Example sentences of "[verb] that [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking a share of the profits : Prior to s. 2(3) of the Partnership Act 1890 , the courts had decided that if a person took any share in the profits of a business this made that person a partner . |
| 2 | The girl asked that man a thing that he . |
| 3 | ‘ And here lies Aldhelm , who could have given that brother a face and a name , beyond any question . |
| 4 | I 'm suggesting we send that man a voucher for fifty pound that his company or he puts towards the next time they buy a full fare or an Apex and then we actually get fifty quid or a hundred and fifty quid . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've been refusing that man a cheque book for months but he just went inside and someone from senior management , who has n't been behind a counter for years , just hands one over without a thought . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's something that requires more work on the live side and I think that electronically we can manipulate that area a lot more . |
| 7 | And there were photocopies of press coverage of the famous 1982 march on the Porton Down chemical defence establishment and on the activities of the Hunt Saboteurs Association , including the famous quote from one Master of Fox Hounds advocating that horse-whipping a saboteur was , like beating his wife , a private matter . |
| 8 | You 've only had that car a fortnight and you 've already done about five hundred about four hundred and fifty pound worth of damage . |
| 9 | Thus , if an official lower down the organisation can influence those at the top to move in a certain direction then we could designate that person a leader . |
| 10 | ‘ I get to play that stuff a lot more live . |
| 11 | Well , I do n't believe that fur a start . |
| 12 | At that time , I could have got that girl a bed straight away in a decent place — I am not talking about a mattress on a floor . |
| 13 | If someone comes looking for trouble , you are expected to decline his or her offer and give that person a chance to back off . |
| 14 | So there has to be — and we always exaggerate that space a bit . |
| 15 | ‘ Let us decide to give that madness a miss . ’ |
| 16 | I enjoyed that session a lot . ’ |
| 17 | How could I expect my friends to understand that training a bird was virtually a twenty-four-hour-a-day job ? |
| 18 | I mean how long did it take that washer a week , if that |
| 19 | I asked Lord King of British Airways about the decision to buy Boeing aircraft and United States General Electric aero engines , giving that company a foothold in Britain at the expense of Rolls-Royce . |
| 20 | I 'll be giving that mixer a caning this year though . |
| 21 | I was giving that table a lot of attention . |
| 22 | ‘ How can my wife call that man a friend ? ’ he cried angrily . |
| 23 | It was soldiers returning from the battlefields who 're credited with making that election a labour landslide . |
| 24 | Shit , but I gave that bastard a headache ! ’ |
| 25 | You asked me if I 've got , Dad , can I get that pen a minute ? |
| 26 | You 've got ta let that cook a bit . |
| 27 | Whatever the merits of this interpretation , the fact remains that pre-training a stimulus as a CS- has been found , on occasion , to retard further inhibitory learning . |
| 28 | Right then we 'll have to move that bed a bit . |
| 29 | Right , er , people can take what bits from tables they want them , or , I 've got s , I 've got one put out , erm , shall we open that door a bit , it 's getting a bit hot in here , erm , do n't know if Mary wants any help out there . |
| 30 | Wherever it was , Roe apparently considered it an obstacle to his plans , and he indicated his intention of writing to Wilson offering that man a share , in consideration of relinquishing his rights and transferring these to the Macclesfield company . |