Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | You feel like you 've heard them a couple of hundred times when it 's only been twice . |
| 3 | We also had to shear and dip them every year and friends would come to help . |
| 4 | There is a very smart woman working in Conservative Central Office who has taught me a trick at least as useful at that of Shirley Williams . |
| 5 | The experience has taught me a lot , not least about Margaret Thatcher 's single achievement in changing the class contours of British politics . |
| 6 | Fortunately for Conran , he had attended the sort of public school ‘ which had taught me a lot of practical skills ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Her first professional job was before I was born , and she has taught me a lot . ’ |
| 8 | Four years with a handicapped child have taught me a lot of things , but three in particular : |
| 9 | I was very naive but the last year has taught me a lot . |
| 10 | Kate has taught me a lot about motherhood — mostly because she approaches it in a completely different way to me . |
| 11 | My father who was a er a clergyman taught me the piano from an early age and er I first became interested in the organ purely for money purposes in fact , when at the age of fifteen a local methodist church in Durham where we lived at the time said er , We need an organist . |
| 12 | But you 've taught me the difference between art and life . |
| 13 | Without trying looking very heavily at these type of sales , where savings plans have been sold for future mortgages , erm , the clients are left thinking it 's building up money for their , for their deposit , for their legal fees , and it guarantees them a mortgage at sometime in the future . |
| 14 | I with the jack , so I thought well somebody will throw me the thing , you know ? |
| 15 | On the other hand , you wo n't want to input them every time you run the program either . |
| 16 | In a sense this Northern mythology asks more of men , even makes more of them , than does Christianity , for it offers them no heaven , no salvation , no reward for virtue except the sombre satisfaction of having done what is right . |
| 17 | It offers them an alternative to expensive air fares . |
| 18 | But whatever age , Stow offers them the chance to meet up with old friends and catch up on the gossip . |
| 19 | Whereas the Third Republic did set out to improve the aesthetic education of these citizens , the modern welfare State offers them the bread and circuses of culture as spectacle and entertainment . |
| 20 | Cooke says : ‘ Egg pasta is certainly preferred by many chefs not only because of its excellent colour and flavour , but because it offers them the possibility of upgrading their pasta menus , thus increasing their profits . ’ |
| 21 | Sally Cline 's Women , Celibacy and Passion ( Deutsch , March , £15.99 , 0 233 98804 1 ) will reawaken the debate about sexual abstinence last seen in Liz Hodgkinson 's Sex Is Not Compulsory : Ms Cline identifies a new breed of passionate non-performers , ‘ women who believe that celibacy offers them the independence , the creative time and energy for their own growth and work which conventional sexuality has not allowed them ’ . |
| 22 | The prison governor tells them they are about to be shot and offers them the choice of dying like men or wearing blindfolds . |
| 23 | Later that night she came into my room in her kimono , bringing me a glass of champagne and carrying a book . |
| 24 | Thank you very much for bringing me the transistor — and I 'm sorry , Dr Vaughan . |
| 25 | The DHSS made me go to see them every day — I had a broken bone in my ankle but they still made me go every day ! |
| 26 | Oh I 'd hate to see them every day would you ? |
| 27 | He said he was n't when he came to see me a couple of years back . |
| 28 | She came to see me a year later , total loss of weight , total short of breath , hardly , she 's struggling to keep body and soul together . |
| 29 | He strode to her , eyes blazing , and shouted , ‘ Why did you specifically come to see me the minute you found out I had my own investment bank ? ’ |
| 30 | I 've had them born in the car on the way the the mother have come to see me the father has brought her to see me thinking that if she could just see me she 'd be alright . |