Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he was n't when he came to see me a couple of years back . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 've built up my career in an area where women are not generally accepted , and just being seen as your girlfriend is going to lose me a lot of respect ! ’ |
| 4 | I had to promise them a press conference , and I thought you 'd rather do it now , old son . |
| 5 | Four of the biggest British companies in the waste-to-energy business ( generating power from waste ) have formed a lobby group to persuade the government to grant them a subsidy . |
| 6 | Probably if ‘ Damnation Derek ’ had bothered to talk to people and get to know them a bit before preaching at them , he would have discovered that they would want to ask him some questions about what he believed . |
| 7 | But you get to know lots of others to talk to and that and on trips to away matches then you get to know them a lot better . |
| 8 | Yes with with the membership being on the doorstep , we do get to know them a lot better . |
| 9 | Manson saw that somehow and decided to write them a letter because he did n't like being called a creep . |
| 10 | I w I was just wondering if you wanted to write them a letter first |
| 11 | They showed me a bedspace and Alex went off to find me a tracksuit . |
| 12 | They keep saying they 're going to find me a house and say they 're going to buy me one . |
| 13 | ‘ Look , it 's terribly kind of you to find me a place to stay , but you must let me give you the money . |
| 14 | I was treated like a servant so I asked Freddie to find me a place of my own . |
| 15 | Hungary has appealed to foreign zoos to find them a home . |
| 16 | ‘ My time was being taken up by people asking me either to find them a folly or a buyer for some extraordinary building , ’ says Gwyn . |
| 17 | There are many who arrive actually on their 60th birthday , asking us to find them a job because they have no intention of retiring . |
| 18 | He details his daily struggle : trying to treat patients as he knows he can , yet unable to find them a hospital bed or specialist referral . |
| 19 | But when I was seeing him he offered to write me a check for five million pound , I said , I could n't take a check for five million pound because I was a to me . |
| 20 | I 'll have a look , but I 've had him doing actual words , like first words er , you know erm , Ben and large and in and out and just the , the easy words and Luke and his own name , so he is already got the idea that when you write a letter you ca n't just write any letter , you 've got to make letters say something either as erm , as an alphabet or in the form of words , so of course she says to , would you all like to write me a sentence , well he 's already passed that stage , he thinks himself well I ca n't write a sentence , what he knows as a sentence consists of words that make sense , so they 're all sitting there going a N , N , N , Q , R , S , N , T , T , and they 're saying a sentence like I went to the shops with my nanny , well Alex has already passed that stage , he knows that that is n't sensible , so he must of turned to her and he said , I ca n't write like that , my mummy will shout at me |
| 21 | Ask them to write me a reference so I got form to fill in to send off for something but I 've got ta write something . |
| 22 | Mum said that as a Christian She was not going to write me a note when there was n't anything wrong with me and that I was to remember that we Christians are the light of the world . |
| 23 | So Roger Corman said to Jack Nicholson , ‘ I want you to write me a screenplay called The Trip , about this psychedelic craze and LSD , put someone on an acid trip . |
| 24 | In the absence of a member of the Scottish National party in the House , may I ask the Minister to write me a letter setting out , in terms of computer programming and related difficulties , the problems of collecting national insurance in the event of an independent Scottish Parliament ? |
| 25 | So it is back to Portugal these Portugals can go , and tell Dom João to find himself a wife elsewhere . " |
| 26 | A newcomer to the political scene , whether lord or man , could not hope to operate outside this existing network , but had instead to find himself a place within it . |
| 27 | A newcomer to the political scene , whether lord or man , could not hope to operate outside this existing network , but had instead to find himself a place within it . |
| 28 | He told Calero he ought to find himself a code-name — a suggestion Calero virtually ignored — because ‘ the Soviets listen to everything on the east coast ’ . |
| 29 | There is no doubt Norman 's aggressive form of golf is one of the reasons why he appeals to galleries so much , but he might have to contain himself a bit more if he hopes to win on a more regular basis in the future . |
| 30 | " Pure reason ! " barked the Magistrate , unable to contain himself a moment longer . |