Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , you met each other a lot , and w we know you had the kind of situations that |
| 2 | Harvey split the words into syllables and made each syllable a step in his dance , then he changed the accents round and danced the same remark again . |
| 3 | Taking a share of the profits : Prior to s. 2(3) of the Partnership Act 1890 , the courts had decided that if a person took any share in the profits of a business this made that person a partner . |
| 4 | The girl asked that man a thing that he . |
| 5 | Another hospital near Worcester became another home a year later . |
| 6 | Since Wilcox produced this analysis a number of the independent papers have either closed down — voluntarily or under compulsion — or been taken over . |
| 7 | Rain and Joseph faced each other a moment longer until Rain , too , went to the kitchen . |
| 8 | The young priest poured brandy from a decanter and handed each man a glass . |
| 9 | I enjoyed that session a lot . ’ |
| 10 | In the Groeger and Chapman study responses were made on a seven point response keypad with the question repeated each time a rating was required . |
| 11 | put it in the shop window in New York on St Patrick 's Day along with forty shades of green paperweights , the lacquered shillelaghs , and the wonderful world of deedeelee eedeelee eedeelee Irishness ; skipping dancing jolly little leprechauns in bright buckled shoes and battered hatted bow legged bright red drunken faced gombeen men with little devils in their laughing Irish eyes , mischievous gossipy white haired old women with shawls , pure white skinned colleens skipping carefree through green fields dutifully ready to return in an instant to domestic chores , strapping athletic lads with fine belts and sturdy boots ever willing to put in a fair day 's work or hit each other a clout . |
| 12 | They called each piece a degree and used the sign ° to stand for a degree , e.g. 360° 1 full turn . |
| 13 | Mr submitted this morning a letter from British Coal , erm I just wanted to place on record the fact that erm this is no more than erm a reiteration of a a previous holding objection to my client 's erm proposal for a new settlement within Selby District . |
| 14 | This was ideal for those hobbyist and experimenters who derived much fun a pleasure from making their computers ‘ sing and dance ’ in the real world . |
| 15 | Took some speed a friend turned up with so I ca n't get to sleep . |
| 16 | When the Golden Fish offered this man a reward he asked only for bread , which the creature promptly provided . |
| 17 | FRCN Kaduna took this argument a step further and in 1981 stopped reporting the activities of the two expelled governors or their supporters except when these were strictly official and non-political . |
| 18 | But on the Sunday , perhaps because it was a strange town and I had not yet made friends , I felt all day a sense of doom . |
| 19 | At a meeting this May the Agricultural Ministers agreed that reform was necessary and gave each other a deadline of June 1993 to come up with concrete proposals . |
| 20 | The BCG divided its matrix into four quadrants as shown in figure 4.1 and gave each quadrant a name to signify how the products in it should be treated . |
| 21 | And when they married , he gave each grandchild a wedding present from his own handiwork . |
| 22 | None of the writers realized that the Cubism of this date relied on a balance between abstraction and representation to achieve its effects , and that it was this balance that gave each work a significance on more levels than one . |
| 23 | Shit , but I gave that bastard a headache ! ’ |
| 24 | She got drunk at a party at work and gave some guy a blowjob in the storeroom . |
| 25 | In addition , the Provinces Division launched this year a quality audit initiative , involving every operation in a monthly audit to measure CCG 's contract performance in over 40 different ways . |
| 26 | Almost as sweet as when Giggs missed that penalty a year or so ago vs Soton in the FA Cup which meant they got knocked out … : - ) |