Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the council 's so embarrassed about that one that they 're just leaving them to put it right as quietly as they can . |
| 2 | Obviously , as you will see by the one we have enclosed with these notes they have cost the Society a fairly substantial amount of money and although we are still allowing you to have them free of charge we ask that you use them very sparingly Thank you . |
| 3 | You are strictly to forbid them to deprive us of anything which ought of right to belong to us . |
| 4 | I 'm only doing it to wind him up . |
| 5 | That 's all I 'm only doing it to wind them up you see there . |
| 6 | It 'll be easy getting him to show me where he 's chucked my dreams . |
| 7 | Look , I 'm simply tellin' ya to drop it out of the presentation , that 's all . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know ; we are here to guard him to prevent him escaping . |
| 9 | Do n't answer , she adjured herself ; it is n't mandatory ; he 's only doing it to annoy you — then found she was totally incapable of being as rude as she wanted to be . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sure he 's just doing it to wind me up . ’ |
| 11 | I said he wanted some of his favourite French wine — there 's an envoy from the Chancellor in with him to-night , so it rang true enough , even though he 's never sent me to bring it before . ’ |
| 12 | Could it , could people please stop conferring a minute , er , that is actually the government , saying that they no longer gon na give grants , their going to give us the right to borrow , and are actually encouraging us to do it . |
| 13 | When he came into the office , past Selinda his secretary , an elderly woman who was constantly asking him to give her ‘ something interesting to do ’ ( How could he ? |
| 14 | He might well be creating havoc with her pulse-rate , but he was only doing it to comfort her after a bad day ; it did n't mean there was anything personal in the action . |
| 15 | And while on the subject of Brownies , his daughter Jessica was always badgering him to let her join , and he would be very glad for her to become one of Heather 's and Shirley 's Pack and learn how to Lend a Hand in the same way that they had . |
| 16 | He had not gone because his mother was always asking him to help her with things that she could have done perfectly well by herself . |