Example sentences of "[vb base] a [noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd pay the going rate , and provide a car to enable you to get around to the various stores and liaise with curtain-makers and such . ’ |
| 2 | All provide a leaflet telling you about the range of services on offer . |
| 3 | All provide a leaflet telling you about the range of services on offer . |
| 4 | The hotel to stay in is the Victoria , a handsome pile run by the genial Platzer family ; they send a minibus to fetch you from the little airport at Berne — one hour 's drive away — and Herr Platzer then shows you where to hire ski equipment ( roughly £24 a week ) and organise lessons . |
| 5 | They now send a doctor to poison us . ’ |
| 6 | To receive a free box , send a postcard telling us your name and address to Parents /Munch Bunch Sandwich Bags Offer , 4 St John 's Place , London EC88 1HA to arrive before 7 March . |
| 7 | and send a minion to prise them apart . |
| 8 | ‘ When you expect a deal to happen they may tell you there has been a last minute problem and the people either providing the funds or the guarantee either require a non-performance bond to be put up or require some kind of payment up front to prove you really mean business . |
| 9 | Suppose that I expect a colleague to give me a lift home this evening , but that her car has a flat battery ; this wo n't stop us , however , because a friend 's car is parked conveniently near with some jump leads which we can use to get her car to start . |
| 10 | You want a drink do you ? |
| 11 | Communities Theatre , erm , of er th they want a grant to support their current production . |
| 12 | we usually if I want a cheque signed you see or |
| 13 | People should not be afraid to come in and say , ‘ I want a system to make my life easier ’ , or , ‘ I want a spreadsheet that will do this ’ . ’ |
| 14 | So , if you want a calendar get your forms in soon , please ! |
| 15 | I 'm alright , I d I want a butty thank you . |
| 16 | ‘ The truth about chaps who want to be father figures , ’ remarked Lili , ‘ is that they actually want a mummy figure themselves . |
| 17 | Biomorphs readily replicate in the environment provided by a suitably written computer program , but they ca n't write their own program or build a computer to run it . |
| 18 | To build it on the site between East Hanney and Steventon , Thames Water would have to buy up 4 farms and 16 houses , divert the road between the two villages , landscape the area around the water and build a tunnel connecting it to the Thames . |
| 19 | Detectives say a man followed her into the toilets and raped her . |
| 20 | Instead of reading it down , I mean say a Frenchman reading it down , say through erm |
| 21 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 22 | Ten seasons after the introduction of the Renault RSO1 all manufacturers ran turbo-charged cars , and because of the increased power generated , the sport 's governing body say a need to curtail its use . |
| 23 | Bargain Basement , items for sale , five pounds or under , if you want an item call us on please . |
| 24 | Prevent a child losing his smile . |
| 25 | Hubbard 's remark that ‘ the constructional features of ( Thomas ) Hitchcock 's harpsichord reveal a sensitivity to influence which may bespeak a certain uncertainty on the part of its maker ’ is surely unjustified . |
| 26 | He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys . |
| 27 | Another possibility for the seminar is that if you want to bring some notes along to a sort of , if you show me a if you dream up hypothetical questions and then put a plan to answer them so that I can skim down it in about a minute or two . |
| 28 | They seek a chance to rebuild their lives in safety , hoping that one day they may be able to return home . |
| 29 | Er as far as out-sourcing is concerned , when we learned that there could be two thousand jobs lost or out-sourced from British Aerospace , it was my opinion in line with those of our representatives that we ought to convene a meeting immediately of all shop stewards and representatives who would be covered er through those discussions and arrange and organize a strategy to oppose it . |
| 30 | If I think I am going mad , and let a psychiatrist make my decisions for me , the goals I borrow become means to keep out of trouble and recover my health . |