Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She closed her eyes for a second , and then opened them to see a glimpse of concern on Guy Sterne 's dark face . |
| 2 | A passenger sitting next to me flung a coin into the river with great enthusiasm . |
| 3 | Two thirds of them scratch a living from the soil . |
| 4 | If we look at the Church we find the numbers of monks and secular clergy growing , especially in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ; we also find that more and more of them lived a life of celibacy after the papal reform . |
| 5 | ‘ Designing a ring is always a lengthy process which involves me producing a number of drawings until the customer and I get it right between us . |
| 6 | ‘ I believe I have two more years of top-class rugby in me and I want them to include a return to the England team . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't be so fucking patronising , ’ she said , turning her back on me to continue a conversation with Geraldine Porter . |
| 8 | Shortly after the formation of Apple Films ( a subsidiary of the Beatles ' Apple Corps Ltd ) , Ringo and his associate Hilary Gerard had approached us to help them make a film about Arthurian legends and " Magical Britain " . |
| 9 | But do n't let them make a pig of you . |
| 10 | Carvajal was survived by a wife and two sons : one of them became a broker on the exchange , but neither of them seems to have married . |
| 11 | But erm , yes , so I still do n't know what 's happening with that yet , and I 'm waiting also for them to confirm a date for this first sort of Do Business in France seminar , that we 're going to help them with , which was originally going to be February , and is now going to be March . |
| 12 | ‘ It would appear there is every chance of them maintaining a relationship in the future . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You mean , you knew all along , but you let me make a fool of myself ? ’ |
| 14 | They make me want a lot of things that I never had . |
| 15 | Alec Reid was wonderful — not only physically , carrying pans of hot water to the stove when necessary , but morally , in allowing me to treat a patient in such an unorthodox fashion . |
| 16 | Short , high-intensity bursts of neutrons will be produced 50 times a second by accelerating protons by potentials of up to 800 million volts , and steering them to hit a target of heavy material — uranium . |
| 17 | It made me think a lot about photography while I was in prison ; it was like why are you doing this ? ’ |
| 18 | Well they 've been very direct and they 've been having to make me think a lot about what I 'm doing . |
| 19 | I have few clues that would let me construct a picture of my mother 's childhood , that would explain her denial of mine as my own , and the rage that came with that denial . |
| 20 | It was perhaps ironic too , that six more sections were cut at Great Casterton , and none of them produced a scrap of pottery from the rampart later than the early second century . |
| 21 | He wanted me to see a specialist in Harley Street , but I 'd heard so much about your clinic and Doctor Volkov , I said I wanted to consult her . |
| 22 | I 'm off home for the morning , but you 're wanted to come with me to see a VIP about a missing person . |
| 23 | Knowing that such disturbances can occur , why should consumers agree to a form of contract which , in such circumstances , forces them to acquire a quantity of goods at the agreed price which they consider sub-optimal ? |
| 24 | About 5,800 of the West Midlands force 's 7,000 drivers have undergone tough advanced driving courses allowing them to drive a car with a siren . |
| 25 | New theories about education challenged women 's intellectual credentials since most of them lacked a knowledge of the classics . |
| 26 | One of them made a stand for repeal of the Corn Laws , which must have taken some guts in this neck of the woods . ’ |
| 27 | A couple of them made a break for it . |
| 28 | This no doubt explains one of Hudson 's tests on the schoolboys , which asked them to write a description of a scientist 's wife , and a novelist 's wife , not a novelist 's husband . |
| 29 | Perhaps I have been over enthusiastic about this project , but there was something about the schools I visited , and I am no stranger to African primary schools , which seemed to me to provide a recipe for steady progress . |
| 30 | They also persuaded him to sign a declaration stating that he had been cautioned , which enabled them to obtain a set of fingerprints . |