Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as shown in the following extracts , many cultures regard land as incapable of ownership by human beings , or award them a form of tenure quite at variance with the Western tradition . |
| 2 | The ‘ step demure ’ and ‘ downward lids ’ offend me , and never bring me a sense of virtue … |
| 3 | ‘ Tell him to come back , we ca n't take risks — and bring me a glass of water , will you ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Bring me a cup of tea , dear , ’ said Coffin to the waitress as she passed , absently reproducing her own tones . |
| 5 | Bring me a cup of coffee . |
| 6 | Since burning their fingers on 100% lending that flared into bad debt , lenders have been insisting that customers borrowing more than 70% to 75% of property value make them a present of an insurance policy against default . |
| 7 | ‘ When we go to the unit , we greet the residents — we have twelve of them — we say hello and then we make them a cup of tea . ’ |
| 8 | And I make sure that I 'm here and I open up for them , and I make them a cup of tea . |
| 9 | And they 'd come up and wait them but I 'd make them a cup of coffee or a cup of cocoa or something like that , there were n't coffee then cos we could n't afford coffee we used to have cocoa or make them a mug of tea . |
| 10 | ‘ Make me a cup of coffee . |
| 11 | ‘ Bring the book into the kitchen and I 'll look at it while you make me a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 12 | Er , and that , you , you 'll at the town cooking dinner , watching television , talking to my friend , or just roughly what you 're doing at that time that conversation took place , okay , at work , form , then make me a cup of tea , she was photo-copying , |
| 13 | Make me a cup of coffee if you 're busy or something or |
| 14 | Please send me a catalogue of Blanchard Training materials . |
| 15 | PLEASE SEND ME A COPY OF YOUR 1990 CATALOGUE PRICE £1 |
| 16 | ‘ Every morning the Guildhall send me a list of those indicted to hang . |
| 17 | Notify the press of your efforts to get a conservation area designated and send them a copy of the booklet you have prepared . |
| 18 | I currently send you a copy of the list of weekly planning applications received by Edinburgh District Council . |
| 19 | We would ask that before we send you a copy of the detailed memorandum you return to [ person ] at this address , the attached confidentiality undertaking typed on your own letter heading . |
| 20 | It was suggested at the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council that I send you a copy of the objections made by the Parish Council to the siting of a communication mast on land off Higher Lane , Scorton . |
| 21 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 22 | I frightened you once before , that first night in the hut , and I want you a hell of a lot more now . ’ |
| 23 | All you need to know about Brian is that in the Sixties one of his friends send him a postcard of planet Earth with a message saying : ‘ Wish you were here . ’ |
| 24 | I shall make sure that I send him a copy of my speech tomorrow , which will give detail after detail of what is actually taking place in the valleys . |
| 25 | Send her a bunch of flowers . |
| 26 | It was more a family , really , than a deputation , excluding the Bishop , of course : Aethelric of Durham , whom the monks had wanted to disown after that business eight years ago , until he had had to go to Siward and slip him a bit of St Cuthbert 's best to get him reinstated . |
| 27 | Ranald knelt to pull the hearth stones into place and build her a fire of peat from the fallen roof . |
| 28 | When we look closely at ‘ activities ’ we realise what a range of choices we have at our disposal . |
| 29 | Five years of therapy later , I realise what a lot of ‘ work ’ we did have to do to understand the underlying reasons for my eating disorder , and for many other things in my life , and also to have a wider understanding of eating disorders in general and what they are about . |
| 30 | Simply find and send us a list of the words using the coupon provided . |