Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [verb] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Same as sex , you got ta try that a few times and then find out if you like it ! |
| 2 | He was , however , dissuaded from holding that a man 's belief in consent must be reasonable because of the wording of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 , s.1 , which provides that it is an offence for a man to rape a woman . |
| 3 | There is no suggestion that people directly involved with Kingfisher profited from knowing that a bid was imminent . |
| 4 | Yet what good came from knowing that a woman had killed herself ? |
| 5 | Gorbachev began by stressing that a " yes " vote would " preserve the integrity of the state which is a thousand years old " . |
| 6 | The Court of Appeal laid down some rough guidelines in Froom v Butcher [ 1976 ] QB 286 when it decided that the defendant who succeeded in establishing that a plaintiff 's injuries could have been avoided by wearing a seat belt would have the benefit of a 25 per cent reduction in the plaintiff 's damages , even though the plaintiff was otherwise an innocent party . |
| 7 | He started by claiming that a statutory minimum wage would result in three quarters of a million jobs losses . |
| 8 | They only mated with each other — the old ones went into mourning if a child dared to marry out . |
| 9 | One of the men I spoke to said that a colleague of his had identified the terrorist suspect from a photograph Carella had shown him . |