Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 2 | That 's all right they told her , everyone loves a sports car . |
| 3 | no I mean a sports car . |
| 4 | I got a DOPACS report saying he 'd worked thirteen shifts out of fourteen . |
| 5 | ‘ I got a women member of the production team to have a discreet word with his wife . |
| 6 | I drew a rolls royce and not a plane . |
| 7 | From the other side of Portman Square I heard a police siren , which meant that the cavalry was on its way but with the traffic plugged solid it would take them a while . |
| 8 | Two years ago I planted a pampas grass to screen an ugly compost heap . |
| 9 | To protect my heaterstats from the Oscar and the Perruno , I use a 2″ diameter tube drilled with 6mm holes . |
| 10 | ‘ I took a plumbers apprenticeship when I left school , ’ he said , ‘ But after I 'd worked here for a while , I decided to stay on full time . ’ |
| 11 | I did a drugs awareness sketch and got a small part in the school play which was Twelfth Night . |
| 12 | Yes , I had a seconds timer there as you can see . |
| 13 | It was built before the war , and I have a Shanks loo , which makes me think that the British must have had a hand in building it . |
| 14 | I have a 36″ community tank with Guppies , Neons , Glowlights , Bronze Corydoras , Clown Loaches , a Plec and a Farlowella . |
| 15 | I have a 30″ Powerglo tube and a 30″ Aquastar . |
| 16 | In August I stole a sports car and went to the South of France . |
| 17 | But Greenalls , which announced a rights issue to raise £86m recently , is expected to declare a 7pc lift in its final payout , also payable on rights shares , to 6.93p a share . |
| 18 | Among dozens of companies reporting yesterday was speciality chemicals group Laporte which reported a profits slide of ten per cent and saw its shares slip . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Dart , of Leeds , also shot a boy of 17 in the leg with an airgun dart and was in a stolen Cavalier SRi car which rammed a police van . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The 21-year-old sprinter , who failed a pre-Games drugs test in July , is due to appeal to an independent tribunal within the next few weeks against his four-year ban imposed by the British Athletic Federation . |
| 24 | ‘ That did n't work out so she became a police woman . |
| 25 | Over the weekend she helped a police artist draw an impression of her attacker . |
| 26 | Mr Parrott , who has a Gunners tatoo on his right forearm , said : ‘ My Sunday League side has been doing better than Arsenal . |
| 27 | She stopped a police car and pointed to it . |
| 28 | Plus , there 's a unique opportunity for you to purchase a Clothes Show Live carrier bag and catalogue . |
| 29 | Or you joined a sports club . |
| 30 | 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 . |