Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he wants to see you doing it the other way as well |
| 2 | ‘ Dr Greene has deputised you to show me the sonogram pictures and explain them , I hope . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Someone in the audience has asked me to greet them the way the chimpanzees greet each other in the wild at Gombe , ’ Jane Goodall began . |
| 4 | I tried to get her to give him the elbow but she would always say , ‘ but Eddie , he means well and he 's so kind ’ . |
| 5 | I tried to get her to send me a memo with a pound sign on it the day after any night she had masturbated thinking about Lee , but she never did . |
| 6 | You are good at expressing yourself , which stands you in good stead if you want to ask someone to do you a favour . |
| 7 | Silently he applauded her fortitude , wanting to hold her to give her the solace he knew she needed . |
| 8 | It was old Mr. Stavanger who paid for me to have a good secretarial course , and when I 'd qualified he gave me a job in the shipping office . |
| 9 | ‘ There must be lots of people in the village who will want to help us give him a nice birthday . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've got to do everything to give yourself a bit of an advantage in a race like this , so we 'll put the visor on . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm encouraging people to diversity , so I 've got to let them know what the pitfalls are . ’ |
| 12 | If you were in London erm you were called up give gave you gave you a white feather cos you were going in the army . . |
| 13 | They have full jurisdiction to say : ‘ We are satisfied that there is a nuisance here , but we are not going to order you to do what the local authority say you are to do because we think it can be done in another and cheaper way or in a more effective way ’ . |
| 14 | do you , do , do you have a gun ? , button one for yes and button two for no well I 'm not going to ask you to identify yourselves the three of you |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm going to make him give me a go on his kite , ’ I told Murray . |
| 16 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 17 | You should have made him buy you a bloody pint ! |
| 18 | Oh I like if I 'd have known you were going I 'd have got you to get me the nut ones . |
| 19 | You 'll just have to get them to give you a quote . |
| 20 | If it has yes we go do they give you an angle ? |
| 21 | Still , I managed to get her to tell me the name of the hospital , and then I spent my entire lunchtime talking to the doctors there who treated Ryan . |
| 22 | She probably managed to make him pay her a little more before she agreed to do what he wanted — and altogether earned for herself in one evening more than she does in several days of being a parlourmaid . |
| 23 | We do n't know what it 's all about , but we do know you have something the law would like to hear . |
| 24 | Did did you see it a couple of weeks ago where |
| 25 | erm she said send her send her a mail something like that yeah so I went to the ticket desk , it was locked up and they 'd just come walking back and I thought ah I hope she 's not been waiting around . |
| 26 | Once he had said I showed him a concern which he had never met with before , even from his parents , and that he would love to visit my country one day . |
| 27 | We 've got nothing to make him a sandwich up have we ? |
| 28 | Whitlock had wanted to remain on duty for the banquet at the United Nations that evening but Kolchinsky had told him to call it a day . |
| 29 | When Giorgio had descended on us that day in the train he had asked her to advance him the money to build the new car , and when she had turned him down he was furious . |
| 30 | Only Mrs McMahon could still be affected — and she had asked her to keep it a secret . |