Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Open University offers you a lifelong opportunity to continue your education — to whatever level you want , and in a way that fits in with the rest of your life . |
| 2 | Feynman offers us a simple way to see that this happens . |
| 3 | He succeeds in the game and the goldfish offers him a prize . |
| 4 | The present writer owes him a particularly deep debt of gratitude . |
| 5 | ‘ We believe that Power Fluidics offers us a unique opportunity , and we are delighted to be at the forefront of the application of this technology . |
| 6 | The Proconsul offers him a last-minute reprieve , however , if he will repent and swear by the genius of Caesar . |
| 7 | Women compositors did not want equal pay , she wrote , for no girl of sense puts herself on the level of a comp all round but if the division of labour assigns her a task she can perform , what reason is there she should not do so ? |
| 8 | The barman hands her a second drink , a Tennents . |
| 9 | Nothing signifies for him , yet he seizes on details with a toneless precision , almost pedantry : when Raskolnikov calls him a gambler he says he is actually a card-sharper . |
| 10 | Much of the work evaluated in this chapter takes us a long way towards identifying mechanisms for triggering the need for investment , screening the proposals and defining them . |
| 11 | Thirdly , the Act clearly adopts as the test of danger either ‘ the greater risk of harm ’ or ‘ the risk of greater harm ’ : an elephant may not in fact be very likely to get out of control and do damage , but if it does so , its bulk gives it a great capacity for harm . |
| 12 | Oh ! er look I mean it at all unless David gives me a little |
| 13 | The result gives us a breathing space , but there is still the risk of a private member 's Bill . ’ |
| 14 | SOLE GIVES US A LECTURE |
| 15 | The heading of this chapter gives you a clue . |
| 16 | in the bar on the harbour serves you a drink — what ? — asks you if men could possibly land on the moon . |
| 17 | A brief look at the content of the women 's programme gives us a flavour of how homosexuality was represented : a good deal of time was devoted to an interview with Steve , a prospective female-to-male transsexual ( displaying a common confusion with homosexuality and transsexuality ) . |
| 18 | Defoe gives us a splendid picture of an industrial landscape in the time of Queen Anne or shortly after . |
| 19 | For instance , erm erm a good illustration of this is Locke 's erm erm argument on the right of inheritance and erm in this case I am quoting from the first treatise of government the right a son has to be maintained , has to be maintained and provided with the necessary the necessities and conveniences of life out of his father 's stock gives him a right to succeed to his father 's property for his own good but this can give him no right to succeed also to the rule which his father had over other men . |
| 20 | Apart from primates , some of the best known tool users among the mammals are the African and Asian elephants , whose prehensile trunk gives them a considerable advantage when it comes to holding and manipulating objects . |
| 21 | Planning our future gives us a greater sense of internal control and increases self-esteem . |
| 22 | Your employee gives you a maternity certificate ( such as MAT B1 ) showing the date her baby is expected . |
| 23 | The Undo command gives you a second chance when you delete a block of text in error by allowing you to replace it in the document exactly where it came from . |
| 24 | Conventional welding gives you a very large heat affected zone and that can distort the material or alter its properties in some way and potentially damage or weaken a structure . |
| 25 | A mock interview gives you a " practice run " before you start going to real interviews . |
| 26 | Intercity gives them a very good image if your journey was on time but it 's definitely there as a a positive thing . |
| 27 | The small square of shops reminds me a lot of Belfast 's battle-scarred Divis Flats — the shop windows are permanently barricaded , many flats boarded up and the walls covered in spray can slogans . |
| 28 | ‘ Tencel reminds us a lot of gaberdine slacks . |
| 29 | A shrewd aid programme does us a favour . |
| 30 | Additionally , training and riding a horse teaches it a whole range of new habits in relation to its work and us . |