Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Girouard in The Return to Camelot pointed out that the chivalric code of conduct ‘ never recovered from the Great War partly because the War itself was such a shattering of illusions , partly because it helped to produce a world in which the necessary conditions for chivalry were increasingly absent ’ and that the absence of so many men at the Front ‘ had put women in a position of responsibility which made many of them distrust chivalry as a form of concealed slavery ’ . |
| 2 | However , my GCSE courses eventually led me to attend university as a mature student and now I hope to become a solicitor . |
| 3 | In several studies of small groups , Bales and his colleagues were able to generate a list of frequent behaviour categories to enable them to observe behaviour in a way that was relevant and consistent . |
| 4 | This will cause approval listings not to be produced when users prepare a package for approval using option 1.5.2 — Prepare package For Approval and will enable them to grant approval to a package immediately if they feel able to do so . |
| 5 | Does that I mean work by a from now on . |
| 6 | And I mean it is your sort of second home , and the guys that you work with every every week , I mean sort of become , I mean it 's a bit of a cliche to say , but I mean part of a family that you living out there that you live with out there and it is a real I mean when you think of the number that was lost , I mean there were a lot of close friends involved in it . |
| 7 | The Greater York figure does n't I think change as a consequence of what Mr Curtis has said . |
| 8 | I eat breakfast in a hall full of silent women . |
| 9 | ‘ I remain Chairman of a large company , Harrison and Crosfield , Chairman of the Dover Harbour Board , which is also looking towards privatisation , and I 've got a number of charities I 'm involved in . |
| 10 | I sought clarification on a point he had made at the press conference . |
| 11 | ‘ I got permission for a symbolic statue , and this giant Pumpman is the result ! ’ |
| 12 | Eventually I got hold of a Telecaster , but nowadays , apart from the 345 , I use Strats and Duo Sonics with a metal slide rather than glass . |
| 13 | ‘ I got hold of a book on careers , ’ she recalls ‘ Initially I opened it at ‘ marketing ’ and got really enthusiastic . |
| 14 | Mind you I was glad cos I got hell of a temper that I kept myself alright cos I was gon na swing for her like . |
| 15 | I got ride on a horse , poor horse with me on it |
| 16 | And eventually I got job on a scaffold . |
| 17 | ‘ I hate paperwork as a general rule , but as it 's for the good of the villagers , I 'll sort it out for you . |
| 18 | In my notes for the Raphael Trio 's Unicorn-Kanchana recording of the Beethoven Septet in the composer 's own transcription for piano trio , I drew attention to a small discrepancy between the trio version and the original . |
| 19 | For instance , with the gold orange marigolds , I used purpose as an outline , for the pink rose petals I used green . |
| 20 | She says : ‘ I used food as a substitute for happiness . |
| 21 | On my way back to Anastasia , I catch sight of a tree-creeper and watch him flit from tree to tree , scurrying mouse-like up their trunks as though nothing else had ever happened here . |
| 22 | At a great height I catch sight of a colobus . |
| 23 | They ask : Why should I give credence to a life that has imposed barriers on me ? |
| 24 | I interviewed Place in a midget submarine in Portsmouth dockyard similar to the one in which he and two other men had travelled up the long fjord in northern Norway at the head of which Tirpitz lay , cut their way through the nets surrounding her and laid charges beneath her hull which , when they exploded an hour later and Place was a prisoner-of-war on board her , put the ship out of action for six months . |
| 25 | But although I played lead for a long time in the group I never cite lead players like Clapton or Beck . |
| 26 | How can I provide ventilation for a gas fire in the lounge ? |
| 27 | I enjoy spirit in a woman until I 'm ready to crush it . |
| 28 | It was to these crucial years , therefore , that I turned attention in an endeavour to understand not the triumphal march of the party as such , but rather the broader cultural structures that laid the foundations for its success . |
| 29 | Were I to praise Love in a hundred thousand languages , Love 's beauty far surpasses such stammerings . |
| 30 | It was for that very reason that I declined appointment as a judge . |