Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the particular disposition of the policeman or woman and the nature of the case , court duty can become an opportunity for them to have a ‘ good fight ’ , and pleasure can be taken in ‘ getting one over the solicitor ’ . |
| 2 | Plus , there 's a unique opportunity for you to purchase a Clothes Show Live carrier bag and catalogue . |
| 3 | The cherry blossom also symbolizes an opportunity for you to tap a powerful new source of experience and committed expertise which will help your business blossom ; the Mitsui Taiyo Kobe Bank . |
| 4 | There is no provision for it to order a payment on account of costs . |
| 5 | It was so much the sort of remark one could only make to a girl friend , but Rupert took it very nicely and said with only slightly forced heartiness , ‘ Jolly good , and it 's an excuse for me to have a better meal than usual , too . |
| 6 | I leave at 7.30am and by 8am have checked Skipper over and given him a small handful of feed in his manger ( which seems to keep him happy when other horses are fed and means I do n't have to wait an hour for him to digest a full feed ) . |
| 7 | Not every Zionist or Palestinian needs to be a fervent believer in this kind of credo for it to have a force and tenacity which can not be ignored . |
| 8 | I do n't believe that shit about you watch a video then all of a sudden you 're a Rambo . |
| 9 | The local youth centre raised the money for us to have a phone installed and we got a FreeFone number for the Exeter and Devon area . |
| 10 | If , as reported on Page One , the funds of the town council are as much as John Bennett states , perhaps they would advance the money for us to buy a new minibus , on suitable terms of course . |
| 11 | Should she concoct some story about him having a violently contagious disease ? |
| 12 | Take your mind off it Take a walk or a break |
| 13 | ‘ I know who John Thaw is of course , ’ he said , ‘ but I have never heard any gossip about him buying a house here . |
| 14 | The the only job which I told Neil I do not expect him to take is working for waste disposal because he did that , this time last year and before he started he was full of big talk about you make a lot of money and you get a lot of tips at Christmas he found that you do not make a lot of money and you do not get generous tips at Christmas |
| 15 | Your employer might be willing to purchase an annuity for you to make a one-off lump sum in commutation of your pension rights . |
| 16 | Yesterday Lucas factory manager Colin Hull said the firm was delighted to have been asked to host a visit from the princess as a result of her expressing a wish to include an industrial stop on her stay . |
| 17 | His ink drawing of the parsonage ( and the church with its tower across the road ) and a photograph of it show a large , long , impressive building on two floors , the front door surrounded by thirteen windows . |
| 18 | The worms can only live in compostable material so there 's no fear of them making a bid for freedom and eating their way through the vegetable patch . |
| 19 | Either side of him sat a large , so lid man : one caught Marcus 's eye and he began an earnest inspection of the floor . |
| 20 | At either side of her stood a faithful attendant , one being a confidential maid , the other a Miss Drake — an old , mittened companion , hardly younger in appearance than herself — both of whom watched her with eyes of solicitous reverence , and seemed always ready to collapse into quasi-religious curtseys . |
| 21 | On the far side of it stood a village of longhouses , much like the ones we had left back on the coast , except that these were entered by round doors instead of the normal rectangular ones . |
| 22 | This was designed to emulate the action of double bass tuners : ie. you turn the key towards you to tighten a string . |
| 23 | Oh , you do n't know anything about the plans he had for his dear daughter , and you stand there and talk of her marrying a man from the lowest scum family in Newcastle . |
| 24 | The track 's existence came under threat — there was talk of it becoming a gravel pit and it was , after all , a prime industrial area — but in 1982 tobacco giant Gallagher purchased the site and handed the important sections over to the Brooklands Museum Trust , erecting its new headquarters building where it would create least damage . |
| 25 | This president behind me led a delegation of er fourteen of us , one of 'em got a gold badge yesterday , Eric , half of 'em sat down there , and we went canvassing in Rochdale , last election , just before ninth of April , that disaster we had . |
| 26 | A small trainer like me has a job to tick over , let alone make a living , but he always comes to the rescue . |
| 27 | ‘ They have brought even those of us who hold that view to the point where we can imagine armed action against them to prevent a general Balkan war . ’ |
| 28 | We got into a partnership with them to develop a small engine a couple of years ago , for their application . |
| 29 | Laid mesh side up it gives a good base for carpets and tiles , and smooth side up it can be painted and stencilled to match design schemes . |
| 30 | Corals which are collected by taking a reasonable amount of rock with them have a much better chance of being undamaged than those which are prised off the substrate . |