Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the Conservative promise to abolish education bring them a landslide victory ? |
| 2 | If they book me a flight out of Gatwick , like the charters do , I just say I 'm not going on that one , get me Luton , change the ticket , get me Manchester , I do n't care , I 'm not going from Gatwick . |
| 3 | This program is a must for anyone using a PC at home and will impress dinner guests who always say ‘ You simply must let me have a copy of the recipe , the meal was delicious ’ , you can now print it out in seconds and sell them a copy . |
| 4 | I ca n't remember which of David 's songs led into that — I shudder to think — but there was another lovely one about a little coat — sell me a coat because I feel cold . |
| 5 | However , as shown in the following extracts , many cultures regard land as incapable of ownership by human beings , or award them a form of tenure quite at variance with the Western tradition . |
| 6 | Bring me a bottle , if you please . |
| 7 | The ‘ step demure ’ and ‘ downward lids ’ offend me , and never bring me a sense of virtue … |
| 8 | Bring me a drink . |
| 9 | You bring me a file . |
| 10 | ‘ Tell him to come back , we ca n't take risks — and bring me a glass of water , will you ? ’ |
| 11 | Bring me a tissue for you ? |
| 12 | I 'd take a stool , stack up coins as high as they 'd go , and have the barman bring me a two-bit shot every couple of minutes , removing the price himself , until the tower was gone . |
| 13 | ‘ Bring me a cup of tea , dear , ’ said Coffin to the waitress as she passed , absently reproducing her own tones . |
| 14 | Bring me a cup of coffee . |
| 15 | and erm I 'll be , we knit jumpers as well there , cardigans and as pick them a cardigan I bought from Blacks in Newcastle |
| 16 | Could you , erm , spear me a roasty |
| 17 | On the one hand , does the integration of groups into the bureaucratic structure make them a threat to traditional democratic norms of accountable government ? |
| 18 | Since burning their fingers on 100% lending that flared into bad debt , lenders have been insisting that customers borrowing more than 70% to 75% of property value make them a present of an insurance policy against default . |
| 19 | My mum and dad deny that they make them a brew , but when I get home there 's usually 20 dirty cups outside the door . ’ |
| 20 | Double positives are taken away making it negative and your H positives go in here , making it positive , so you get a you get a little a little potential difference , a little difference in voltage , which gives a Any any two metals if you put them together and make them a bit damp , or even if you do n't make them damp , you usually get a little a tiny voltage . |
| 21 | Right , depends what the and quite honestly , if you bring these down and make them a bit more romantic |
| 22 | Lawrence has insisted he wants to stay and honour his contract at Middlesbrough and make them a force in the Premier division . |
| 23 | You need to dream , then formulate your goals from those dreams and make them a reality . |
| 24 | ‘ By laughing at them you make them a victim — and all humour has a victim , even if it 's yourself , ’ says Carl . |
| 25 | ‘ When we go to the unit , we greet the residents — we have twelve of them — we say hello and then we make them a cup of tea . ’ |
| 26 | And I make sure that I 'm here and I open up for them , and I make them a cup of tea . |
| 27 | And they 'd come up and wait them but I 'd make them a cup of coffee or a cup of cocoa or something like that , there were n't coffee then cos we could n't afford coffee we used to have cocoa or make them a mug of tea . |
| 28 | Should cut the gentlemen on Foggy Bottom , or wherever , down to size and make them a mite more civil and cooperative in future . |
| 29 | Erm and if anybody runs into anybody else and can ask them or anything if there is n't actually an army of er sort of letters coming through your door saying yes yes make me a candidate . |
| 30 | Anyway , I said to Rick , ‘ Look , if you 're going to try to sell me something that I 'm going to play , make me a guitar that 's a cross between an Alembic and a Les Paul , but make it simple . ’ |