Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's all right they told her , everyone loves a sports car . |
| 2 | Among them is Johnson 's Seeds , which offers a Shades & ’ Patches Collection of herbaceous plants for the border in yellow , blue , white or pink . |
| 3 | They will have to find the right balance between rule by unwieldy committee and by a chosen few ( or fewer , as at Clifford Chance , which has a partners ' council but where power , in practice , largely rests with the managing partner ) . |
| 4 | During the strike , the policy was justified by reference first to a section in the Road Traffic Act 1972 which allows a police officer in uniform to stop vehicles and secondly to the common law breach of the peace power . |
| 5 | Negotiations over the land , which includes a sports field , have taken place between the MoD and US naval authorities during the past year , but enterprise agency officials feel the delay in obtaining the land is hampering progress . |
| 6 | There 's a good on-screen tutorial covering computer basics , and Lotus Works , a reasonable , DOS-based integrated package which includes a comms program as well as the usual word processor , database and spreadsheet . |
| 7 | This was the first piece of silliness : Comet already has 8.8 per cent and Dixons has almost 18 per cent — quite enough when merged to breach the 25 per cent ceiling which triggers a Monopolies Commission inquiry . |
| 8 | Mr Parrott , who has a Gunners tatoo on his right forearm , said : ‘ My Sunday League side has been doing better than Arsenal . |
| 9 | Meanwhile a woman who adopts a kairos approach is to see herself as one whom God has now deigned to choose , and privileged at that . |
| 10 | As with the purchase of a share , the maximum loss that can be suffered by anyone who buys a futures contract is the initial price of the asset ( S t ) , since negative share prices are not possible . |
| 11 | An article purporting to be by Richard Littlejohn , the Sun 's star columnist , headed ‘ Who Gives a Monkeys ’ , is dressed up to look like an advertisement . |
| 12 | Meanwhile at Thorey Island , one of the groups is under the charge of Corporal Alison Miller , Whose civilian job is as a secretary , but at weekends she becomes a Women 's Royal Army Corps Provost NCO . |
| 13 | Mrs Catto , who runs a drapers store in nearby Aboyne , said : ‘ It was a lovely family occasion . |
| 14 | You see there there he is telling this lady do n't listen to her she runs a savings group , the squander bug works for Hitler . |
| 15 | Between 7th July and 17th August , the hotel has a resident nanny for 4–11 year olds ; who organises a children 's activity programme and early dinners if required . |
| 16 | There follows a definitions section . |
| 17 | Suddenly his older brother dies , and he inherits a police force . |
| 18 | He 's moved the story to Russia , sent the Prince on army manoeuvres where he joins a boys ' boozy night out , has the swans massacred by a power-mad crippled usurper and the corpses piled obscenely in a heap . |
| 19 | He has a gravitas that has not just been put on like a flashy waistcoat , nor indeed a Garrick Club tie . |
| 20 | The clitoris is the female equivalent of the penis and it has a glans clitoridis , which corresponds to the glans penis and is similarly well supplied with sensory nerves . |
| 21 | It has a options menu that allows you to block words , create puzzles and reverse them . |
| 22 | Labstation can acquire raw data and results from any laboratory instrument , irrespective of manufacturer ( as long as it has a communications interface ) . |
| 23 | Although it has a 25½″ scale this is much more a Gibson player 's neck than a Fender player 's , since it 's thin and very wide — 44mm at the nut . |
| 24 | I bet he wants a bollocks P C. |
| 25 | if it sees a needs for this . |
| 26 | Alternatively David Blair 's WAX uses low-budget computer tech and digital FX to mix original film and animation , found footage and a zoned-out voiceover , as it follows a weapons industry worker who , via a television implanted in his head by bees , visits the land of the dead before turning into a smart bomb in Iraq . |
| 27 | It recommends a complaints commission under the jurisdiction of an independent statutory health standards inspectorate . |
| 28 | Oh , I 'd say it is w wrong anyway in that er I say it 's the it 's early er on it in the report Good defines what he determines a trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively ought enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund then it is against that duty in the first place , but it 's to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty saying stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 29 | You use it just like a dumb terminal , the difference being that instead of a plain text screen , it provides a mouse-and-windows interface . |
| 30 | Not that it makes a whits difference to how the team plays or what team Wilko puts out on Saturday . |