Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [conj] [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas here , you 're still very busy , but er you have the membership just on your doorstep and you can get to meet them and know them a lot closer than you would when you 're having er a large volume of people filing through your doors in the city centre . |
| 2 | would it be possible for me to pay my half of that and the s pay the other half because I 'm not i it it 's really started to worry me and concern me a lot |
| 3 | This tears her and causes her a sharp pang of pain , making her cry out . |
| 4 | So they took off after him , caught him and gave him a hiding . |
| 5 | People walked round it , a pram wheel caught it and dragged it a little way . |
| 6 | Michael Cross , speaking on behalf of Mr Bond , who bought the picture at Sotheby 's in 1987 , confirmed to The Independent that ‘ Sotheby 's approached us and offered us a loan facility against the picture . ’ |
| 7 | I watch him and know what a good father he will be . |
| 8 | By due process of law we have sentenced him to be slit in the hamstrings to be an example to those who would follow him and make him a hero to the people . |
| 9 | He opened his and gave us a couple of bob . |
| 10 | The butis would no doubt bless them and see them a part of the divine process . |
| 11 | ‘ I mean , we took her in when she came back from London with her tail between her legs , and we fed her and gave her a roof over her head , but she was forever dolling herself up and going out . |
| 12 | When the trial began in late February 1710 , huge crowds gathered to escort the doctor back and forth from his lodgings to Westminster Hall , shouting that they wished " God would Bless him and send him a happy deliverance " . |
| 13 | People will not miss anything that gives you an Achilles ’ heel . |
| 14 | The spherical objects are very fragile and must be guided by Steg , to do this he must either nudge them or give them a quick blow ( erm … yes , fair enough — Ed ) . |
| 15 | A new deep house night opens its doors on Aug 28 at The Podium , but Work has a twist — members can enter their names on a database so that any fellow worker looking for a singer , dancer , or whoever can access them and offer them a job . |
| 16 | You ring them and tell them a tune to them . |
| 17 | One of them hailed me and gave me a fiver to take them to a private clinic in Harley Street . |
| 18 | ‘ He rang me and offered me a door for £250 . |
| 19 | I think they either wanted to question you or give you a warning . |
| 20 | ‘ The only thing that 's left now is for me to kiss you and wish you a very good night . ’ |
| 21 | Chris had written a letter to Tina Jelly in Aldershot saying that he still loved her and missed her a lot , but was sure that until he came home she would be able to go out with his mates from the Royal Signals . |
| 22 | He roared down the passage to the back-kitchen , where Mary O'Dell hugged him and promised him a slice of fruitcake still warm from the oven , if he was a good boy and ate up all his bread and butter first . |
| 23 | Rolle is said to have fled to the nearby village of Pickering , where the squire John de Dalton was impressed by the strangely-clad hermit and agreed to support him and give him an anchorage to live in . |
| 24 | ‘ Lisa was in constant agony , but I could n't even comfort her or give her a cuddle because of the plaster . ’ |
| 25 | Zak flashed a glance at the crew , saw me and gave me a thumbs-up sign . |
| 26 | Bunny saw me and gave me a brief nod , then went back to talking to a young black dude wearing a blue trenchcoat and nursing a colour-co-ordinated Filofax . |
| 27 | That hurt him and taught him an even sharper lesson . |
| 28 | Out players were apoplectic and our secretary , a local bank manager , talked of suing for libel ; but the Captain threw back his head with two guffaws and said of course we 'd play them and show them a thing or two . |
| 29 | What he did was relatively harmless , yet somewhere deep down it damaged me and gave me a streak of recklessness that is still having consequences even today . |
| 30 | She can praise him and give him a little treat . |