Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I met them through an advert .
2 ‘ But somehow that mistake sort of propelled me into an approach which is still very significant to what I do .
3 ‘ Do you really wonder , ’ he asked me at an embassy function in west Beirut , ‘ why we wo n't claim compensation ?
4 I mean I could choose not to do an album , but when they asked me to an album that was exciting to say yes .
5 ‘ The warder came and told me to dress and led me to an officer of the court , ’ the small , self-effacing lawyer recalled in an interview on Saturday .
6 The proposals were given a cautious welcome by politicians on the left , but the right-wing parties decried them as an attempt to distract from the President 's and the government 's current unpopularity .
7 They made maximum use of the forum provided by the zemstvos and drew them towards an alliance with the liberal and constitutional movement emerging in the cities .
8 The Bidston Dock cranes have been a feature of the Wallasey landscape but unpopular with some local residents who regarded them as an eyesore and the cause of television reception problems .
9 ‘ Do n't you know that you caught me at an age when Taureans are at their most vulnerable ?
10 Perhaps she had heard our voices and used them as an excuse to break away from Henry Clerval .
11 And this week the Government used them in an attempt to ‘ rehabilitate ’ sex scandal Minister David Mellor .
12 He approached them with an offer to train them .
13 He regarded you as an opponent whom he was determined to get the better of , in whichever way he could . ’
14 The man was toying with him and treating him with contempt , by showing just how little he rated him as an opponent .
15 The applicant sought judicial review of the decison of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office on 26 June 1991 , in the course of criminal proceedings against the applicant , to seek to enforce his compliance with the requirement contained in a notice issued pursuant to section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 to attend at her offices and answer questions or otherwise furnish information in respect of her investigation of the applicant alone , afer she had caused him to be interviewed under caution on three occasions and thereafter charged him with an offence , at a time when and in circumstances whereby ( a ) the applicant 's application for legal aid had not yet been granted and he had neither legal advice nor legal representation available to him ; ( b ) the Director had stated that she would not cause the applicant to be further cautioned in compliance with Code C , paragraph 16.5 of the current Codes of Practice issued pursuant to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 .
16 This provided him with an army of allies — and potential spies — surrounding a wide area of the Livingstone Manor estate .
17 He intended to join the Indian Civil Service , but while he was at Oxford his father and his only brother died , and he inherited the family estate , which provided him with an income for the rest of his life .
18 As he sipped his wine in the bright , busy square , he thought that although the language was certainly a problem and one that he would have to continue to struggle with , it only provided him with an excuse , really , an excuse for why he had not been able to get down to the job of looking for Elsie .
19 He almost bustled to the far table where glasses and decanters provided him with an interval of escape from the lonely speechlessness that only Aunt Tossie understood .
20 It alone provided him with an ideal of peace .
21 Gassendi 's suspicion of the Aristotelian account is evident from his Exercises , and his study of Epicurean philosophy provided him with an alternative .
22 Would you rather I thrashed him within an inch of his life ?
23 Members of Leuchars mountain rescue team , who were on an exercise in the area , went to his aid and moved him to an area accessible for the helicopter .
24 ‘ What happened , Fabia ? ’ he relentlessly pursued her for an answer .
25 The citation described him as an officer of extreme gallantry , with the qualities of coolness and high powers of leadership under the most trying circumstances .
26 But halfway through the somersault she caught him by an ankle and held him dangling upside-down like a plucked chicken in a shop-window .
27 Then , in the afternoon , I came in from the garden and found her in an armchair , engrossed in a thick , glossy-looking book .
28 Mr Clay went on to tell of his visits to a bone-setter , who successfully healed him after an accident .
29 She was still the only female field operative in the organization but her gutsy determination and self-confidence had won over her male colleagues who now regarded her as an equal .
30 Of course , there also appear to have been a good number of people who regarded her as an eccentric or a ‘ mope ’ .
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