Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She beat a retreat when she realised that she was going to get nothing further out of him . |
| 2 | And I can only have been about nine when a schoolfriend proudly showed snaps of her mother fancy-dressed as ‘ No-one loves a fairy when she 's 40 ’ . |
| 3 | Reynes was an acquaintance of the diarist Samuel Pepys , who referred to him as ‘ a willing man , ready to co-operate in plans for the Navy ’ , and ‘ one who understands and loves a play as well as I , and I love him for it ’ . |
| 4 | Sneezy was Robin Cook ( ‘ he 's going to catch a cold when he finds you can not solve all problems by throwing money at them ’ ) and Dopey , You Know Who . |
| 5 | ‘ It really only causes a problem when only one partner wants to remain childless , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Peichl has designed a building as well suited to display as to debate : in addition to modular areas intended to house exhibitions of all kinds , there is a technologically sophisticated complex consisting of a library , a 500-seat auditorium , television studios , and rooms for lectures , concerts , film shows and live performances . |
| 7 | Can you install a shower if one is not already there ? |
| 8 | ‘ At one stage when he was at United I was asked to go and help him seek a settlement after a specialist 's report said his knees would n't last another 12 months ! ’ |
| 9 | Hello ! has won a reputation as heralding disaster by featuring families apparently in bliss just before they hit the rocks . |
| 10 | By now Ballesteros had not won a major since St Andrews ‘ 84 , but the ‘ 88 Open was at Royal Lytham St Annes , where he had won in ‘ 79 . |
| 11 | PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin appeared last night to have narrowly won a reprieve after the Russian parliament had voted overwhelmingly to take the first step towards his possible impeachment . |
| 12 | In the Sixties — with Charlton , Law and Best at United , Greaves at Spurs , Marsh at Rangers , Moore , Hurst and Peters at West Ham — you had to be some kind of deranged flagellant to choose a team that had n't won a thing since the Coronation . |
| 13 | He has not won a tournament since the Memorial in May , 1990 , and even then he was only the ‘ declared ’ winner . |
| 14 | You might not have won a beauty if you were poor . " |
| 15 | He was finding walking a chore so we left him , following the river inland towards its glacial snout source . |
| 16 | Hurlock , already booked by referee David Elleray , was walking a tightrope as Southampton battled to quell Forest 's fire . |
| 17 | Ladies and gentlemen , let me myself hazard a guess as to the answer , for such a gentleman capable of the levels of deceit he has displayed over these past days should not be relied upon to provide a truthful reply . |
| 18 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 19 | Toby Haggith relates the tragic story of the death of Jeremy Parkinson in the Spanish Gredos mountains , and the disturbing questions it raises about the competence of the authorities involved in launching a search when Jeremy went missing |
| 20 | The prison has to be convinced that none of its inmates are a danger to the public , but last week Trevor Hanson , a convicted rapist there allegedly attacked a woman while on home leave from Leyhill . |
| 21 | He uses a variety of dogs for his creations , but his preferred canine poseurs are his own pets Man Ray ( as committed a surrealist as his illustrious namesake , by all accounts ) and the gorgeous , pouting Fay Ray ( the mutt on the right in the above pic ) . |
| 22 | He once defended a racist skinhead who 'd committed a burglary while on parole . |
| 23 | Ri Rita said Ken said it was a Porshe , but when I asked Ken he said he did n't say it was a Porshe , he says I would n't know a Porshe if I 've seen one and I says yeah , that 's what Dave said , ha , ha , ha , cos you said oh Ken do n't know one car from another and , and that 's what he said |
| 24 | Sixth sense for smack ; would n't know a Poussin if it moved in next door and fucked his daughter . |
| 25 | You do n't know a person until you 've lived with them ! |
| 26 | If you came in now and asked me for a pound of apples , well in a way I would n't know a stranger whether they like them under-ripe , ripe or just ready for eating . |
| 27 | It had been one of those deep , deep sleeps ; the kind when you do n't know a thing until your mum starts yelling at you for the umpteenth time that you 're going to be late for school if you do n't get up . |
| 28 | ‘ And you would n't know a murderer if you tripped over one . ’ |
| 29 | However , according to Egnell Ameda , white noise wo n't soothe a baby if she really needs attention — because her nappy needs changing , say , or if she 's hungry . |
| 30 | I heard this with embarrassment , remembering how terribly bored and miserable I had been sitting there on a long hot afternoon , hardly understanding a word as chiefs and elders talked to our delegation in local dialect . |