself , parliamentary deputies hinted that they might be open to a spot of bribery when , earlier this year , they discussed a bill to guarantee them various privileges for life — a flat in Moscow , a salary , priority booking on aircraft and trains . |
| 28 | Had dinner with Eric McCormach ( ‘ an enticingly diabolical imagination ’ ) whose Inspecting the Vaults ( Bloomsbury , £4.99 ) is a book to give you sleepless nights . |
| 29 | Without revealing that both ships had been secretly assisting South Vietnamese commando raids on the North , Johnson called upon Congress to pass a resolution granting him sweeping powers to act against North Vietnam . |
| 30 | He had inadequate funds to go abroad but a relative advanced him some money and off he went in 1935 . |