Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We well ca n't you sort of give us an idea of what it 's about , the words and things you know and |
| 2 | Right the idea of this little chat this briefing before we go out and do the er driving assessments next week is just to sort of give you an idea and a and a bit of an inroad into what we 're looking at and what we 'll be doing next week . |
| 3 | To bring a level of order and modesty to Fleck 's life Norwich took the unprecedented step of paying him an allowance of only £29 per week and preserving the remainder of his salary to pay off the debts . |
| 4 | Funny way of looking at it I know but it 's sort of to give you an idea of how how the different ways you can actually do this this mechanism and brings out the er variations . |
| 5 | But there was nothing she could do about it , short of giving him an explanation for the presence of Richard 's car outside her flat . |
| 6 | This initiative , in the event , paid off handsomely , both in terms of profit and in terms of giving us an illusion of independence when one of our consortia , which we shared with the Burmah Oil company , discovered oil in what is now the Ninian field . |
| 7 | He could he was a brilliant machinist and er oh crikey I 've seen him turn out a a three throw er crankshaft within a couple of days er you know without any precise measuring and and and in fact he just sort of put his roll on on on a on the shaft he was turning and just sort of gave him an idea as to I mean his eye was almost as good as many a bloke 's measur measurement with a rule . |
| 8 | Further , the employment of an agent may be such as to give him an authority to contract on behalf of his principal generally with regard to a wider or narrower class of affairs ; and as between the principal and third parties such authority can not be limited by restrictions imposed by the principal , but not known to third parties . |
| 9 | Bramber … hardly deserves the name of a town , having not above fifteen or sixteen families in it , and of them not many above asking you an alms as you ride by ; the chiefest house in the town is a tavern , and hear , as I have been told the vintner , or ale-house keeper , rather , for he hardly deserved the name of a vintner , boasted , that upon an election , just then over , he had made £300 , of one pipe of a canary . |
| 10 | Dealers have talked their companies ' financial administrators into giving them an advance , then have left . |
| 11 | His opportunity comes when a lone housewife is murdered by a psychopath and shortly after he himself catches " flue and reckons he can trick the doctor into giving him an alibi that he is too ill to get out of bed . |
| 12 | Thank you for giving me an opportunity for the future . |
| 13 | THANK you , too — for giving me an opportunity to put you right on a simple matter of fact . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm grateful to Omagh and Roy McCreadie for giving me an opportunity to get back into senior soccer . |
| 15 | Thank you again for giving us an opportunity to view your proposals at this stage . |
| 16 | I thank the hon. Member for Ilford , South ( Mr. Thorne ) for having initiated the debate and for giving us an opportunity to discuss some of the implications of the Secretary of State 's announcement earlier in the week . |
| 17 | Of course he opposed the Reform Bill itself , yet said in a letter to Crabb Robinson ( 5 February 1833 ) : ‘ You mistake in supposing me an Anti-Reformer — that I never was , but an Anti-Bill man , heart and soul . ’ |
| 18 | The servants had not been keen to let him see the man , but his rank and vague remarks about the importance of co-operation with the Grand Army had succeeded in securing him an interview . |
| 19 | I 'd behaved so badly towards you right from the beginning that you were justified in calling me an ogre . |
| 20 | But he thought there was advantage in giving it an opportunity to do so . |
| 21 | In spite of its brilliant career , the society 's delay in giving it an award of merit and a first-class certificate indicates unusual prudence , for ‘ the Château Yquem of apples ’ , as E. A. Bunyard described it in 1929 , did not receive these confirmations of its quality until 1962 . |
| 22 | It is for this reason that the work of the potters is of such interest , in giving us an insight into shifts in taste and , possibly , shifts in the power base too . |
| 23 | Legal records are unique in giving us an inkling of how people of the age saw the world about them . |
| 24 | A useful way of keeping candidates to the order which suits you , apart from giving them an idea of the sequence of questioning at the top of the interview , is to preface each group of questions with an explanatory sentence or two . |
| 25 | And he must be mad to want to shunt him into the sidings before throwing him an England shirt again . |
| 26 | Without giving her an opportunity to reply , she went on , ‘ As for yourself , I have the most splendid notion ! |
| 27 | He went on to criticize the Holy Office for acting as judge and jury when it condemned theologians without giving them an opportunity to know what they were accused of , or of responding . |
| 28 | This implication will be made upon the basis that Parliament is not to be presumed to take away parties ' rights without giving them an opportunity of being heard in their interest . |
| 29 | No it 's not realistic because you know that there are thousands of people involved with the in the Garrimpos and er there is no way you could er shut them down without offering them an alternative . |
| 30 | When Roderigo , ‘ this poor trash of Venice ’ , leaves , Iago tells us that his plan is still vague , but that he intends to bring Othello to the point where surface and reality are so inverted that he will ‘ thank ’ Iago for making him an ass , In the event , Iago succeeds in making Cassio drunk , proceeds to ‘ put ’ him into an ‘ action ’ that — just like the tribunes ' manipulation — degrades him yet ‘ approves my dream ’ ( II.iii.58ff. ) — his fantasy or plan of success . |