Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under its 1921 Constitution it has a government appointed by the Prince on the proposal of the 25-seat Landtag ( parliament ) , which is elected for a four-year term by universal adult sufferage . |
| 2 | He was also the publisher of the monthly Gentleman 's Magazine , and in its 1st January , 1859 number he published a letter from himself urging Scott to ‘ get rid of the foreign look which pervaded ’ his design for the Foreign Office , and to use English thirteenth-century architecture as his model . |
| 3 | In a 1952 revolution they overthrew a military regime and won nationalization of the large mines under workers ' co-management . |
| 4 | One afternoon she gave a pound short on the change which had showed up in emerald numerals before her face . |
| 5 | After hours , we went to a bar in Knightsbridge , where one afternoon I met a fifty-five-year-old Italian woman who was wearing white leather flared trousers . |
| 6 | At four o'clock one afternoon he heard a commotion on the landing outside , and his door was flung open . |
| 7 | During the 1987 election we set a carefully timed an organised arrival at a particular airport . |
| 8 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 9 | Turn turning then to just touch on the issues that I 've , we did n't cover yesterday for York , erm you 'll notice from our H One submission we have a slight difference of opinion with the County Council on the technical side of the er the calculation , we believe that the calculation , we believe that the calculation for York 's need rather than three three should be a four thousand figure , taking into account the the issue of concealed households and involuntary sharing . |
| 10 | He had several pets : a grey cat Maria , Shep the sheepdog who went everywhere with him over the fields , several birds including a lame pigeon that he loved to tease Maria with ; and one spring he reared a wild duck from the egg of an abandoned nest and was upset for weeks after the October day it finally flew away . |
| 11 | In the 1987 campaign he played a key role at Labour headquarters . |
| 12 | You look out one window you see a chicken , look out another window you see pigs . |
| 13 | Through one window he saw a bathroom , just like his own at home only a thousand times smaller . |
| 14 | He shook it and in one second it became a shiny top hat . |
| 15 | For perhaps one second it remained a river bank , but then it became the shingle and sand beach fifty yards from my childhood home . |
| 16 | At one point they had a lead of 22 minutes . |
| 17 | We were in a sort of back room , and at one point we gave a particularly loud whoop at a particularly long word and a waiter looked in to see if we were calling for anything and then went away . |
| 18 | He watched closely as she selected every garment , and at one point he took a dress from her , replacing it with another . |
| 19 | At one point I took a bowl of water to her : her mouth was bleeding and a trail of saliva dangled from her lower lip . |
| 20 | At one point I made a straightforward attempt to discover what principles were followed in the amalgamation of libraries which clearly would have involved duplication and manifold reasons for legitimate dispersals . |
| 21 | ‘ One evening we had a Rockin' |
| 22 | She had been the toast of Berlin but she was getting on by now when one evening she gave a Lieder recital in the Berlin Philharmonie . |
| 23 | One evening I discovered a place which had a band , and I heard music coming from it and just could n't resist it . |
| 24 | One evening he turned a small chair over on its side and said ‘ While I 'm gone , Geraldine , dear , could you work on turning this chair into a forest ? ’ |
| 25 | From one cage he removed a glossy coated rat , rolled the parchment into the phial attached to a hind leg , and let the animal go . |
| 26 | The trio of actors became close off set , though with Fonda a committed monogamist , Hopper and Nicholson often went off into the night ; on one occasion they shared a memorable experience with LSD , so memorable , in fact , that both men have chosen , separately , to recall it in detail , as best they could . |
| 27 | On one occasion they unearthed a blue taffeta ball dress with small bouquets of pink and cream brocade roses . |
| 28 | On one occasion he hired a Satanist , a monk who dabbled in the Black Arts . |
| 29 | On one occasion he placed a briefcase in the foyer of Kings Lynn Crown Court . |
| 30 | On one occasion he called a player into his office , took his hat from the hat-stand and threw it on the floor . |