Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] i the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end I got them to give me the first aid outfit and fixed myself up . |
| 2 | I got them to give me the number for the cleaners ' mess-room and asked there . |
| 3 | What kind of people d' you think I the first year psychology students they 've been given some sexual orientation ? |
| 4 | Now I want you to tell me the important part — why the hell are you so desperate that you 'll go to this extent in order to get your hands on the bequest ? |
| 5 | ‘ And I 've no intention of allowing you to give me the slip tonight . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I 'd like you to give me the answer to a question . ’ |
| 7 | " I 'd like you to give me the wedding-dress you got from the children . " |
| 8 | Oh I like if I 'd have known you were going I 'd have got you to get me the nut ones . |
| 9 | Yeah erm you give you give you give me the money now and I 'll give you the elephant later it 's just round the corner . |
| 10 | So although I did n't like him touching me the way he had , I decided not to tell anybody . |
| 11 | I read it in one twenty-minute sitting , howled like a baby for ten more minutes , then phoned the producer and practically begged her to give me the job . |
| 12 | When I arrived they showed me the letter they had received from the Chief Education Officer that morning which explained the proposed Statementing procedure : |
| 13 | ‘ And Harold , ’ said Charles in a firmer tone , ‘ I very much appreciate your telling me the news so kindly . |
| 14 | I 'll have to er give her a ring to and tell them to send me the advert . |
| 15 | Erm but yeah but that 's one of er oh pass me pass me the thing I do n't actually when I think about it it 's getting nearer the time . |
| 16 | ‘ She was picking them up at random and saying things like , ‘ This boy 's in a wheelchair but that does n't stop him giving me the eye , ’ or , ‘ This is the college stud but he cuts no ice with me . ’ ’ |
| 17 | But thank can also be followed by the bare infinitive , as in the following examples , which Jespersen ( 1940 : 289 ) qualifies as " rather vulgar " : ( 200 ) I 'll thank ye hand me the salt . |
| 18 | As I had requested , I had Pauline for massage ; I always find she gives me the best massage I have anywhere in the world . |
| 19 | If you refuse to co-operate I can force you to pay me the money you owe me . |
| 20 | ‘ Dr Greene has deputised you to show me the sonogram pictures and explain them , I hope . ’ |
| 21 | ( For instance , one veteran listed a pair of jogging shoes left behind on the islands among his painful memories : another recalled a letter he wrote to his girlfriend from the trenches , asking her to tell me the truth , if she did n't love me any more or was going out with another boy ’ . ) ’ |
| 22 | I guess he taught me the right way , because after a couple of years , when I heard something , I knew what it was before any intellectual wheels were turning in my head . |
| 23 | I guessed where she had been , but I made her tell me the whole story . |
| 24 | I 'll go through it again once we 've seen the film , and ask you to give me the main points that came out of the film . |
| 25 | No , it took she gave me the Times . |
| 26 | ‘ I persuaded him to sell me the rights to manufacture the Seven and I took over everything except the Lotus name . ’ |
| 27 | It 's fucking madness , I 'll ge I mean it kills me the next day , it 's madness , I do n't know why I do it . |
| 28 | I 've asked 'em to sell me the land so I can develop it but they wo n't see sense . |
| 29 | ‘ Why did you give me the map ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Why did you give me the impression that you were one of my father 's employees ? ’ she questioned without preamble . |