Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poems order experience and share it ; understanding them and writing them involves an act of creativity , and in both activities there is a kind of joy involved when the order of words , or insight into the effect of that order , corresponds with the way things are . |
| 2 | Both sides were now preparing for war , but Norfolk and Rent made another attempt at mediation in mid-December when they wrote to all the prelates asking them to attend an assembly in London to discuss the king 's failure to abide by his coronation oath and Magna Carta . |
| 3 | Once , owing to a printer 's understandable failure to decipher my proof corrections , a book of mine appeared with a recipe which called for the whisked whites of 123 eggs … no reader has ever written to me demanding an explanation of this recipe . ) |
| 4 | But we were told recently by a delegation from the french Senate , studying British methods of scrutiny of Community legislation , that they had great difficulty in obtaining copies of Commission legislative proposals and that it had been necessary for them to establish an office in Brussels to ensure a reliable supply . |
| 5 | Hitherto , confident reports from senior commanders and censorship had between them created an impression of light losses , but great numbers of prisoners taken . |
| 6 | These questions must be addressed , even if they can not be precisely answered ; simply raising them has an effect on the way old people are viewed and the action which it is deemed appropriate to take . |
| 7 | For the person with these projects the forwarding of them has an importance to which utilitarianism can not do justice , for it must regard them as simply among the many preferences of which as many as possible are to be satisfied . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) The Director may by notice in writing require the person under investigation or any other person to produce at such place as may be specified in the notice and either forthwith or at such time as may be so specified any specified documents which appear to the Director to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation or any documents of a specified description which appear to him so to relate ; and — ( a ) if any such documents are produced , the Director may — ( i ) take copies or extracts from them ; ( ii ) require the person producing them to provide an explanation of any of them ; ( b ) if any such documents are not produced , the Director may require the person who was required to produce them to state , to the best of his knowledge and belief , where they are . |
| 9 | ‘ His Grace , the Bishop of Glasgow , ’ Corbett replied , ‘ has asked me to request an audience with the Lady Yolande in order to clarify certain matters regarding the death of her late husband , King Alexander III of Scotland . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Since I became an officer in the SS , I 've often been in a position to satisfy my craving . ’ |
| 11 | I became an expert at putting my rollers on in the dark and listening to the Top Twenty under the sheets . |
| 12 | I became an exile in my own land . ’ |
| 13 | You see , when I became an inspector on the railway eventually , it was like a fire being damped down . |
| 14 | I faced this onslaught yesterday as I became an assistant in Selfridges on the second day of their sale . |
| 15 | MacArthur is modestly surprised by all the praise and talk of awards that has greeted her recent performances : ‘ These roles have a lot to do with the reason I became an actress in the first place — I still think of my career as being about to begin ! ’ |
| 16 | shall I make an effort to be |
| 17 | Shall I make an appointment for you ? ’ |
| 18 | I favour an increase in subscription because the collection of a separate contribution would entail further costs … |
| 19 | ‘ Dear Mr Ken Ward , I made an order for the survival bag as you kindly indicated . |
| 20 | I made an incision across each mark , and established the presence of extravasated blood . ’ |
| 21 | I made an offer to the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside that he may well recall . |
| 22 | I am not sure what the hon. Member for Worsley ( Mr. Lewis ) is trying to say , but although I made an offer to his hon. Friend the Member for Alyn and Deeside , the hon. Gentleman did not come to see me . |
| 23 | Since I made an arrangement with the man in your office I am having a baby and my doctor says I should be getting more of it . |
| 24 | I made an appointment with the head librarian of a prominent teacher-training college . |
| 25 | ‘ I made an appointment for us to see Mr Barnes — your mother 's solicitor — at ten o'clock tomorrow morning . ’ |
| 26 | Next day I did n't feel so bad and I made an appearance for a charity — I really had to do it — then went to visit a relative the following day . |
| 27 | I announced an increase of grant in aid of 10 per cent. , roughly two and a half times the present rate of inflation . |
| 28 | I declare an interest in this matter , as I am the parliamentary adviser to the National Licensed Victuallers Association . |
| 29 | I declare an interest in , on item nine part B. |
| 30 | I just wanted to say to you , firstly I declare an interest in OxRad , not pecuniary , of course , with money , however , but it is on behalf of charities , it is the only way they can generally raise some two three hundred pounds in a day , or sometimes a little more , that is a tremendous help to charities . |