Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [pron] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Best probably knows he should have Cusworth on board and you have only to look at the magical ( and almost posthumous ) transformation that Best has wrought in Peter Winterbottom 's handling and passing to see what a course in sevens indoctrination can achieve . |
| 2 | ‘ Like people refusing to give you a lift ? ’ she queried sweetly . |
| 3 | He looked at her now , sitting there like a bird with a broken wing , and was torn between wanting to give her a hug and a kiss , as he would with Anna when she 'd fallen and hurt her knee , and a rather more powerful instinct for self-preservation that urged him to climb into the airing cupboard and pull the door shut after him . |
| 4 | 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 ! ’ |
| 5 | She was going to enjoy it a lot . |
| 6 | Mr Davis , can you , would you like to sum up , and pick up these points , and before , I 'm going to bowl you a googly here , erm you have talked about fourteen hundred , as the size for the new settlement , erm , is that the top figure , or is that a figure to which you might aim by the year two thousand and six , but may have potential for growth beyond it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was going to write you a note — ’ |
| 9 | They keep saying they 're going to find me a house and say they 're going to buy me one . |
| 10 | It 's pretty obvious that American producers , catering to a market which buys 950 million tickets a year , are going to find it a lot easier to raise money than British producers , who are , by comparison , making films for a tiny coterie . |
| 11 | I 'm going to pour you a cup of tea now . |
| 12 | ‘ Are you going to buy me a drink as well ? ’ she asked . |
| 13 | And he thought they were going to buy him a parrot . |
| 14 | But in the long run , it 's bound to strengthen Germany 's economy tremendously , in fact some people think it 's going to strengthen it a bit too much , because it 's , it 's strong enough er already . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's waiting to give her a breathalyser if she comes round , ’ I said under my breath . |
| 16 | In two days we reached Tezpur , and again found kind ladies from the tea estates waiting to give us a meal and a bath — bliss indeed ! |
| 17 | So that when we have the thing that he calls an annual review and I call a pain in the neck , I do n't actually have to put in very much work to come up with the fact that no , I 'm not going to give him a salary increase , erm , because I have his , his performance , you know , already researched throughout the year . |
| 18 | George 's mother 's going to give him a bottle of coltsfoot linctus for that cough of yours . |
| 19 | When his father had died twelve months ago and his grandmother had made it clear she was n't going to give him a home , he 'd wondered what would happen to him . |
| 20 | They 're going to give him a gold watch . |
| 21 | They 'd relented , his Mum and Dad , and they were going to give him a parrot for Easter . |
| 22 | It 's a cold morning and I was going to give him a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 23 | But Corden , mindful that in football a firm show of boardroom backing so often heralds managerial upheaval , said : ‘ I 'm not going to give him a vote of confidence ! ’ |
| 24 | Boy , am I going to give him a piece of my mind when I see him . |
| 25 | ‘ Any damages are not going to give her a holiday in the Caribbean . ’ |
| 26 | He was going to give her a job . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , are n't you going to give me a clue as to what 's going on in your mind ? ’ she went on . |
| 28 | ‘ And when , ’ demanded the Countess of Donnington of her daughter , ‘ are you going to give me a date ? |
| 29 | At Heathrow Wendy Hoyte was being met by her husband Les and they were going to give me a lift back into London . |
| 30 | Telling me he 's going to give me a lot of money ! |