Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A court has heard how a father gunned down a drugs dealer who 'd been supplying his sons with cannabis . |
| 32 | An inquest has heard how a woman fell twenty five feet to her death from a lorry which crashed on a motorway bridge . |
| 33 | One said that a man had been approached to carry out a contract killing on Freddie , but he refused because he liked him . |
| 34 | er this rate is fixed and can only be changed by agreement with Brussels er and as we 've seen in the last few years , our normal currency exchange rate has fluctuated quite a lot er and in fact has er become fairly weak , but the green pound has stayed the same so there 's quite a difference between our exchange rate and the green rate . |
| 35 | Lord Reid 's view that the restraint of trade doctrine only applies if the convenantor has given up a freedom which he previously possessed was supported by Lords Morris and Hodson . |
| 36 | Next door has given up a right of way that goes nowhere . |
| 37 | French tennis has given out a message . |
| 38 | ‘ French tennis has given out a message ’ , says Haguellar . |
| 39 | Why , in Oxford , has it been left so far to the police , the voluntary sector and private sponsorship to try to cobble together a scheme ? |
| 40 | ‘ With everything that has happened over the last couple of years , I just want to stand back a bit and have a couple of weeks to think about it ’ , he said , before later confirming his desire to lead a new-look Scotland in 1992 . |
| 41 | He wants to hammer out a way of relating its rather unexciting research sponsorship to the need to foster collaborative research on new ideas in European industry . |
| 42 | I would be very pleased to chat to anyone who 's interested , even if you just want to find out a bit about making banners . |
| 43 | When I work in a particular area I want to know why a landscape looks as it does . |
| 44 | The telephone may ring at any moment and an account executive will be expected to know when a client can see the " Answerprint " of their new commercial or proofs of the latest press advertisement , so complete knowledge of the minutiae of the client 's business ready at his finger tips is required . |
| 45 | The parade converges on Place St Maur des Fosses to hear a few words from the local Euro-MP , because the EC has stumped up a bit of money to make it a European clowns ' convention this year . |
| 46 | Aberdeen ( 200 000 people ) has attracted over a quarter of all the people living in the Highlands . |
| 47 | The village has attracted only a trickle of visitors . |
| 48 | You will need to work out a menu for yourself to follow , using the Stage I menus as a guide , but adding your own safe foods and drinks . |
| 49 | I referred to Yorkshire six minutes ago — it has taken the hon. Gentleman that long to work up a head of steam . |
| 50 | KUWAIT was in the thick of battle last night as leading oil producers tried to hammer out a deal which would prevent prices collapsing when winter demand drops . |
| 51 | ‘ Chalon has picked up a stone . ’ |
| 52 | The wind has picked up a bit , and there is a light snow falling . |
| 53 | This is partly because Labour has picked up a mood of unease about the city among its residents , fearful of Frankfurt taking over its role as Europe 's financial capital , and jealous of Paris 's self-confidence and infrastructure . |
| 54 | Oh no what 's he Gavin Ward has picked up a back pass . |
| 55 | ‘ My fitness has picked up a lot in the last two or three weeks and I 'm kicking a ball and running fine , ’ said Owers . |
| 56 | The company has picked up a string of new applications for the manufacturing , financial and education markets to run under the HP MPE/iX operating system . |
| 57 | We now know for certain that the Theobalds are doubtful , that Percy and Lois Hollis will ‘ do their best ’ , and we have had a late flash that Poppy Winterton thinks she has picked up a mystery virus . |
| 58 | But now it 's not increasing as quickly , its gradient has come down a bit . |
| 59 | Michael Zander , professor of law at the London School of Economics and one of the members of the commission , has carried out a survey of courts . |
| 60 | Canadian market research firm DMR Group 's Australian subsidiary , in conjunction with AUUG — the Australian Open Systems User Group — has carried out a survey of open systems strategies down under , polling some 1,000 organisations on their views of open systems technology . |