Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having gained the initial advantage , the company can then price at a level to give itself a profit but still deter rivals , who face higher costs from entering . |
| 2 | Er got two guides , a guide and a driver to tell you the truth . |
| 3 | When they 're still children a mother or a whore gives them a piece of broken mirror in which they trap a ray of the sun and reflect it into one of the Palace windows . |
| 4 | Being a temp gives you a good chance to try out different types of work before committing yourself to a permanent job , and also to size up the different companies . |
| 5 | A correspondent sent me the programme for the Annual Social of the Female Caseroom at the Ballantyne Press , held in Swan 's Tea Rooms in April 1906 . |
| 6 | Now let us take a look to see what the future might hold . |
| 7 | A minor skirmish with the bank on a hairpin gave us a puncture [ and heart failure ! ] . |
| 8 | Some Arabs in a tent gave them a little water and then the exhausted men finally stumbled into an outpost of the King 's Dragoon Guards . |
| 9 | Finally , remember that fishing from a punt gives you a tremendous advantage . |
| 10 | MEANWHILE a Gadspy sends us a Yorkshire Post cutting in which Foreign Office minister Tristan Garel-Jones is branded both racist and xenophobic . |
| 11 | Additionally , training and riding a horse teaches it a whole range of new habits in relation to its work and us . |
| 12 | ‘ At Christmas , a fan sent us the remains of their Christmas dinner , ’ recounts Patrick , with a measure of embarrassment , ‘ a potato , some stuffing , and a mince pie . ’ |
| 13 | I , however was lost in a daydream wondering what the Queen would be like . |
| 14 | In Norway , for instance , it is illegal for a barman to serve you a fresh drink until after you have finished the previous one . |
| 15 | The naming is crucial , for not only does this make it possible to contrast one kind of relationship with another , it also allows the group as a collectivity to determine what the " proper " behavioural concomitants of the relationship should be . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's not on at all for a brother-in-law to treat me the way you treat me . |
| 17 | Annie left him , and then , pregnant , offered herself in order to saddle him with someone else 's child — and this when he had just received a telegram awarding him a scholarship to Oxford . |
| 18 | Finally we asked very loudly if the store was going broke and somebody within earshot scooted out of a doorway to see what the ruckus was about . |
| 19 | ‘ A girlfriend made me a wonderful big , bright red jumper which I liked so much that I asked her to knit me another . |
| 20 | Mr Browning said : ‘ I shall now look for a lawyer to explore what the Ariadne Galleries are prepared to offer me . ’ |
| 21 | I 've got to take a second to tell you the whole so-called Iran scandal , I think hard to think of as a scandal . |
| 22 | When I was twelve , and I got baptized , erm a lady gave me a little text and it was from Joshua chapter one and it was verse nine and it says have I not commanded you be strong and courageous do not be terrified , do not be discouraged for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go and that 's a verse that I 've been able to remember and to thank God for on so many different occasions all through my training as a doctor and it 's , all the promises in the bible are absolutely true and you can rely on them because it 's not a book written by men but it 's a book written by God . |
| 23 | She says children can get it from a very tiny age and if you think of a child starting its every day , not even able to move its own limbs freely . |
| 24 | We can define the unknown in broad terms — " What would increase our margins here ? " — and this is really defining a search area In essence a question tells us the answer with which we would be satisfied : if our thinking can get us to this point we can stop that line of thinking . |
| 25 | She went for an hour and a half to give him a hot cooked dinner , which she had prepared in the morning , and to wash up afterwards . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't usually let a bloke kiss me the first time , ’ she said . |
| 27 | What is now required is a law making it a crime to act in , produce , distribute or sell films and videos depicting cruel and excessive violence . |
| 28 | He claimed there was a plot to make him a scapegoat for economic failures . |
| 29 | You do n't get 5,000 people in a gallery giving you a cheer . ’ |
| 30 | A man whose late father was a subscriber sent me the Electrophone programme for the month of May 1924 . |