Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This kind of treatment caused resentment among the petty-minded officialdom which ran the British professional game , and when Boomer was chosen for the 1927 Ryder Cup team he was picked up at Cherbourg en route to America and made to wear what every Frenchman was supposed to wear — a beret . |
| 2 | I mean they could 've given them a wee , a wee two bedroom around our w our way rightly . |
| 3 | No but you were saying before that had it worked it would 've given them a problem . |
| 4 | see you 've given her the |
| 5 | As a standalone machine I would 've given it a fourth star . |
| 6 | Young Jack thought he was hard , thought that having a few blondes and getting a few legs broken made you a man , but underneath it all he was soft , a little boy . |
| 7 | The tiny Regency houses had no doubt been listed to spare them the attentions of developers ; from the state of the paving stones and the grass-studded cracks in the roadway , it seemed that the town council too had passed them by . |
| 8 | Anyway , Liz is a bit annoyed because she does n't want to lose her no claims bonus . |
| 9 | As it is , I have reservations about the application of the user interface in the Windows version , and will have to wait to see what the next version brings before I can make up my mind any more firmly than I can at present . |
| 10 | The assistant headteacher agreed to see him every day , on an informal basis , to get a chance to talk to him about home , family and school and to offer support where possible . |
| 11 | On the other hand , you wo n't want to input them every time you run the program either . |
| 12 | I just intend to know your every move . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We intend to establish what the attitude of the financial institutions is to the industry , ’ said CIOB Commercial Director Julian Barlow . |
| 14 | But Bodie softened his voice , teased Liz mercilessly , until she agreed to meet him a few minutes later , to be taken to Linda Stone 's school . |
| 15 | You ca n't hear nothing cos the glass is too thick , so you got to guess what the people are saying . |
| 16 | Visitors to Buckingham are hard pressed to guess what the gothic style building in the town 's centre once was . |
| 17 | Though popular with patients , such a departure from traditional practice has been known to outrage consultants , demanding to know what the researcher is doing with their patients ! |
| 18 | Competition could be fierce , as a young Dundee officer discovered when even the influence of the powerful David Scott failed to secure him a place for the voyage of 1801 because |
| 19 | If the only way to give the drama momentum is to allow through ( 1 ) an emergence of crude competition between the teacher and pupils or through the even cruder ‘ I 'm the baddy not to be trusted ’ approach of ( 4 ) , then she may have to abandon altogether her intention to open up ( 2 ) , the recognition by the townsfolk that here is an official who can not know and indeed who does not want to know what the cost of this decision will be to those of us who are faced with it . |
| 20 | And I would want to know what the health effects were on them of the conditions in which they had to work . |
| 21 | She does not principally want to know what the data signify in themselves but how texts reflect processes of communication , and how and why they were used to organise purposeful action , make valid claims , or to express feelings . |
| 22 | But I do think the minister er should er b be quite clear about that point er because er it may be of crucial importance , not just to the industry , er but also to the public interest who will want to know what the position is so far as er er these matters are concerned . |
| 23 | And if he come along he would want to know who the man 's doctor was . |
| 24 | ‘ I just do n't fancy tackling her a third time . ’ |
| 25 | When he got to know her a bit better , he was further excited by her strength of will , her independence , her commitment to the Irish nationalist cause , and — best of all , he reckoned — her utterly straight-faced enthusiasm for his explorations of the Celtic spirit-world . |
| 26 | I only got to know her a little as a teenager when I visited her on my own in the single-end where she lived in a Parkhead tenement , sleeping , washing and cooking in one room . |
| 27 | Surtees was a good choice , but I never got to know him the way I did Graham Hill , Jackie Stewart and Pedro Rodriguez . |
| 28 | I only want to see her a moment . ’ |
| 29 | Well , of course , again if you want to see what a neutron or a proton is made of , I mean a neutron is a very small thing and a proton is a very small thing — it 's about ten to the minus thirteen centimetres across . |
| 30 | You , you can have your erm if you were watching a programme and er , I 've done this , erm if you 're watching a programme and you want to see what the weather forecast is er you can have that superimposed on your programme . |