Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also had to shear and dip them every year and friends would come to help . |
| 2 | Whereas the Third Republic did set out to improve the aesthetic education of these citizens , the modern welfare State offers them the bread and circuses of culture as spectacle and entertainment . |
| 3 | It 's wrong , Mr Deputy Speaker , if they 're living in this country erm on a semi-permanent basis and happen to have been here last October they 'll have a vote so will any everybody else who 's a citizen of the European union , so will peers of the realm who happen to be living elsewhere whether they 're in this country or outside this country under these regulations and previous regulations , have a vote in the European elections and I think it 's wholly wrong that erm citizens of other European countries namely France because that 's the one and it 's remarkable is it not that France is the one that 's gon na be the cause of this whole edifice collapsing if we do n't submit to their extra demands but citizens of France who are citizens living in their colonies , as I 've said in South America , the West Indies and the Pacific , will have a vote in the European elections on June the ninth and yet we have got citizens for whom we are responsible for in this house , we can not shirk it onto anyone else , we deny them the responsibility and I think it 's about time the house addressed this matter . |
| 4 | ‘ The nature garden has given everyone a lift and will be somewhere that the children can enjoy . ’ |
| 5 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 6 | Bring me the duvet and let's have a look at it . |
| 7 | A couple of hundred years ago two Jesuit missionaries trying to find their way back to the Orinoco stumble across them , get them to build a raft and then pole the two Godmen several hundred miles south while the said Godmen preach them the Gospel and try to get them to wear Levis . |
| 8 | Well , he 's given me a ticket and he 's gon na give , loads of us going , there 's about ten of us ! |
| 9 | Liza had given me a gin and tonic and when Granny turned up it was quite clear that she disapproved . |
| 10 | Liz would have given me a thermos and a book . |
| 11 | I 'm up on a stage , with a play going on all round me , but no one 's given me a script and I do n't know what to say or do . |
| 12 | A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion 's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl ; it involved unbending the coathanger , jamming it down the U-bend , and working it vigorously backwards and forwards . |
| 13 | I have not done anything to earn it , but God has given me the Spirit and accepted me into his family ; and he means me to know that I belong . ’ |
| 14 | After Mr Brocklehurst had given me the book and left , I felt I had to speak . |
| 15 | ‘ I just make me a chair and spend lazy afternoons watching the clouds . ’ |
| 16 | I mean in in the midweek game against us he had very little play and then he produced one ball that got them an equalizer and I suppose that 's what Frank would look for now . |
| 17 | You know they 're either set up now you 've given them an education and thrown them on the world squandering it now they 'll only squander it when they get their hands on it you might as well squander it on yourselves , let the kids squander it for you . |
| 18 | We must also recognise that we have not given them the support and management guidance on practical recruitment that they , as volunteers , need . |
| 19 | Those in the agricultural contracting business who had attended said that ATB courses had given them the confidence and skill to undertake these jobs . |
| 20 | John wanted to be in bed so that the night would be over quickly and he could move off the next morning ; Mr Stephens had a neighbour who would lend them a handcart and John wanted to be able to push the furniture the eight miles uphill to Crossbridge , settle it , and return the handcart the same day . |
| 21 | He sent for Marko and told him , " You must plant me a vineyard and bring me wine from it in seven days . |
| 22 | He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel . |
| 23 | Ordering fresh coffee from the waitress who came to take my order , he passed me the Guardian and picked up the Sun . |
| 24 | Now they now said come on let us build ourselves a city and also a tower with its |
| 25 | So I said send me a cheque and I 'll go and shop . |
| 26 | ‘ Great ’ , said Wilcock , ‘ send me a copy and I 'll plug it in my Voice column . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Send me a Capex and I 'll run it up the flagpole . ’ |
| 28 | send them the bill and we 'll send them the goods . |
| 29 | ‘ He said he would buy me a hat and I told him we 'd wait until they got the new 'uns in ; but when we come to it a week or two later he would n't spend his money . |
| 30 | When I first went in for forensic medicine he used me a lot and I got a great deal of experience I would n't otherwise have had because he was never too proud to ask for a specialist opinion . |