Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 He was on the edge of weeping , but did not want Murray to realise it .
2 The mestizo looked up to see Trent watching him .
3 She would tell her twin about Berenice 's baby , and if she knew her sister , she would make Garry see he must return to his wife .
4 She had heard Ben tell her it was about time , too , but almost too late ; that was when she had stopped pushing the hand-cart and bought Laddie and the flat-cart .
5 They were having trouble with the close-up , until DiCillo finally asked Brad to give him ‘ a deer caught in a car 's headlights ’ .
6 Peter was a pianist , had a job as a pianist , and always seemed to have money , which made Cecilia see him as a potentially good husband .
7 She hardly ever read it herself now , preferring Alexandra to read it to her , but some mornings , when she felt stronger , she would be propped up on extra pillows and given the paper and her glass .
8 How else do you think Al-Makesh knew we were from UNACO ?
9 The liverpool supporters , although a tadge irritated by all these cheering Yorkshiremen took it very well and gave as good as they got when they equalised .
10 You know there was a brother of the Order who so contrived her departure and asked Aldhelm to help him .
11 Or do you really think Georgina did it ? ’
12 He asked Ken to walk him along the Rue Dante .
13 I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive .
14 Once home , Brian got a job as a market gardener and asked Jean to marry him .
15 and got Johnny to finish it .
16 Holberg asked Marie to take him across the water and he left a note about that meeting in his eighty-seventh Epistle .
17 That evening she expected Edward to join them for dinner at the house .
18 Each evening when we tidied away our papers I expected Edward to invite me over to the Lodge for a drink or a meal , and the invitation was not extended .
19 I suppose it was this that made Richard think I could not manage Flora 's job .
20 After his show yesterday we asked Fluff to tell us about the most memorable records from his 32-year career .
21 On face , arms , body , brow , wherever dark hair needs paling Jolen makes it barely visible .
22 We 'll make Richard throw them .
23 So considered as an action , Pooh 's observation will succeed if this belief of his is true : that is , if tasting what 's in the pot will in fact make Pooh believe it 's honey if it is honey , and believe it 's not if it 's not .
24 As a producer ‘ Space Oddity ’ was very important to me as it was only my second or third record and I was looking forward to seeing David play it live .
25 I even got Ken to try it on us .
26 Mr Hutchinson , who said wallabies would be able to live in the wild in Britain on their diet of grass and fruit , appealed to anyone seeing Wally to call him on 0207521133 .
27 In 1915 Modigliani asked Lipchitz to introduce him to the small group of Jewish artists living in La Ruche , the beehive-shaped building with small studios in Le Passage Dantzig .
28 Battling clans and pursuing Redcoats cursed them for presenting huge obstacles denying fast military movement around the Highlands , whereas the Victorians regarded them as sporting playgrounds and background subject matter for romantic oil paintings of the fat , unattractive aristocracy and their useless families .
29 it was a waste of time on a Saturday really , I mean , I think the , I mean Andy said we could have
30 Raven did not want Ramsey to succeed him .
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