Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [indef pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The camcorder has given everyone the chance to star in their own home movies . |
| 2 | He is the man who wants to take part , who wants to do everything the woman does where possible . |
| 3 | When he has to deliver anything the man opens the door maybe half an inch . |
| 4 | Was it the sort of chemist that erm was it the sort of chemist that you 'd go in if you 'd got something the matter with you and rather than go to the doctor , they would sort of dole out something for you ? |
| 5 | There had been no time for a cup of coffee and she 'd eaten nothing the night before , going straight to her cabin . |
| 6 | She just did n't want to give anyone the chance to put her down . |
| 7 | The call would have given someone the chance to replace the spare set in the security cupboard here . |
| 8 | John Dobbin , defending , said the interviewer ‘ should have expected someone the age of her own father ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Your neighbours may have seen something the day your daughter was seized . |
| 10 | The passcode system 's a welcome addition and the joystick on the control panel which mimics your movement 's also a nice touch , but once you 've played it for five minutes you 'll have seen everything the game 's got to offer ! |
| 11 | He did give everybody the run-around , but was wonderfully attractive and , indeed , still is . |
| 12 | If doctors fail to do something the Bill lays down , the could be fined or go to prison for six months . |
| 13 | Now , as they say , we come to the pay-off , which manages to undermine everything the copywriter has worked so hard to establish . |
| 14 | However much he bucked against it , in the end , if he wanted to survive in this world , let alone succeed , he had to do everything the schoolteacher instructed him to do . |
| 15 | Joe 's behaviour can also be s\described as mildly odd : his fear of returning to prison shows in his encouragement of the local children to play policeman games , telling them he will put bad boys into his private jail , and a sense of contrition over the faulty aircraft parts means he can not bear having anything the house that ought to be thrown away . |
| 16 | Others had been saying that nobody wore the Party badge any longer in Munich and that ‘ for a long while not a single person had believed anything the Führer had said ’ . |