Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb base] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am already aware of some of your extremely worthwhile efforts and send my best regards to all those involved with the Association and wish you every success in the future . |
| 2 | So we 'd got to take the card and show her the Mother , we 'd been . |
| 3 | So he decided to add another fifteen knots to the approach speed and give it a go . |
| 4 | And we 're very grateful , you 've brought rural interest , you 've brought much wider interest , and you 've brought a great deal of warmth and compassion and interest and time , what more could we say , but to show a token of our appreciation and give you a few flowers to go with that . |
| 5 | Some folk in the village said it was a public disgrace that a maid like Martha Pascoe should be bartered for with barrels of fish , but most saw the whole affair as a great joke , because when all was said and done , the lass was unlikely to marry Sam or Harry or anyone else against her will , and if she could use their ardour to win a few more stone of pilchards and thereby swell the village purse and give everyone a bit of harmless fun , then more power to her elbow . |
| 6 | If such an agreement can not be reached within 16 months , must the trade unions collapse and accept whatever the employer insists on ? |
| 7 | Put me on the terrace and mix me a Singapore Sling ! ’ |
| 8 | You will tell me if you find it was murder and give me the name of the murderer . |
| 9 | They take hold of the club and give it a few waggles . |
| 10 | When he came out , he thought , he would sit in the driver 's seat and allow himself a daydream . |
| 11 | I want you to take this neck and make it a neck-through-body Strat-style guitar . ’ |
| 12 | The prominent white clasts are fragments of anorthosites — calcium and aluminium-rich rocks that make up the bulk of the lunar highlands crust and give it the light colour that is visible from Earth . |
| 13 | In the last months of 1989 the people of Central and Eastern Europe take it upon themselves to address the future and make it a different place to be in . |
| 14 | I was hoping that Vecchi would show up in the near future and save everybody a lot of headaches . |
| 15 | The Recommendations look to the future and describe what the author of the report thinks should be done about the problem that has been the subject of so much investigation . |
| 16 | ‘ Come on then you lot , ’ shouted Yanto , ‘ Let's have a wander and get ourselves an appetite . ’ |
| 17 | You must penetrate the disguise and discover what the question is really about . |
| 18 | There they will hire a minibus and drive themselves the 1,000 kilometres overland to Bophuthatswana . |
| 19 | They spoke good Spanish : if they promised to interpret for me , I said , I 'd rent a car and give them a ride . |
| 20 | ‘ Cut the crap and show me the pics , ’ he said . |
| 21 | I thank him with a glance and push it a little closer to her . |
| 22 | If you do not know what a tree or shrub is , exercise clemency and give it a year 's grace to demonstrate its worth before you turn it over to the axeman . |
| 23 | A 12-strong party of homeless men , who currently reside at the Fleetwood Hostel in Lancashire , were offered the chance to visit Sellafield to stimulate their interest in industry and give them a day out to remember . |
| 24 | Should you want to do some withy and teasel research for yourself , you might visit their willow and wetland centre in Stoke St Gregory where they grow 50 acres of willow and harvest it every winter , when the plants are dormant and the rods measure 8 feet . |
| 25 | He was referring to the times at Achnacarry when I would on occasion meet the trainees returning from a speed march and pipe them the last two miles back to the camp . |
| 26 | Hamish would take pity upon this sorry figure and give him the duffle-coat to keep himself warm . |
| 27 | Alan Smithson , promotions manager at The Mall , said : ‘ We hope to encourage new talent and give them a chance . |
| 28 | having seen Frank playing in our Norwegian ‘ premiership ’ — i can only say : this guy has talent and give him a couple of more years on his neck he will become a real threat to any defence . |
| 29 | Let his man make his way back there , and let me have the third horse and bring you the quickest way to Ullesthorpe . |
| 30 | I do not remember much about my father — just odd memories , like when he would lift me up on his horse and give me a ride . |