Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if your governor 's away never trust nothing ring a vet . |
| 2 | On the other I sell them to make a living . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Trust me to get a cat like you , ’ said Mildred fondly , stroking it with one hand and unclasping its claws with the other . |
| 4 | Head of Department : ‘ We already make them purchase a pad plus two HB pencils — total £1·50 for Art for the parents . |
| 5 | All the examples are made of notes from a pentatonic scale , but harmonised using 4ths to fatten them up and make them sound a bit more ‘ chunky ’ . |
| 6 | They make me want a lot of things that I never had . |
| 7 | ‘ People in Liverpool make me laugh a lot ’ |
| 8 | ‘ At the moment , ’ she says , ‘ the people in Liverpool make me laugh a lot . ’ |
| 9 | People in Liverpool make me laugh a lot |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm to be slightly too clever , the hare to your tortoise , so that you can plod past me half-way round the course and make me look a fool . ’ |
| 11 | If ever Ari and Bernard had a tiff , Laura would take Ari on one side , explain all Bernard 's good points and the difficulties he had encountered and then ‘ make me write a letter saying how I respected him . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ All these changes , changes of circumstances and the change of the season , make me fear a change of rhythm and atmosphere . |
| 13 | Head of Department : ‘ We make an assessment on three criteria , then combine them to give a mark out of 10 . ’ |
| 14 | Oh , certainly , yes , I mean I keep a record here — I 'm turning over my figures which shows my weekly intakes of U K holidays this year against last year . |
| 15 | The the laws for I do n't know I mean I get a bit fed up . |
| 16 | no , I mean I like a man |
| 17 | but were Scottish women and I think to a Scottish woman two thousand pounds , I , I mean I know a lot of Scottish women |
| 18 | I mean I know a recipe quickly |
| 19 | I mean I er I mean I had a lot of trouble |
| 20 | It 's just that I 've I mean I want a curtain there as well because otherwise it all looks a bit heavy but I do n't think I could put a blind down there because of the way |
| 21 | you know what he said the first time we went into sociology I mean I feel a bit like you must of felt then |
| 22 | ‘ You mean I have a choice as to whether I stay on or not ? ’ |
| 23 | er I mean I have a bit of a problem with him sort of going in and identifying all these fourteen ten tenets if you like of er what er the peasants have actually done because I do n't think |
| 24 | ‘ You mean I have a brain , ’ Polly flashed him her sweetest smile . |
| 25 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 26 | I mean I have a couple of ideas . |
| 27 | I mean I have a lot of people come to the vicarage and the churchyard , particularly people who have got alcohol problems . |
| 28 | Yeah , I mean I do a stall and everything at the summer fair and stuff . |
| 29 | I mean I need a rest . |
| 30 | Well I might have I just do n't know I think I mean I used a load at , why , want white ? |