Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without trying looking very heavily at these type of sales , where savings plans have been sold for future mortgages , erm , the clients are left thinking it 's building up money for their , for their deposit , for their legal fees , and it guarantees them a mortgage at sometime in the future . |
| 2 | It offers them an alternative to expensive air fares . |
| 3 | McDunn finally offers me a cigarette . |
| 4 | Brad disappears to change clothes , and , when he returns , a grey T-shirt hanging out over green satin pyjama bottoms ‘ for maximum comfort ’ , offers me a cup of coffee . |
| 5 | The special position of the chief constable has been discussed in Chapter 4 , but there are other officers whose position grants them a degree of independent authority . |
| 6 | Many firms using the bubble policy have found that the resulting pollution was less than what the law allows , a circumstance that grants them a credit towards added pollution in the future . |
| 7 | Well the government subsidizes them a lot for , for a start and it 's , again it 's the government , the philosophy of the gover of a government either subsidize something or it does n't , does n't it , and it subsidizes what it |
| 8 | I scrounged that off Tom McAskill who owes me a favour ’ |
| 9 | I 've arranged with a friend who owes me a favour that I 'll supply the supervisor for medical equipment being flown to Bucharest . |
| 10 | She owes me a letter , thank heavens , somebody who owes me a letter instead of vice versa . |
| 11 | She owes me a letter , thank heavens , somebody who owes me a letter instead of vice versa . |
| 12 | England is mine , It owes me a living ’ . |
| 13 | That 's alright , I 'll let you drive me all the way round once so , he owes me a quid you see . |
| 14 | One reason why people in our area consistently vote Labour is that they are told by the Opposition that the whole country owes them a living and that everything that has happened to them — the economic misfortunes of past years — has been inflicted purposely by a Conservative Government . |
| 15 | While farmers themselves recognise that no-one owes them a living , there 's still an inherent desire to be on the receiving end of some support . |
| 16 | While farmers themselves recognise that no-one owes them a living , there 's still an inherent desire to be on the receiving end of some support . |
| 17 | no , no it 's , it 's the people that think the world owes them a living , but they do n't want to give anything back and that really bugs me . |
| 18 | But as she needs me a hell of a lot more than I need her , we get along . ’ |
| 19 | That worries me a bit , and yet having |
| 20 | We have proper birth certificates , because my mother must have told a simple lie to the registrar , a discovery about the verisimilitude of documents that worries me a lot as a historian . |
| 21 | He sits down and writes me a receipt in the shadow of a sign which says ‘ You do n't have to be crazy here but it helps ’ . |
| 22 | I was wondering … has she a friend , or maybe a sister ? |
| 23 | ‘ Has she a family ? ’ |
| 24 | Tasteless ridicule of her religion should be absolutely forbidden in the family circle ; not only has she a right to her own beliefs , but an attack on them would be an attack on something that gives her strength and comfort and , best of all , hope as she nears the end of her life . |
| 25 | In many societies David McKnight tells me the man who does the circumcision who actually chops off the foreskins as it were , owes you a wife for it and he says in many of them if you give a man your foreskin then you 've got a right to demand a wife . |
| 26 | He owes you a pint now does n't he ? |
| 27 | And he said well my father is doing today I ca n't do today I 'll do it Friday and I shouted down the stairs but he owes you a day you should n't be going in . |
| 28 | ‘ Then I 'm sure the local community owes you a debt of gratitude , Mr Calder . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ What a silly little trick — he certainly owes you an apology and I 'll see to it that he makes it . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ There 's something special going on when a chap pulls out his chequebook and writes you a cheque for £13,000 right there in the car park , ’ he enthuses . |