Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All those who made it possible for me to realize a lifetime 's ambition . |
| 2 | In 1952 I received a county grant , enabling me to attend a girls ' public school in the Home Counties . |
| 3 | Not one of them has a day 's experience of working in British industry . |
| 4 | and then Leander I make a dyer 's son , about Puddle-wharf … — Bartholomew Fair |
| 5 | and say what hi , you got er , I got a bit er , play a game now . |
| 6 | I do n't know whether , people thought that erm if they interfered with me I would n't er I would n't play or what it was but then , anyway erm when the war ended , as I say I got a bit erm worried and erm I then got in touch with er Mr who was then er , then taken over from Sir Cecil Clerk of the Council or Chief Executive and erm , he suggested that erm I might take a course for the erm Home Workers Diploma For The Blind which erm was , well it was a sort of specialized er social worker really . |
| 7 | Then I got a Gibson L5 and went from that to a Super 400 , and I 've stayed with 400s down through the years . ’ |
| 8 | er I got a lift erm school every time that happened |
| 9 | Er , I got a job er in the butchery trade . |
| 10 | When I wh went to Yorkshire , in , we lived at Leeds , I could n't get a job and eventually I got a job er in a electrical firm . |
| 11 | Well , what I found a bit erm remarkable really , in the book |
| 12 | And eventually I found a job er as assistant to the er clerking to the rating officer , who had also been a member of t , who was a member of the chapel , and er knew I was looking for a job and er , I had n't written to him cos I did n't know this one was coming up . |
| 13 | I caught a man 's voice behind him , low , authoritative , then the link was cut . |
| 14 | I caught a waiter 's eye and before long the drinks arrived ; they were greeted with anything-but-ragged cheers , in which the comic wholeheartedly joined . |
| 15 | ‘ Now , what I propose is , I propose a week 's adjournment before we fix the date of the hearing , if that suits the defending officer . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The bar is right behind you ; I suggest a planter 's punch . |
| 17 | The second one the second man says I want a year 's , I want ten years ' supply of whisky , right , so they sling it in there . |
| 18 | For most of the black and white pictures , I used a Leica M6 and shot it with a similar approach to The Family . |
| 19 | Coming down here this week , I came a week early actually , I , I used a week 's holiday as well , and er my lady friend says I think we 'll buy a house in Goodwood . |
| 20 | I hired a Piper PA-28/181 Archer from the Otago Flying Club at Taieri for $130 an hour . |
| 21 | I imagined a morning 's stroll through quiet streets , gazing at patisseries , and then being able to nip up to Paris to visit the Musée d'Orsay or to see a major exhibition . |
| 22 | Cleared by the military Ohakea Control to climb into their airspace I coaxed a Grumman AA5 up to 11,000 feet , to look down into the crater lake of Mount Ruapehu , 9,175 feet high , to see steam and smoke coming from the crater within the torn and shattered peak of 6,517 foot Mount Tongariro ( whose last major eruption was only a dozen or so years back ) and to fly around the perfectly symmetrical cone of Mount Ngauruhoe . |
| 23 | I run a Marshall JCM900 Dual Reverb 100 watt head into a Marshall 4x12 angled classic cabinet utilising Marshall/Celestion G21 25 watt reissue speakers . |
| 24 | I was terrified of saying anything that the kidnappers would view as a coded message or as offensive in any way , in case John should suffer for it , but how was I to put a year 's worth of thoughts and feelings into a few lines ? |
| 25 | Erm I know a boy erm Rickie who just lives up our road |
| 26 | At this time of year I remember a cuckoo 's |
| 27 | I remember a tenants ' association was set up and they demanded that we meet them . |
| 28 | Rather exasperated , I began to get out and had one foot still on the running board when I heard a woman 's voice call : |
| 29 | Suddenly I heard a woman 's scream . |
| 30 | I heard a woman 's voice somewhere above me say sharply , ‘ Please do not mention the subject again ! ’ |