Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First to tell me wins a signed photo of Jon Newsome : - ) |
| 2 | One of them frisks a large steel ashtray and hands a roach to another . |
| 3 | Leslie was disturbed to hear of this latest small trauma : ‘ It distresses me , ’ he wrote , ‘ to think of you being chivvied about in the way you are ; after all , the army supports me , and when it moves me thinks a wee bit about me . |
| 4 | ‘ Anyone who can beat me has a good chance of knocking out Holyfield , ’ he said . |
| 5 | None of them has a sore throat . |
| 6 | That as it were milkman 's stool with three legs and each of them has a certain amount of power and it is a question of the adjustment of that power and it is not the of the power to my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and yet when things go wrong , and they do , in police forces and in local auth police authorities , what happens , people turn round to the Home Secretary and say what are you going to do about it . |
| 7 | One of them has a fake beard . |
| 8 | That part of a social policy course that is concerned with describing policies and the institutions responsible for them has a clear face value to the social policy ‘ practitioner ’ . |
| 9 | For example , a man with a hundred head of cattle , sheep and goats trains his son to know them by their colour only or by their size and type of horns , while every one of them has a special name . |
| 10 | One of them has a handle-bar moustache ; another wooden deity , dredged not long ago from Lake Geneva , has a formless face , like those that melt and distort in Francis Bacon 's paintings . |
| 11 | Could you introduce er the people , your team , particularly as I think one of them has a different name to the label in front of them . |
| 12 | Each of them has a large leather money bag . |
| 13 | At various points in this book I have referred to such agents — among them nations , dynasties , social classes , elites of diverse kinds , generational , ethnic and cultural groups — and we have now to examine more closely their role in political life and especially the conditions under which one or other of them has a predominant influence . |
| 14 | ‘ Neither of the pair of them looks a likely case , ’ said the earl consideringly , ‘ to crush another man 's head with a stone , though there 's no saying what any man may do in extremes . |
| 15 | Year I develops a thorough understanding of programming principles , and provides a sound basis on which to build further programming experience . |
| 16 | I says a new declaration of intent has not yet been printed . |
| 17 | Anyway , Alison , that vicar of yours sounds a real attention seeker . |
| 18 | Smith and Hogan , Criminal Law , 6th edn , Butterworth , 1988 , 559 n6 , comment : " [ T ] his seems a surprising decision as it would surely astonish bankers to learn that by issuing such cards they are allowing their customers to borrow by way of overdraft to an unspecified amount " ( their emphasis ) . |
| 19 | These sugar units are ‘ sticky ’ ; when one of them meets a matching sugar chain sticking out from the membrane of an adjacent cell , the two recognize each other and become attached . |
| 20 | Like most good theories , theirs integrates a great accumulation of evidence which , once presented in a single context , makes the theory seem almost self-evident . |
| 21 | ‘ 'E needs a good romp in the fields , ’ and he looked at Willie , and I reckon you do an' all , he thought . |
| 22 | 'E sounds a right dopey git if yer ask me . |
| 23 | Neither are the risks merely physical when she encourages a direct association between looking at her art and consuming food and drink , but the vast array of psychological dynamics which can motivate purchases as humble as a cup of coffee guarantees that the decision to choose one bar over another is often less casual than browsing through galleries . |
| 24 | Jen might think she 's a bit tarty but she plays a tarty bit in it does n't she ? |
| 25 | In the course of the show she plays a young child ( Mamillius ) , a passionate middle-aged woman ( Paulina ) and a comic old man ( the shepherd ) with a verisimilitude that beggars belief . |
| 26 | Victoria , 39 , repeats the role in her Christmas special tomorrow when she plays a pram-pushing mother in a skit on daytime magazine programmes . |
| 27 | Mer-doll and T-shirt opportunities appear to be limitless ; making balance-sheet splashes are Disney 's The Little Mermaid and the upcoming Cher movie Mermaids — a tail story in which she plays a single mother of two who leads a less-than-respectable love life . |
| 28 | ‘ At this time of the year she sleeps a great deal , ’ said Simon . |
| 29 | Use then , as you roughly plan your book , some locality which for you evokes a strong mood . |
| 30 | She laughs a great deal . |