Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [conj] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On her arrival , you invite her to sit down and offer her a cup of tea or coffee , which will have a calming effect , and then , as gently as possible , you break the news , and offer every possible assistance for any arrangements she may have to make . |
| 2 | Now I 'm going to go inside and get myself a drink , ’ he announced , ‘ and then we are going to go over to the far field where there 's a modicum of peace and we are going to look at these plans together , OK ? ’ |
| 3 | It would be preposterous — and cruel besides — not to go in and comfort her a little . |
| 4 | You should have I 'm gon na have to go in and get me a a double bass like . |
| 5 | If you have n't , then , you ought to phone your local beat officer and get him to come along and give you a survey |
| 6 | Finally he got so used to me calling that he asked me to come down and give them a hand fixing it up . |
| 7 | Do n't you love your grandmother enough to come downstairs and give her a little goodbye kiss ? ’ |
| 8 | I , I , I 'd would teach them to stand up and tell them the truth , there do n't appear to be too many of them about these days |
| 9 | ‘ She told us to come up an' do yer a nice kindness by talkin' to yer . ’ |
| 10 | English scholars , all classicists or ex-classicists , hurried to catch up and prove themselves the equals of the Germans in philological and textual skill . |
| 11 | I had the strong impression he might be tempted to come back and give us a bit more front-line colour from the other side of the grave . |
| 12 | I woke feeling unwell and I decided to go downstairs and make myself a cup of tea . |
| 13 | When , a few hours later , Harriet got up to go downstairs and make herself a cup of tea , she was surprised to find Liza 's bedroom door open . |
| 14 | Thought well I had this fire on so , I gets up to go through and make myself a l you know a drink before going to bed and I put my 'jamas on and dressing gown . |
| 15 | It 's very agreeable to be able to reach down and offer someone a helping hand — particularly someone he has looked up to for so long . |
| 16 | But , firms are beginning to open up and give us an opportunity actually to take youngsters in and see what it 's all about . |
| 17 | I 've just rung up to see , I was gon na ask Jo to nip out and get me a cake and see if the advert was in , but it do it does n't actually come out , it 's like the local Chronicle here , it comes out on a Thursday night |
| 18 | He was shedding his wet things as he spoke , and a glance at me indicated who was supposed to hurry off and get him the hot drink . |
| 19 | I just tell him to shut up and give him a sharp rap across the knuckles . |
| 20 | I suppose we ought to go out and give him a hand really but |
| 21 | As soon as the shops opened after the holidays he was going to go out and buy himself a tie ! |
| 22 | The advice was was not to hang on and see what the May elections er looked like . |
| 23 | Then I had to save up and buy myself a black dress for the afternoons when the housemaid was out , you see . |
| 24 | But there was no malice in their interest and I sometimes had the feeling that they were waiting for me to turn round and hand them a bag of toffees , with instructions to share them out fairly and not throw the papers on the floor . |
| 25 | We tried to get through and ask him the question on air . |
| 26 | Each was required in turn to break off and tell us the advertisements were coming and it did prove hard , such was the intensity of the exchange , to sustain the intellectual commitment over commercial claims for Whiskas and options . |
| 27 | S. H. We were held responsible for property and we had to go round and test every doorway and that would occupy the first time round — say an hour and a half — and then usually you had to go round and test them a second time , just to make sure . |
| 28 | Kaley I want you to go upstairs and get me a pad for Brett please . |
| 29 | The Aldershot method because er it it sort of explained to me the most effect way of getting across whatever you want to say so that made me a feel a bit happier about that . |
| 30 | What reason could we produce to allow that she may have the capacity to act autonomously while denying her the capacity-to-act-autonomously ? |