Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos she was trying to find a , a reason or an excuse to sue them for it . |
| 2 | The fact that he had never asked the man if he 'd been able to fix the problem , Folly suddenly realised , was proof enough that the supposedly leaky tap was just an excuse to provide her with a chaperon . |
| 3 | It may be lack of understanding of the appropriate diet or an inability to put it into practice . |
| 4 | But , alas , one 's head must be permitted to rule , and so I will say only this : a little house where I may be safe , with an income to enable me at least to enjoy the comforts of life , if not its luxuries . |
| 5 | The last was an inspired idea , a riding horse with an acreage to keep it on being quite a status symbol . |
| 6 | An ambulance took an hour to take him to Warrington . |
| 7 | Bernice calculated that it would take the best part of an hour to reach them on foot . |
| 8 | They enjoyed teasing Liz about her pretensions , and rarely had an opportunity to tease her in the presence of Charles . |
| 9 | I have today won a concession from the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , in as much as he is going to give a delegation from the Southampton and district licensed victuallers an opportunity to see him at the Department to talk over some of these matters . |
| 10 | Instead , having been assured that Rick no longer had any violent feelings towards her , she earnestly pleaded that she had long been awaiting an opportunity to return it in person and apologise for causing so much distress . |
| 11 | As he had always suspected , she was just waiting and watching for an opportunity to rip him to pieces . |
| 12 | He had taken the Thompson with him for a practical demonstration and afterwards had not had an opportunity to exchange it for the army 's normal issue Sterling gun . |
| 13 | In fact , Benedetti , himself a specialist in Caravaggio , did not recognise the hand of the master until the picture was taken down three years ago and he had an opportunity to examine it under a strong light . |
| 14 | For the present it would be advisable not to report such allegations without giving the person defamed an opportunity to refute them in the same report . |
| 15 | A temporary assistant lecturer 's post was available in my Department at U.C.L. Apparently , my Head of Department , , was happy to appoint me , but before the decision was made , he offered his new professorial colleague , , an opportunity to interview me for the job . |
| 16 | A rich and aged relative , who has little use left for his wealth , refuses to give him the money he needs to go to Bali ( he has at last made up his mind ) , but there is an opportunity to steal it from him . |
| 17 | Nurses claimed she had waited most of that time for an ambulance to take her to another hospital . |
| 18 | She was waiting for an ambulance to take her to St Thomas ' Hospital . |
| 19 | However , when he later became drowsy she telephoned for an ambulance to take him to hospital . |
| 20 | They found it difficult to rouse him and on seeing the bottle of tablets on the floor next to him , called an ambulance to take him to hospital . |
| 21 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that it was implicit in the Housing Act 1957 that a local authority must serve a demand for expenses before bringing an action to recover them under section 10(3) ; but that the requirement to serve such a demand before taking action was a mere procedural step which was not part of the cause of action and that , save as expressly provided by section 10(4) for summary proceedings , the period of limitation began to run from the completion of the works ; and that , accordingly , the action was statute-barred ( post , pp. 126F–G , 129E — 130B ) . |
| 22 | For centuries therefore , statute has placed a limit on the time after which a claimant to an interest in land may bring an action to establish it in the face of the possession of another person holding under a later title … |
| 23 | Now of course with wardrobes that are three foot wide it 's an impossibility to get them up the stairs . |
| 24 | The League ruled that the striking off of Grima from the Widnes register and an attempt to replace him with the Tongan forward , Boblyn Tuavao , was ‘ unacceptable ’ . |
| 25 | Sadly little attempt to discuss Eakins work in terms of nineteenth-century Realism or its American philosophical context — an attempt to compare him with Whitman is not fully argued — but the remarks on his Quaker background are telling . |
| 26 | An attempt to lull him into a false sense of security . |
| 27 | He was arrested in 1983 in New York , but an attempt to extradite him to the UK as a convicted criminal failed when a judge ruled that his crime was political . |
| 28 | On April 2 Anania Bartolomeu , a founder member of a study group for the renovation of the Orthodox Church , had reportedly visited Teoctist in an attempt to dissuade him from returning . |
| 29 | In addition to these sermons on the principal Holy Days of the Church , Andrewes preached before the King each year on the anniversary of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot and on that of James 's escape whilst King of Scotland from an attempt to murder him by the Earl of Gowrie and his brother . |
| 30 | One group dismissed the Prime Minister 's offer as an attempt to co-opt him into the ruling Chart Thai party and thus disarm his independent political ambitions . |