Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're seeing Jim a week on Tuesday are n't we ? |
| 2 | For Paul Slay coming to Oxford to shop takes a lot of effort . |
| 3 | For Paul Slay coming to Oxford to shop takes a lot of effort . |
| 4 | For Paul Slay coming to Oxford to shop takes a lot of effort . |
| 5 | He passed Edouard a silver box in which cigarettes of kif mixed with tobacco were ready-rolled . |
| 6 | In a well publicised case a patient recently committed suicide while under the care of a clinical ecologist . |
| 7 | As soon as we left Florence and crossed the Tennessee River we passed from Lauderdale , a dry county , to Colbert , a wet one , and the difference was plainly visible : a sudden array of beerstands and gaudy neon nightclubs flickering past made Sheffield a sort of Baghdad next to the more prim outposts in Florence , the birthplace of W C Handy , and a bastion of respectability . |
| 8 | As the team faces relegation to the Third Division , Charlton offers Dunphy a job but his house is tied to Millwall . |
| 9 | His two long walks have given Murray a taste for the sport . |
| 10 | He also plays guitar a bit like Bob Dylan . |
| 11 | But she and the other investors received 4,700 per cent on their investment , and she made Drake a knight . |
| 12 | ‘ The first set was incredible — it was like a final — but after I got that set David seemed to lose heart a bit , ’ said Corsie later . |
| 13 | ‘ They should have given Gary a chance . |
| 14 | A £500,000 investment in an additional production line has given Colchester a capacity of 60 million all-plastic laminate tubes a year . |
| 15 | It offers authorities a number of different approaches to competitive tendering and lists criteria against which potential contractors and submitted tenders can be evaluated . |
| 16 | Fair or unfair , it is a system which has helped make Germany a beacon of political and economic stability in the Western world . |
| 17 | I CAUGHT my boy of 14 sniffing aerosols a year ago and he promised he would never do it again . |
| 18 | " The keys are hidden -under a clump of yellow flag that grows by the river , and if you will follow me I will lead you to them . " |
| 19 | They made Koons a multi-millionaire and one of the richest artists of the thirtysomething set . |
| 20 | THE Questor Selection offers readers a choice of shares suitable for inclusion in long-term portfolios , with execution — only broker services provided through our arrangements with ShareLink — although it is usually not worth dealing in sums below £1,000 . |
| 21 | We had Friday afternoons off and for that job I got £16 a week . " |
| 22 | That money could have electrified railways that would 've given industry a chance to get its goods into Europe . |
| 23 | A redundant fitter from the Coventry car industry in his mid-forties lives alone and receives £61.02 a fortnight . |
| 24 | In his famous survey of 1849 Henry Mayhew found that the memory of the sawyers reached back through better days up to 1826 before the saw mills proliferated , to the even more lucrative times of their fathers , when sawyers could earn £1 a day . |
| 25 | Ah , there he was , eating breadcrumbs a man had thrown him . |
| 26 | If anything , by this time I would have welcomed the security not of a rope , but of seeing Sgurr a Mhaim about a mile closer . |
| 27 | He passed Rex a styrofoam carton labelled Old Shep Bar-B-Q . |
| 28 | Samey levels , awkward controls and some of the most noninteractive flying ever seen on the C64 make G-Loc a game to avoid . |
| 29 | Hannele had given Edward a sheet of paper with names and numbers on it , which now lay on the desk . |
| 30 | It was an ever increasing thing that blew up because it got a little too big , but it did make David a star and he has dealt with it really well , and is a man who does wonderful work . |