Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , I want you all to try and build me a decent-sized castle , right ? ’ |
| 2 | It is surprising to find that some practices , perhaps believing that the world will always grant them a living , manage their affairs without the elementary assistance of time recording . |
| 3 | ‘ I wish someone would lend me a farm hand , ’ said Dancer 's Interior Designer sulkily . |
| 4 | Simultaneously mythic and painstakingly real ( ‘ the giant Exxon sign/That brings this fair city light ’ ) , his cityscape was inhabited by characters whose lives were condensed into their names , a few gestures or scraps of dialogue ( ‘ Hey , Eddie , can you lend me a few bucks … |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps you could lend me a servant to guide me back to the Grange ? ’ |
| 6 | Can you lend me a fiver while our Corrinne comes home ? |
| 7 | Can you lend me a fiver ? |
| 8 | If I ask Shirley nicely she might lend me a couple . |
| 9 | Well I knew someone in and I thought to myself I , perhaps he might lend me a hand ? |
| 10 | So well can you lend me a pound ? |
| 11 | Three , six , nine twelve , can you lend me a few fingers ? |
| 12 | Normally this might earn me an interview without coffee with my Flight Commander , but I do have an excuse for arriving at work an hour later than usual — Gazelle Flight were night-flying last night . |
| 13 | Could you spare me a moment ? ’ |
| 14 | I would be glad if Miss Marsden could spare me a few moments . ’ |
| 15 | Come on , you 've got lots , masses , you can spare me a bit . |
| 16 | brother can you spare me a dime |
| 17 | When the maid woke her she sat up in bed and said , ‘ Ask Sir Stephen if he can spare me a few minutes . ’ |
| 18 | I would be most grateful if you could spare me a few moments of your time . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm sure you can spare me a few moments of your time . ’ |
| 20 | Could you possibly spare me a few moments in private ? |
| 21 | I 'm sure you ca n't be keeping her so busy that she ca n't spare me an hour or so . ’ |
| 22 | I was wondering if you could spare me an hour . ’ |
| 23 | Does anyone know of a signwriter who could paint me a decent menu board for my catering trailer ? |
| 24 | But a more puritan era of egalitarian austerity could make them a lot shyer — and for some time to come . |
| 25 | Hell , everybody I know 's done something like that at some time or another but that does n't make them a murderer ; I think McDunn 's crazy but I ca n't tell him that because , if he 's wrong about that and I 'm wrong about it being something to do with those guys who died in the Lake District a few years ago , then there 's only one suspect left and that 's me . |
| 26 | Because intensive livestock production renders the animals more susceptible to disease most stockmen have developed a degree of veterinary skill which can make them a decisive factor in the profitability of any livestock enterprise . |
| 27 | Whereas Marxism-Leninism does not always take a wholly positive attitude towards the peasantry , identifying petit bourgeois tendencies — particularly amongst the less impoverished — which can make them a sometimes unreliable ally , Mariátegui and subsequent Latin American Marxists have pointed to a dual oppression — both economic and racial . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The chemical companies are also betting that the Greenhouse Effect will make them a killing . |
| 30 | The work they 've put in , erm , and obviously , if you give your support to erm , make them a grant , it 's basically a grant for adults . |