Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reply I sent him a cutting from the catalogue of a well known UK mail order equipment company . |
| 2 | I vill give you a game of dominoes , and if you vin … vell , den I buy you a drink . |
| 3 | One day , though , sitting in the counsellor 's sumptuous study she offered him a cheque instead of cash — and he replied with his customary charm and vigour , that she had to pay more if she paid by cheque . |
| 4 | She says : ‘ When I went to arrange the AA insurance for the car they offered me a policy for us as well and , thank goodness , I decided to take it . ’ |
| 5 | No , , it 's just a but he was , you know , I was fairly slow , and then I went on , I followed erm , I ended up slightly , as well , erm , then I went to college up to the age of eighteen , erm , and as soon as I finished college he made me a department manager . |
| 6 | In one condition he showed them a series of objects which had been bought from a joke shop : a piece of rubber cheese , a chicken 's egg made of stone , and so forth . |
| 7 | If he has n't got a nice home you call him a layabout . ’ |
| 8 | Well the rubber 's a , well , you call it a teatle you call it a teatle it 's a rubber . |
| 9 | It was widespread among craft unions like the wool combers who were said to have become " one society throughout the kingdom … if any of their club is out of work they give them a ticket and money to seek for work at the next town where a box club is " . |
| 10 | We pay every week to get into the game ; this money goes to the manager and team , and in return they owe us a good afternoon 's entertainment . |
| 11 | It 'll also tell you that if in return they call you a dweeb or a flake , they 're probably not being very polite either . |
| 12 | In return they give you a lot of care and sex . ’ |
| 13 | The old man asked about her job ; in exchange he told her a little about himself . |
| 14 | He sort of was a bit you got him a bit could n't say . |
| 15 | So as an aircraft came out of the engineering wing I gave it a test . |
| 16 | Back at her place she offered him a large whisky and then said that she just had to slip into the bedroom to see to a few things . |
| 17 | At a secondhand shop they bought him a pair of rather tight jeans and also acquired a metal detector , opening up a whole range of possibilities . |
| 18 | Although mainly a director of low budget productions , he told me that before the war he concerned it a poor year if he did not earn six thousand pounds , quite a sum for those days . |
| 19 | Though engrossed in picking his teeth with a match he gave me a long appraising stare before addressing me in rich cockney . |
| 20 | Because a Court Scheme involves an application to the court for approval it makes it a more time-consuming , expensive and cumbersome procedure than a takeover offer . |
| 21 | ‘ With his left hand he snatched the gun from the Pole 's hands , and with his right he gave him a violent blow to the ear . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ One day I asked her a question as I was getting on , and she just smacked my face … |
| 23 | On another occasion they brought us a bowl of cherries . |
| 24 | Behind his back they called him a " Jaune " — a " yellow " with its unmistakable implication of cowardice ; if feeling more tactful they called him an " Annamite " — but was n't that only in truth a man of China 's ancient colony , the " Pacified South " ? |
| 25 | On the second day they gave her a rubber ball attached on a long elastic thread to a wooden bat . |
| 26 | Yeah , and if goes in for a pint he gives you a packet now . |
| 27 | As I clambered out of the trench and sat on the grass with my back to a tree he handed me a mess-tin full of very tasty Machonachie stew which I soon polished off . |
| 28 | Then looking at him again she said , ‘ He sometimes had a walking stick , and … and on that day he bought me a parasol . ’ |
| 29 | The following day he bought her a bunch of violets and dropped them on her lap as she sat in the prompt corner . |
| 30 | One day it took us a day and a half to get it back again . |