Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely the Minister feels some embarrassment about the fact that a former Minister at his Department bought a Guyanese asset for £9.7 million and sold it a few months later for £62 million worth of shares ? |
| 2 | I 've spoken to right er and owes me a few favours and I 've said er would you consider her completing her training until the end of May middle of May which she does at the and then if she 's any good , take her on , providing she gets a driving licence . |
| 3 | It gusted through the council estate they were now in , picking up sweet papers and whisking them a few yards down the street . |
| 4 | While Sergeant Bird was in the lecture hall , Montgomery walked over to one of the other statuettes and lifted it a few inches . |
| 5 | Inspector Montgomery asks if you would be kind enough to step into the library when you 've finished your coffee , and give him a few minutes of your time . ’ |
| 6 | If you live in the Wallingford area and have a railway interest perhaps you might like to join this enthusiastic group and give them a few hours of your time . |
| 7 | That would take the smile off their faces all right and give them a few seconds relief . |
| 8 | And we 're very grateful , you 've brought rural interest , you 've brought much wider interest , and you 've brought a great deal of warmth and compassion and interest and time , what more could we say , but to show a token of our appreciation and give you a few flowers to go with that . |
| 9 | All you do is apply it to a cleansed bare face and give it a few hours to work . |
| 10 | They take hold of the club and give it a few waggles . |
| 11 | He picked her up and threw her a few metres down the corridor . |
| 12 | Behaving like an infatuated teenager , just because he 's taken me out , and kissed me a few times ? |
| 13 | No one not in the profession would know for sure whether the assassin had accepted or refused the job ; and no one except the contact and , in this case , the client , would know for sure exactly who was responsible for the messy death of Seren Haminh , probably about fifty hours from now , when the hunger would be rising again and giving her a few hours to sleep the first ecstasy off . |
| 14 | Have n't these candidates got the guts to face up to the voters who elect them to Parliament and spare us a few minutes of their time . |
| 15 | " Not yet ; let's get a sup of tea into the lad and ask him a few questions . |
| 16 | Crossing to the bed , she put a hand behind Lucien 's head , raised it , and offered him a few sips of water from a rough ceramic bowl . |
| 17 | Five minutes later , an Arab in a small blue van stopped and gave me a few kilos of tangerines . |
| 18 | And it but the erm the goats apparently were no problem today , they just stayed on and gave them a few bits and pieces you know so that was fair enough . |
| 19 | I hired a karaoke machine , went down the pub and gave 'em a few numbers ; ‘ Girl From Ipanema ’ , ‘ I Write The Songs ’ . |
| 20 | You never know who might mistake Armstrong for a real taxi and offer me a few quid as a friendly gesture for giving them a lift . |
| 21 | One thing er pu puzzles me a little and gives me a little difficulty , that is erm the addendum refers to an invitation to all baptised members . |
| 22 | People walked round it , a pram wheel caught it and dragged it a little way . |
| 23 | It took me right to the McDarroch days as he fished out one forceps after another , opened and shut them a few times then tried them on me . |
| 24 | So I 'd like to ask you er , I 'll move on and ask you a few questions about places you 've lived in the past . |
| 25 | BY THE time they got to Woodstock they might have been half a million strong , but give them a few days in the mud and they 'd soon wandered off into an acid daze looking for luxuries like a toilet , somewhere to sleep and a decent tofu burger . |
| 26 | I knows I ai n't got the job by now so I ups an' tells 'im a few fings . ‘ |