Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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1 | The accent made it sound a strange new game . |
2 | Teaching practice made me feel a lot less dispirited . |
3 | Others saw it as marking a shift in US perceptions of the OAS and a readiness to see it perform a new role in encouraging the closer economic and political integration of the hemisphere , in line with the US " Enterprise for the Americas " free trade policy [ see pp. 37651-52 ; 37914 ] . |
4 | With these difficulties in mind let us approach a second theory of review put forward by Gordon . |
5 | In one year 's time I would be doing At each stage you move backwards through time and ask your unconscious mind to help you see a picture of yourself being highly successful on your way to completion of your objectives . |
6 | They 've built a model of the Venetian coast to help them find a way of saving the historic Italian city from potential disaster . |
7 | All these species ( except Woodlarks and Red-backed Shrikes ) breed in other habitats , for example Stonechats in downland scrub , and Nightjars and Tree Pipits as commonly in young forestry plantations ( many of which were once heathlands ) ; but only on heathland do they form a distinct community , which is rapidly declining . |
8 | Mummy do I need a new one ? |
9 | Mummy do you want a straw ? |
10 | Yeah , Stuart 's card did you get a card off ? |
11 | O eight nine one double nine double one double four win a hundred pound do you win a copy of this book ? |
12 | A pitcher can spin a baseball to make it follow a trajectory in any direction . |
13 | But before I talk in more detail about how we hope to raise this money let me spend a little time explaining why I feel that this appeal is so vital to children everywhere . |
14 | It was a standard opening — the kind of play that made no real difference to the final outcome — yet somehow the boy made it seem a challenge . |
15 | EMF make it sound a hell on Earth . |
16 | Mr O'Donnell said he had agreed to go with McPherson on the night of his ordeal to help him steal a van from Tarbert . |
17 | All you have to do is to ask your parents or Guider to help you send a postcard to us . |
18 | If the parent feels they know a system that they have heard or read is successful , and if they try it out on the child and the child obviously enjoys it , if it becomes part of a game , then I ca n't see any harm in it , but I think the parent has to be scrupulously honest as to whether the child is enjoying it . |
19 | If the parent feels they know a system that they have heard or read is successful , and if they try it out on the child and the child obviously enjoys it , if it becomes part of a game , then I ca n't see any harm in it , but I think the parent has to be scrupulously honest as to whether the child is enjoying it . |
20 | Only now that he was safe did he feel a little black jet of fear rising in his chest , a gobbet of bile that filled his mouth , washing his teeth in acid . |
21 | Erm he will not have asked that time honoured question do you have a car otherwise he knows what er |
22 | To illustrate this point let us postulate a hypothetical , though possibly unattainable , unemployment rate U F which is the true full-employment unemployment rate : U F is that unemployment rate where at w * ; . |
23 | Extract 3 : Catford Girls ' Possee Let us take a close look now at what actually happens in this conversation . |
24 | For the moment let us take a look at the fortunes of the professionals , mostly unsung and unremembered , who played cricket or football for pay . |
25 | In any case the old man was n't the sort to let you take a close look at anything that did n't directly concern you . ’ |
26 | ‘ But time and again , chances for wit are lost through faulty emphasis , sheer inaudibility or reluctance to let us anticipate a line . ’ |
27 | The Maggot dipped the starboard wing to let me take a picture of the deep water channel that dog-legged in from the west . |
28 | This routine lets you add a dustbin to DOSShell . |
29 | Only when he has an embarrassingly large crop does he present a bunch to his wife , Pat . |
30 | Climbing in the rain makes you feel a lot more clever than it should rationally justify . |