Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , he was still developing the characteristics that would eventually make him a character actor . |
| 2 | Killing him would only make him a martyr . |
| 3 | Mr Tsongas , a pro-business liberal , argued that to restart the campaign he abandoned three weeks ago for lack of funds would only make him a spoiler . |
| 4 | ‘ Better make me a list for Christmas , ’ Wayne said , and he gave her his hand to help her out onto the lakeside track . |
| 5 | Better make it a pound each . ’ |
| 6 | do you want some posters for Gordon and Adam , well I can only lend you a couple of ones , but those might do if she turns them over |
| 7 | The new crossing will obviously make it a lot safer . ’ |
| 8 | but I mean you do n't think erm cos he said to me he said oh I suppose I 'd better buy you a Christmas present and I said yeah buy me something that I 'd use . |
| 9 | I 'd better give her a ring , I suppose . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd better give her a hand or she 'll sulk . |
| 11 | And as I say , the middle one had a sling on his arm , so , as I was opening the outside door one of them says , well if you 've not got cigarettes , you better give me a tenner or I 'll thump you ! |
| 12 | Better give me a game gon na thrash you whenever I could of thrashed at whatever ! |
| 13 | " You better give me a scotch . " |
| 14 | Right , you 'd better give them a shout , there are n't that many actually |
| 15 | Perhaps you 'd better give him a pop over hurdles tomorrow . ’ |
| 16 | Now anybody who er who would like to see more sex on television , better give us a ring now I suppose O nine O four six four six four one if you er if you think the er Buddha of Suburbia which is erm has really upset Mary quite considerably . |
| 17 | If you need owt you better give us a ring . |
| 18 | I think I 'd better give you a course of broad-spectrum antibiotics . |
| 19 | He 'd show her , and even if she did n't appreciate the work it would perhaps give him a moment to think , to recover his poise . |
| 20 | ‘ To keep the whole thing in the right perspective , you have to remember that it does n't necessarily matter what a manager decides , the service that the resident receives is actually given by the care assistant . |
| 21 | The last show of the tour was in Atlanta and I decided to give a little party for the singers and musicians and the crew and I tried to rent a banquet room at the hotel , but because it was Thanksgiving Weekend , they said they could only give me a suite . |
| 22 | I can only give you a tool for good . |
| 23 | If you omit to declare the steps and have the wrong answer , he can only give you a zero mark . |
| 24 | Yet AMP is prepared to embark on a £1bn adventure , representing over 6 per cent of its assets , which at best will only give it a share of the British life insurance market of between 2 and 2.5 per cent . |
| 25 | erm then erm what I 'll do I 'll pick it up next week and that will obviously show you a bit more about Abbey Life and any , any of your friends or anybody you think might , might like to look at the video erm you know just to give them an insight , people you mentioned erm to me that you perhaps know you 'd like to pass the video on to them to have a look erm and if er er you 've got my number and if you want to ring me then I can get some more videos if you think other people might be interested I 'm quite happy to pass them on , on to you as well , okay ? |
| 26 | It will only cost you a penny . ’ |
| 27 | None of them would necessarily call himself a Daleyite , and Mr Daley would deny that he was creating a Democratic machine anything like the one that his father ran with such effect . |
| 28 | That way there would be plenty of decent players for each team and it would only take me a couple of hours per week to sort out . |
| 29 | it 'll only take you a second to do that , bring you , mind yourself , let me just , whoosh that 's hot |
| 30 | I will perhaps call it a constipation in glass , wrote Harsnet , not a delay in glass , but an advance , he wrote , on my last readymade , the hard stool , my present to Goldberg on the occasion of his third wedding . |