Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And probably picking up another hundred pound hundred and twenty pound between them a week . |
| 2 | I also think it 's important that people have this sort of emotional side of it taught to them as well , you 're often taught like the straight , you know , the wee sperm and the wee egg come together and you get a baby , but you do n't , not taught about the emotional side of it a lot |
| 3 | One of Isambard 's advance party , and by the cut of him a man of importance . |
| 4 | ‘ Why is it that every time you open that pretty little mouth of yours a viper speaks ? ’ he said angrily . |
| 5 | So he goes quietly home , sits and watches the telly with her a while ; then , in the commercial break perhaps , he leans forward , taps her on the head with whatever he has selected for the job , waits a couple of hours , then rings us . ’ |
| 6 | Into the empty seat beside him a passenger joined him . |
| 7 | The Merger Regulation indicates in its recitals that if the parties ' combined market share does not exceed 25 per cent in the EC or in a substantial part of it a merger between them is unlikely to impede effective competition . |
| 8 | they are required to do five hours work for you a day |
| 9 | She she gets hold of her a lot now do n't she ? |
| 10 | Mm yes , erm since the home office secretary 's initiative it 's progressing quite well , with interest from certainly Bassett , Newark Stanton on the Wolds Tollerton and some other of the rural Coldfield areas were interested in going forward , Bassett looked very very interested , we went to a meeting last night , eighteen parish councils were represented , er Beckingham is going to be the first one , they 've got a special that lives there who 's gon na take up the work , Superintendent came down last night to do a circular of em a questionnaire around the village and parish to get find out what people want , and then go and see what the specials able to provide and meet the two together and get some sort of contractive agreement , he 'll work from the police house there , he 'll have access to the car , when it 's not being used by the rural officer , also his radio . |
| 11 | Basically I 'm gon na do a collection of love poetry with you a selection of religious poetry focusing on the holy sonnets in the religious poetry . |
| 12 | Tuan Ti Fo smiled , holding the boy to him a while , conscious yet again of how insubstantial he seemed . |
| 13 | On the golf-course behind him a foursome of players shouted to one another as they approached the fourteenth green . |
| 14 | Every account has in charge of it a manager , usually called an account director or account executive , whose job is to make sure both that the client 's needs are met and that the agency makes a profit . |
| 15 | He commandeth you to weep ; and that princely One , who took up to heaven with Him a man 's heart to be a compassionate High Priest , became your fellow companion on earth , by weeping for the dead ( John 11.35 ) . ’ |
| 16 | On the shelf beside them a PMR set was gabbling away in a foreign language . |
| 17 | A fourth or a special name for it a quarter |
| 18 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
| 19 | We broke the back of it a lot on the work that we did for Rickmansworth . |
| 20 | We may take it that the utilitarian in him could accept with Ricardo 's labour theory of value his hostility to landlords , who might be regarded as unproductive and bone-idle , and share with him a reluctance to extend that hostility to master-manufacturers . |
| 21 | Paying tribute to him a colleague said today : ‘ He was a man of the highest integrity and his death represents a great loss to the Northern Ireland legal system . ’ |
| 22 | Once there was a couple of girls who had had their babies and they 'd say to you , " Change the baby for us while I run upstairs and get so-and-so " or " Will you feed the baby for me a minute ? " or " Can you make up some feeds ? " |
| 23 | If the Secretary of State has considered a proposed merger and made a decision as to clearance or otherwise in respect of it a fee will also be payable even if no application for clearance has been made . |
| 24 | ‘ Aw for gawd 's sake give that bloody tongue of yours a rest will yer ? ’ |
| 25 | Unheard in the tuft of grass behind him a voice cried : ‘ Patrick , hear this , I love you ! ’ |
| 26 | Our chairman , Mr Denis Hill-Wood [ son of Sir Samuel ] , put it succinctly when he discussed the board 's role with me a number of years ago . |
| 27 | BELVILLE : [ surprised at this prudery — and wishing to be off ] My dear , I count every hour of absence from you a day but you may believe I can not help it . |
| 28 | I forgot to add a covering note in sending Jenny 's paper to you a day or two ago . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't quite know what that 's supposed to mean , ’ he said severely , ‘ but sometimes I think you pull rank on me a bit , Cassandra . |
| 30 | The intensity of her response to him a minute ago filled her with self-loathing , but she was afraid too , because suddenly it seemed as if hatred was no longer enough to counter the threat he presented , and yet it was the only answer she possessed . |