Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd forgotten that I pay you a salary ! |
| 2 | Hanging around with the photographer sparked Tony 's interest in the medium , ‘ It was a combination of things ; one was the bull , the adventure , the romance , and I really found that I liked it a lot . |
| 3 | Yes erm I do n't know if I mentioned you a question properly er right there were young lads in there they be young lads in that lodge do this and they jump up and they make a decision quickly . |
| 4 | We rose and he took me a short distance to Bread Street . |
| 5 | What would Fen say if she gave him a truthful answer , told him that Hugh had done her a good turn , jilted her before she could make the most dreadful mistake of her life ? |
| 6 | I already had permission to search all the surrounding fields , so I waited until the field was harvested before I gave it a thorough going over with my detector . |
| 7 | The older man 's bushy grey brows rose as he shot her a penetrating glance . |
| 8 | I mean once I know what a thing is |
| 9 | My mum and dad deny that they make them a brew , but when I get home there 's usually 20 dirty cups outside the door . ’ |
| 10 | It was touching to me to see how she would sometimes act helpless because she loved him being , as he often was , masterful with her , as well as tender ; and for his part it was easy to see that he thought her a wonderful woman and admired every inch of her . |
| 11 | I 'm unashamed to report that I enjoyed it a lot , and I 'm sure I would have loved it as a child . |
| 12 | He astounded his American masters by demanding that they give him a more worthwhile job or he would be on his way home . |
| 13 | Erm it was felt that it warranted something a lot stronger than that . |
| 14 | Once I had said that I found it a lot easier to speak to her . |
| 15 | As long as you can show that they owed you a legal duty to be careful and have been negligent , damages could come your way . |
| 16 | Erm yes three pictures that you might like to sell if you give me a price for them . |
| 17 | But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw . |
| 18 | How would you feel if you knitted yourself a nice little doll , out of the most expensive yarn you could buy , and spent the best years of your life working on it to make it as perfect as you could — then it suddenly got up and walked away and turned into something different ? ’ |
| 19 | Here ref , what would you do if I called you a plonker ? |
| 20 | It does n't matter if we do it a little bit before you do it at school because when you do it you 'll understand then and you can get a lot from it you can ask |
| 21 | ‘ Wait till I get you a cup of cocoa , Mark , ’ said Mrs Mallory . |
| 22 | You learn to listen because you know what a rectangle is and you can measure your idea of it against theirs . |
| 23 | The creature is seen chasing two teenage boys — but all is saved when one tosses him a can of Pepsi . |
| 24 | Do you think if I , do you think if I gave him a fright , s see the , time he says he 's going off to his granny 's and I say away you go , and my mam says she 's not taking him . |
| 25 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 26 | Two , our institute has its own hall and as this is now about seventy years old and was not particularly well built in the first place , you will understand that it costs us a good deal in money and effort to literally keep the roof over our heads . |
| 27 | Would you mind if we paid her a visit instead ? ’ she appealed . |
| 28 | Would you mind if I bought you a coffee or something ? ’ |
| 29 | Then she said I could look and she gave me a piece of cloth with a few coins in it which my mother had saved for me — and the ring . |
| 30 | So he leaves them in a room where the locks open if you give them a threatening look . ’ |