Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [indef pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I was worried that someone else would read my diary , but if so this worry could only have been a slight one : I was much too careful to afford anyone the opportunity to snoop . |
| 2 | This year we have added a special category for best new garden under three years old to give everyone an equal chance . |
| 3 | This gave everyone a chance to have their meal without the attention of the doves and fodies , who would otherwise steal food from your table — or even off the plate in front of you . |
| 4 | This gives one the chance to focus and shoot , taking care to keep the camera pointed at a small angle to the aquarium glass . |
| 5 | This gives one an idea how the print , that is the working on the plate , is progressing and if there are any offending areas or marks these can be removed from the plate by scraping and burnishing the metal . |
| 6 | This gives everyone the chance to find out what 's going on and voice their views . |
| 7 | This gives everybody a turn at catching . |
| 8 | In the school library , time constraints make it impossible to do everything the school librarian would like to do in microcomputer applications . |
| 9 | Mum wants a pair of trousers for going out with , you know well she 's got plenty but like I say it 's but then you get I 'll no it 's not very personal to give somebody a voucher though is it ? |
| 10 | The main bridge between the two was the Council of 500 members , appointed annually from the demes in proportion to their population — so for instance Eleusis was allowed to send eleven councillors to the city , and the great deme of Acharnai sent twenty-two , while some tiny demes like Pambotadai and Syhridai took it in turn to send a single councillor , each sending one every other year . |
| 11 | I thought that since the recital is to start at 7.30 you might all like something a little substantial before we set out . |
| 12 | And if it is , then its correlation with that belief of his wo n't depend on his wanting anything ( other than thistles ) and in particular not on his wanting to tell anyone the truth . |
| 13 | No way do I wish to be seen as a killjoy , I , I like a drink myself , I would always happy to give somebody a drink , but it 's the over indulgence which worries us . |
| 14 | Just leave it to me said Mr Grover I think between us and with the help of some of our friends in the market we shall be able to give everybody a Christmas to remember . |
| 15 | We 're happy doing nothing THE CULTURE OF CONTENTMENT J K Galbraith Sinclair-Stevenson , £14.95 William Keegan |
| 16 | ‘ Not sure that I would ever again be able to love someone the way I love you . ’ |
| 17 | This does not mean that we will be able to explain everything a cat does . |
| 18 | It was ultimately because of this that Nonconformity , unlike the Church of England , was able to achieve something no church has equalled since : it attracted and kept men in church . |
| 19 | A glance at the careers of nine of the ten Muftis who held the office between 988/1580 and 1031/1622 and whose teaching careers fall in the latter half of the sixteenth century , after the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , will give an idea of the teaching background apparently considered essential to give one a chance of eventual appointment to what had by then become the highest learned office : all nine men taught at the Sahn and subsequently at one of the 60-akce medreses built prior to the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , for example , the Sehzade medrese ; two of the nine then went directly to their first mevleviyet ( early on in the period , in 1566 and 1573 ) , while six taught at one of the Suleymaniye medreses and one at the medrese of the mother of Murad III in Uskudar ( the Atik Valide medrese ) , newer than Suleyman 's medreses , before being appointed to their first mevleviyet . |
| 20 | It is difficult to imagine anything the shape of Stan Flashman as being the tip of an iceberg but that 's exactly what he is . |
| 21 | This weather 's enough to give anybody a cold eye is n't it ? |
| 22 | It is enough to give anybody the World Cup willies . |
| 23 | They think this will make tham a lot better off ; a little perhaps , but a lot ? ) is enough to give anyone a sick headache . |
| 24 | He was keen to tell everyone the Great News about my dad coming back to life to expose Christianity . |
| 25 | Her great painful and ecstatic climaxes make us at last to know something the man has always wanted to know … |
| 26 | IN his black and silver warrior 's robes , brandishing his flashing , menacing sword — and it is a real one — Glenn Lobo looks ready to do someone a great deal of mischief . |
| 27 | More than 170 Consort hotels welcome dogs , with about a third offering something a bit special — Bona-Fido — which operates a bit like the AA 's rating , but with stars switched for bones . |