Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the mesh , she told Sally the next time she saw her , I 'm sorry I made that mistake about you having a sister she said to Sally , I 've written to tell mother you 've said you have n't one she must of been mistaken what your mother said . |
| 2 | But erm it 's just having that one room with a kitchen I think for if someone calls probably you see . |
| 3 | She was not prosecuted ( though clearly she could have been ) under section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 , possibly because the Government had just had its nose bloodied by a jury in the Clive Ponting trial , a case we deal with in Chapter 5 . |
| 4 | They say that in such a case you search for your mother for the rest of your life . |
| 5 | Well , it 's a , it 's a , it 's a case I suppose of , of science revealing the obvious , but er , of , of course it 's a fact today , we know why it 's a fact . |
| 6 | Well I worked there and then er quite a bit I had to w they had me working on the main road . |
| 7 | but erm Mr took t felt a bit I think about er |
| 8 | Er , he may be concerned but my Lord erm , there has been reference to the er the professional negligence and and my Lord there is a bit I have in court , I 'm afraid the second edition because the third edition which is the latest , was not available to me this morning , but there 's a paragraph in it and I want to refer your Lordship to it , I wonder if I might read it and er hand it up to your Lordship . |
| 9 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 10 | I infer from that that if my views are modified in a direction he approves of , I might stay . |
| 11 | Yeah catching rabbits a hedge and cut down a stick you know at the corn on the old and if we were lucky we used to get erm we used to er seat the old fella on the boiler and have a ride round on one of the horses . |
| 12 | ' ’ It was just a decision we came to . |
| 13 | You only have to look back over what 's er happened over the last few years in terms of for example O S Two , Microsoft Windows , a variety of Unix , and you 'll see that technologies will come along and however sound a decision you make at one point in time the market circumstances and potentially mean that what was right for you then not the right . |
| 14 | I think that some people may not realise fully too is that in order to make a decision you have to be full informed , and teachers are very busy people and a teacher really is spending nearly every moment of his day either teaching or preparing to teach , and it 's impossible , therefore , to establish in a school or a community college the faculty committee structure that one might have in a university , where people do probably spend some time informing themselves before debate . |
| 15 | We 're taking a hundred and fifty odd thousand out from a budget we have for additional staffing , and we 're also taking |
| 16 | That 's just like my dad — he 's always on about what a struggle he had in the days of his youth and I get it all too easy . |
| 17 | He realized he had n't been anywhere , that it had been a trick they played on him to see if he spoke German . |
| 18 | What a trick you played on him ! |
| 19 | Merely a trick you learned in college . |
| 20 | First , a trick I learnt from a newspaper article about a discovery in psychology . |
| 21 | Without waiting for a response he stepped into the thicket . |
| 22 | This is the printer driver of the future and consists of software and a cartridge you plug into your laser printer . |
| 23 | that 's two lines as well , I mean if , if you only have a tenner it pays for your afternoon out |
| 24 | ‘ I need hardly tell you , ’ he continued in his dry voice , ‘ what a blow you dealt to she who cared so much for your welfare . |
| 25 | Like a prescription it needs to be taken to be a cure , like a recipe it needs to be cooked to be eaten , like a cheque it needs to be cashed to be spent . |
| 26 | In fact , my recent painting of Paddington Station was inspired by a sketch I made in 1953 when I was still a student . |
| 27 | If you go up and want a T-shirt you go to that pile . |
| 28 | She 'd come into the women 's group after the others had spent some time talking about their individual relations to femaleness ; feminism for her was a safe place , a rhetoric spoken to her by other women , a description they made of her , a set of ideas they had worked out and which she acquired to wear as a badge . |
| 29 | And yer occupation of wood preservation consultant is not exactly a description he comes across every day . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Killing is like a drug it gets to be a way of life . |