Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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31 point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure .
32 Right , from Highgate has said if the good lord wanted cats to fly he would 've given them wings , it 's cruel doing things like that to animals .
33 I mean they could 've given them a wee , a wee two bedroom around our w our way rightly .
34 Erm not any more I do n't I 've given them all away hello , are there any spare handouts in the room ?
35 No but you were saying before that had it worked it would 've given them a problem .
36 It was , Be blessings on thee , I mean and may God bless you for the help you 've given me .
37 see you 've given her the
38 It would 've given us another month to play with at least .
39 Sorry that was squared yeah so the differential of that would 've given us twice er would have given us twice that .
40 no good it 's three times too much so he must have started off with X cubed over three and that would 've given us one third of three X squared
41 As a standalone machine I would 've given it a fourth star .
42 ‘ I 'd 've given it to you ; I was n't holding out .
43 Roger I 'd 've given it you a lot quicker if you 'd given me a list of jobs to work on .
44 You had a choice of an eight or a three I had two jacks and a king you chose the three , the two turned up that would 've given you eight and a but you picked the three so that 'll give you more in the box as well an three hit your three hit your hand as well so
45 It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy .
46 Young Jack thought he was hard , thought that having a few blondes and getting a few legs broken made you a man , but underneath it all he was soft , a little boy .
47 So I did n't want to burden her by being awkward about it , make her feel bad about it , equally I have n't really thanked her .
48 ‘ I did n't want to burden you with this but you 'd soon have wondered why Mackie did n't come . ’
49 But Eve Pearce is magnificently anguished and smothering as Henny ( this is the kind of mother whose ‘ I do n't want to burden you with my problems ’ sounds as convincing as ‘ I am not a crook ’ did when it come from the lips of Richard Nixon ) , and Debora Weston flutters and fences vivaciously as the girlish killer and literary know-all .
50 " I do n't want to burden you with my problems . "
51 But there — I do n't want to burden you with my troubles . ’
52 Richard Gutch , chief executive of the charity Arthritis Care , said : ‘ What I 've heard astonishes me .
53 I got to whisk it , whisk it
54 As long as they do n't want to borrow them .
55 Do you want to borrow it ? ’
56 Do you want to borrow it ?
57 Posh Porky knew exactly when and where she was born and never stopped reminding us all that she was nearly a year younger than anyone else in the class .
58 While he was away she never stopped reminding us at the top of her voice that she was n't a five by two .
59 It never failed to anger him — the clearly apparent greater affluence of hospital administrators as compared to his own lack of money .
60 if we if we get it off the ground at all it may be we 'd want to carry it over till the Autumn and start the new season with it .
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