Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why do yer want me ter have a key ? ’ |
| 2 | Organizations are arenas within which some things will tend to hang together and be adopted by power-players as a bundle , while other forms of combination may be far less likely to occur as a coherent package , perhaps because they are less coherent or because the alliance which could make them so lacks a position in the field of power to be able to constitute the necessity of its choices . |
| 3 | He had taught them how to pick a lock , steal a car , to shoplift … |
| 4 | You wired them together to make a kind of pyramid . |
| 5 | I had no awareness of the supposed stereotypical mother of that era — lipsticked and aproned , waiting at the door — and do n't think I even encountered a picture of her , in books , comics or film , until the early 1960s . |
| 6 | No I was just about to say confidence really I find it quite difficult to get assertive erm but when the situation does arise I suddenly get a gut feeling about it later |
| 7 | I do n't know I just watched a clip |
| 8 | Then if I get caught I just get a caution and that 's it . |
| 9 | D' ya really have a bath you do do n't you ? |
| 10 | Bernice suddenly found she badly needed a drink , but her hip flask was empty . |
| 11 | There are others who never will , and you 'll have a constant battle to establish you right to have a share in making decisions , and knowing where the money goes . |
| 12 | Stretch goodbye to the pain and forget you even have a shoulder . |
| 13 | However well she did , however hard she tried she never earned a word of praise from her husband , the royal family or their courtiers . |
| 14 | But the thing is that your er particular area you know , if you wanted to do one and not save it , you do n't have to save , you know , you know you can print it off and it 's done , but you can send mail to Tracey or headquarters C A , you would n't have to print it out once it 's what you want you just press a button and it goes . |
| 15 | That 's when I want you here to keep a watch on him . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ How come we suddenly need a cox ? ’ |
| 17 | I could n't see the clock — I did n't know they even had a clock . |
| 18 | Describing London as ‘ a city of illusions , subject every now and then to a series of harsh awakenings ’ , The Echo ( 11 August 1898 ) believed that while some of the stones were undoubtedly exaggerated they nevertheless served a purpose : ‘ We steadily shut our eyes to the submerged lawlessness of less fortunate districts until a series of Whitechapel outrages , or Hooligan exploits , make us not only aware of what is going on , but actually afraid of our lives . ’ |
| 19 | The man , whose name has not been released , was a well known visitor to the libraries in question and was not suspected until the police were able to catch him red-handed lifting a title-page from a book . |
| 20 | The man ran off towards Banbury railway station , where police say they later found a weapon hidden in the men 's toilet . |
| 21 | People living near the former English Martyrs School in Poplars Avenue , Orford , Warrington , say they desperately need a centre for the young , elderly and disabled of the area . |
| 22 | If , as Mr Bush indicated in his letter , he knew in October of Mr Frohnmayer 's ‘ wish to step aside ’ , why has he not nominated a successor ? |
| 23 | Has he ever cooked a pie that comes out the oven cold ? |
| 24 | And you 'd say , right , and you 'd go the , after the baby was born you , you 'd go back again to what we call the nur nursing , nursing up and you 'd want the bowl again for the baby and you 'd say wh where 's the bowl and they 'd say , oh well I think it 's downstairs , we used it yesterday to make a pudding in . |
| 25 | There were some valid defences , particularly the poor state of most of the pitches and the injuries to Gatting ( having returned from getting his nose repaired he promptly had a thumb broken and played in only the final Test ) , but some of the criticisms were very valid , too . |
| 26 | Saying this to me was like holding a red rag to a bull : the more anyone told me not to do a thing , the more I tried to do it . |
| 27 | She told me not to make a fuss over such a small thing . |
| 28 | Well , there was a silly ole cow workin' in the office an' when I went in there she give me a dirty look an' told me ter take a seat . |
| 29 | Now you told me how to start a sentence |
| 30 | Their teeth and jaws can inflict such damage that an expert fisherman once told me never to put a finger in even a dead pikes ' mouth . |