Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I made Midnight Express I had to play a man who was in a permanent messed-up state . |
| 2 | I had agreed to this in case I had to have a Caesarian . |
| 3 | With some difficulty I managed to get a permit to travel from Parma in a bus which went up into the hills to Lagrimone ; once there , I would walk to the house of a Signor Ugolotti , some distance from the village . |
| 4 | After a slow first hour I started to get a few better fish , roach and skimmers . |
| 5 | If it were not for the fact that he was one of the favourites you 'd have been delighted but as a Gold Cup winner I had to feel a bit disappointed . |
| 6 | For my additional assessment I had to plan a facility for a chosen client group . |
| 7 | At university I chanced to meet a detective sergeant who had been in the Durham drug squad outside the Sociology building in New Elvet , Durham city . |
| 8 | I went to the Maly Opera Theatre that night and saw Verdi 's Otello , and with the voices still occupying my mind I decided to take a subway down the Nevsky and have a drink at the Astoria . |
| 9 | At the beginning of the riot I went to take a picture of this one anarchist and he whacked me with a stick really hard . |
| 10 | The school had a guidance programme which needed to develop a range of activities and contacts with employees , trainers and further education institutions so that students could make career choices in an informed and knowledgeable way . |
| 11 | The case involved sales of Brazilian groundnut extraction which proved to contain a proportion of poison . |
| 12 | Barbara McCall talks about the days in the 20s when her husband was assistant manager at the massive Marine Gardens in Portobello — the largest ballroom in Britain — and how he discovered a young soldier singing in a beach talent contest who grew to become a star — Donald Peers . |
| 13 | There was a conflict between the role and the man , between the priest who wanted to lead a hidden life and the public persona who worked within a regime of absolute power which he faithfully served while understanding the need to revolt against it . |
| 14 | To sit down in a cafe you had to buy a cup of tea . |
| 15 | Her bosses , unlike some , loved achievers , and encouraged her to write and broadcast , until with the publication of her biography The Improbable Puritan she left to become a full time writer . |
| 16 | But after a term she decided to take a different route , bookshop experience , a degree in English , more bookshop experience , and some in wholesaling . |
| 17 | This meant that to go for a crap you had to take a shovel and dig a hole which was hard work when the ground was solid . |
| 18 | In Cocks v. Thanet DC the House of Lords applied this rule and held that an applicant who wanted to challenge a decision of a local authority to the effect that he was intentionally homeless and so not entitled to be housed , had to use AJR procedure because his only rights in respect of the decision were public law rights , namely that the decision would be made in accordance with rules of public law . |
| 19 | Not your fault they had to hire a bloody crane ! |
| 20 | Provisions in a contract which purported to give a non-judicial body exclusive power to decide questions affecting the rights of contracting parties would be void as contrary to public policy . |
| 21 | The legislature concluded that it was inconvenient for leases for the duration of the war to be void and therefore by the Validation of War-time Leases Act 1944 Parliament provided , by section 1(1) , that any agreement entered into before or after the passing of the Act which purported to grant a tenancy for the duration of the war : |
| 22 | On March 30 , 1990 , the Bundestag approved a gene technology law which aimed to create a legal framework to regulate the area and remove the legal uncertainties that had existed before , including those resulting from the Hoechst case . |
| 23 | His car was hit head-on by another vehicle which swerved to avoid a cow that had strayed onto the bush road . |
| 24 | The jury , also a an international body , then selected twelve semi-finalists , each of whom played a quintet with the Tokyo String Quartet , and a recital which had to include a piece commissioned by the board for the competition , and of which , therefore , there was no standard interpretation . |
| 25 | On her way to her desk she tried to collect a beaker of iced water but the machine was empty and a knot of querulous men were standing around it demanding something be done . |
| 26 | WPP IS to be paid $7m ( £4.3m ) in an out-of-court settlement of its long-running legal battle against former executives of its Lord Geller subsidiary who left to form a rival agency with backing from Young & Rubicam , the US advertising giant . |
| 27 | There was the chemist who toyed with the possibilities of making synthetic gas for a balloon , the aerodynamic expert who planned to construct a glider out of bed boards , and the dog-lover who wanted to make himself a dog-skin out of an Irvin flying suit and crawl out as one of the guards ' Alsatians . |
| 28 | No , no , if you go , if you went on a philosophy you wanted to take a degree in English and philosophy you do n't know any more o than the next person about |
| 29 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 30 | The floor was of ancient stone slabs , hard on the feet , from which in winter there seemed to rise a damp , foot-numbing miasma . |