Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Connery ( nee Bond ) lives in Marbella and has made a commercial for Japanese whisky . |
| 2 | Sir Leonard has had a distinguished with I B M which included being seconded by I B M to the National Health Service Management Board , first as Director of Personnel and then as Chairman of the Board . |
| 3 | He really has got a right to be angry . |
| 4 | Cupertino-based EcoSystems Software Inc reckons it has scored a first with its EcoSphere and EcoTools/Oracle client-server systems management software , the production versions of which are just shipping . |
| 5 | Harry Ramsden 's has taken a third of the equity of a new company , Bluelane , capitalised at £750,000 , which will manage the Hong Kong restaurant and franchise further outlets in the Pacific Rim area . |
| 6 | Partly because of the volume of this response and partly because of the radical nature of some of these proposals , going well beyond those envisaged in Partnership in Validation , the CNAA has allowed a few of the suggested procedures to be tried out on an experimental basis and while this is happening has virtually declared a moratorium on other ‘ special arrangement ’ proposals . |
| 7 | — Mr. Gould has left a blank for this name to be put in , in one of his M.S. pages . |
| 8 | The country has lost a fifth of its mangrove swamps , and many that used to line estuaries are now confined to narrow stretches separating hectares of dyked shrimp ponds . |
| 9 | ‘ It would come out I 'd got a first at London University . |
| 10 | as if I 'd hired a familiar for the crime . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , could n't you have sold a few of those ? ’ |
| 12 | I could have got a nine to five job but I never wanted one . |
| 13 | ‘ You must have got a few in the Houses of Parliament , ’ he said , smiling . |
| 14 | Personally , we at ZZAP ! prefer a nice quiet game of dominoes , but we do confess to having played a few of these strip poker games on the 64 before . |
| 15 | And then Danny McCann could have scored a second for Fairmile in the dying moments , but he shot over from a good position . |
| 16 | Died after collapsing on pitch , having hit a six in last-wicket stand in 2nd XI match against Shepherd 's Bush . |
| 17 | And at the end of the round when he was six off the lead , having taken a six at one of the par-4s , peter was n't worried . |
| 18 | But of course they are , and there is little doubt that neither Joyce nor myself could ever have achieved a tenth of the success we have without the help and support , not to mention the sheer selflessness and lack of ego , of the men who chose to love us . |
| 19 | Having read a few of your articles I tried sighting the neck by looking down from the headstock end ( as you frequently suggest ) and the neck appears to be very curved , almost banana shaped ! |
| 20 | In all , between 1773 and 1790 , he is reckoned to have spent £30,000 of his own money and to have devoted a third of his time to his crusade to record and improve prison conditions . |
| 21 | Instead , after I had anointed a few of the more important Poles with precious substances , I built a dam system . |
| 22 | Harringay — they 've took a few from Chelmsford , and as for the Blackburn Black Hawks , they used to be your team mates . |
| 23 | They were two of the biggest lunatics he had ever met , and he had met a few in his time . |
| 24 | Being in the charts is one of those things you always dream of but now I 've done a few of those things already . |
| 25 | But I 've seen a few of them on the slippery slope — the Shiny Set , the stars , the Washington |
| 26 | I realized I had seen a few of these same processions on my way north through eastern Czechoslovakia , in Ovitkov and in Ostrava . |
| 27 | Cricket director Bob Cottam said : ‘ Leaving him out would be the equivalent of dumping a batsman who had made a hundred on his Test debut . ’ |
| 28 | We 've answered a few of the queries you may have regarding the new Great Lengths Hair Extensions : |
| 29 | But I think they 've closed a few since then . |
| 30 | you know , well they 've done brilliantly but the market we 've b between us we 've got a good for the market . |