Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solicitors will not need to be reminded that for them to continue to act despite a conflict of interest is a breach of their duty to the court . |
| 2 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 3 | Both of them appear to suffer from a form of mental myopia in imagining the consequences of such proposals , and I am not here referring only to Mill-type consequences of harm brought about by unwise decisions . |
| 4 | Second , having set up syntagmatic units , we shall observe that many of them appear to operate in a variety of grammatical environments , and we shall have to ask ourselves whether some differences of grammatical usage of a particular form do not merit recognition as separate lexical items . |
| 5 | One of them has escaped from a particularly unusual commitment — he was once an angel , but has chosen to become a human being , for the love of humanity . |
| 6 | Erm , the executive are accepting all these motions but on a couple of them want to put in a speaker with a statement and er after twenty one will to put that statement to the C E C. I now call composite twenty abolition of Wages Councils South Western Region to move , G M B Scotland to second . |
| 7 | He 's not the kind of person any of them want to have as a friend . |
| 8 | And at me let fly with a ringing broadside . |
| 9 | As a newcomer to such work , I became involved through a meeting with Johanna Carrie . |
| 10 | I became engaged in a violent battle , first on behalf of the profession and subsequently as a mediator , when Mrs Barbara Castle — then the Secretary of State for Health and Social Security — pursued an honourable , but in my view misguided , determination to eradicate private practice from this country . |
| 11 | Life became so stressful that when I was making The Power Game the doctor put me on Mogadon and I became hooked for a while . |
| 12 | When I asked to speak for a moment with Miss Lavenza , a manservant showed me into a living-room and asked me to wait . |
| 13 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 14 | ‘ Nor do I want to indulge in a post-mortem — although I suppose it 's an appropriate description , if the thing between us is now dead . ’ |
| 15 | I mean looking at a book and see the distance between , in there they give you the distance between Leeds , Ipswich , Leicester and Scotland and then you come to kilometres and |
| 16 | It has n't all been smooth running of course , I mean working in a parliament with eighty separate national political delegations , working in t nine languages , I have to admit we 've made the odd slip . |
| 17 | I mean to start as a group home , well I mean it , of all the places , A it 's not like an ordinary home |
| 18 | I do n't have time to play but , I mean to play in a concert band or anything but I might go and knock about with it for a while . |
| 19 | I think he must be gay , I mean going into a monastery and not having anything to do with women and wearing a cravat |
| 20 | When , in his thirties , he took driving lessons and passed his test Dorothy refused to go out in the car with him : ‘ I intend to live to a ripe old age , thank you very much . ’ |
| 21 | Such an alternator would be of great use in a motorcaravan conversion I intend doing on a V8 Land Rover . |
| 22 | But if I insist on forcing the spontaneous towards an end which I already deem rational , I remain imprisoned within a circle of old concepts , reason goes on doing the same kind of sums , there can be no novelty except the discovery of unnoticed implications of the familiar . |
| 23 | Jamie and I got pushed about a bit and nearly fell down a couple of times , but we survived through to the end of the night without any scrapes . |
| 24 | In the end I got moved into a single cell : apparently a lot of this girl 's stuff went missing and she practically accused me . |
| 25 | so we started called her lip , but that happened before I got there so , as I got there it just like , as I joined got in with the regulars it started to peter out a bit , but I got fooled with a couple of times I thought they were taking the piss , alright Lynn how you doing , you know , still . |
| 26 | P. A. I got called as a witness in a motoring case , and it came up when I was on nights and I had to get up and call in the solicitor . |
| 27 | ‘ It was in Kabul that I got caught in a safe house , ’ another term he 'll always think of differently , ‘ by the secret police and I was put in prison . |
| 28 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
| 29 | I got bitten by a rat . |
| 30 | But on the day I went to Makaha I got distracted by a shapely wave and a firm offshore and met no one apart from a lifeguard in the tower and a girl on the beach . |