Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but he used , instead of him buying the wood or getting me to give him the money for the wood , he cannibalized the fucking wardrobes and used the sides and the |
| 2 | Do you go and tell somebody about something , or do you write them a memo ? |
| 3 | In your reading [ anything from specialist journals to Sunday Sport ] perhaps you happen upon some item or extract which gives you a new insight or understanding of some aspect of Total Quality . |
| 4 | Oh I do n't know he under , when you that told he understood it a lot more than when she said it and she sort of went all |
| 5 | Hastily she sat down , and was relieved when the tall doctor took a seat safely distant from her own and reached to the table that separated them to pour her a long drink of the invitingly iced fruit juice . |
| 6 | The gospels do not furnish us with the materials for a modern-style biography , nor do they give us a window into Jesus ' mind by which we could peer into his inmost soul . |
| 7 | Nor did they see him the day after that . |
| 8 | How long did it take to establish that did it take you a long time to ? |
| 9 | Then he pulled her towards him and asked her to give him a kiss , but she pulled away quickly when she saw Mum 's scowl . |
| 10 | " Well , she waylaid me as I was leaving after seeing your Toby , and asked me to give you a message . |
| 11 | St Ives said it was a mercy he had n't after all approached Meredith and asked him to give her the push . |
| 12 | When it seemed to be over , I went next door and called Fielding and asked him to give me an incredible amount of money . |
| 13 | I wrote to Mr Wood last week and asked him to give you a job on the farm . |
| 14 | She would fall and make him drag her the rest of the way first . |
| 15 | One of the Germans stationed in the house got suspicious of Antoinette hanging about near the cellar door and made her give him the key and go down there with him so he could see what she was hiding . |
| 16 | We cut out a Fife man and made him tell us the plan for the men they dropped on the Forth . |
| 17 | John Urry and I then broadened it and transformed it to make it the cornerstone of our chapter on postmodernism in The End of Organized Capitalism , especially by locating it within a framework of a book which is essentially a comparative political economy of advanced capitalist societies . |
| 18 | Before I begin to read I push some boxes across to the place where Summerchild sat facing me and dust them to make him a desk and chair . |
| 19 | It sounds fairly taxing , with being on night call , but I 'm sure you 'll make a success of it , and hope it brings you a lot of satisfaction . |
| 20 | Julia sat down in the chair next to David 's and let him pour her a cup of cooling tea . |
| 21 | Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter . |
| 22 | Now he felt playful : he kept tickling the cushion next to him and saying , ‘ Come here , come here , little Eva , and let me tell you a secret . ’ |
| 23 | We will meet at Fortingall tomorrow , and let us make it the biggest meeting of all — the Glen Lyon folk will join us there , and once Breadalbane joins with Atholl , then they will know that the whole people is on thy move . |
| 24 | Take a seat , lads , and let us show you a sample of our poor … ’ |
| 25 | She must persuade him of her good intentions — for it had never crossed her mind that she would not repay him — but she must also try to convince him of the seriousness of her situation and persuade him to grant her a bit of leeway . |
| 26 | On one occasion he suffered an uncontrollable ‘ outburst ’ during his sleep and reckoned it cost him a masterpiece the next morning . |
| 27 | I 'll have to er give her a ring to and tell them to send me the advert . |
| 28 | Before I go back to playing the game I suggest you visit you 're local software store and plead them to show you a demo . |
| 29 | So those but Fantasia passes are very similar , I just turned mine turned mine round she saw it and went she showed me a blank yellow so I did n't thought it perhaps a different pass but it was n't just turned it round on her . |
| 30 | Telephone the AA and ask them to tell you the best route . |