Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised the truth of all I had heard and read and decided to give my heart to Jesus and ask God to forgive me my sins on Wednesday , 13th April in the car on the way home from work . |
| 2 | Until I can persuade her to unbind me — or make contact with Mephistco and convince someone back at base to forgive me my trespasses just long enough to do an override — I am confined inside the plane of reflected light . |
| 3 | When he holds out his tiny arms to greet me my whole heart keels over as if a great wave has hit it . |
| 4 | I mean I have forgiven them their fighting against my ambition for their ambitions . |
| 5 | I suppose people have got used to bringing me their queries , to some extent , " said Richard , going into their cabin to take off his black shoes and put on a pair of red leather slippers , which , like all his other clothes , never seemed to wear out . |
| 6 | Ellen had once assured me that I was only happy because I did not think too deeply , and probably she was right , but it is still that shallow contentment which makes people bring me their troubles just as the senator was now bringing me his two children . |
| 7 | The British government — and a substantial number of British citizens — effectively opted to exclude Blacks from the United Kingdom and deny them their rights to live as equals with other British subjects . |
| 8 | Er , he said , while we 're about it , you could n't lend me your bass as well , could you ? |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , do lend me your anorak , Seb dear , ’ Nutty said , and he nobly took it off and handed it over . |
| 10 | The man says to her , ‘ Would you lend me your pitcher ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Will you lend me your car , Fred ? |
| 12 | The Japanese , ever imitative , took their ideas from the Chinese and made them their own . |
| 13 | In particular the fact that so many officials had bought their offices and thus made them their personal property ( see p. 126 ) made it very hard to dismiss them , since the government could seldom afford to refund the purchase price . |
| 14 | He was the kind of man who absorbed ideas unconsciously , made them his own , and pushed them to new limits . |
| 15 | " He carried off his subjects ' wives , daughters and kinswomen by force and made them his concubines ; when he had sated his own lust on them he handed them down for his soldiers to enjoy . |
| 16 | It would have been inconsiderate of the King and his wife to spare them their self-imposed task ; to dismiss the sweating craftsmen to their homes to enjoy the feast-time in front of a longfire with their wives and children , or drinking with the Earl in his comfortable timber hall , well fired and warmly hung , on the opposite shore . |
| 17 | It was admitted that occasionally the good were afflicted too , and that in these cases God was probably testing their faith , or even possibly allowing them their purgatory on earth , but on the whole the Church found it more satisfactory to believe that madness was punitive and well-deserved . |
| 18 | ‘ They sell me my flat , then decide to demolish the place , ’ Mr McKenna said yesterday . |
| 19 | Mr Arlidge asked : ‘ Supposing a man came to the bakery and said , ‘ Mr Kuc please sell me your kidney ’ . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Arlidge asked : ‘ Supposing a man came to the bakery and said , ‘ Mr Kuc please sell me your kidney ’ . ’ |
| 21 | He has made no secret of his irritation with the City and its ways , and in the light of the group 's disastrous plunge to losses of £71m for the year to June , shareholders are being presented with a ‘ sell me your shares or shoot yourselves in the foot ’ type offer . |
| 22 | ‘ Sell me your daughter , Li Lu , ’ he cried when he reached the house , ‘ and I will release you from half your debt to me . ’ |
| 23 | Adam had only heard one other make these sounds and when he first heard Anne make them his memory escape failed and those two nights were startlingly evoked , so disturbingly in fact that he had the terrible delusion that Anne was doing it to mock him . |
| 24 | ‘ Richardson thinks he can make them his kind of people . ’ |
| 25 | She says that after hearing them sing and finding out they were srtanded , she lent them her house . |
| 26 | She lent me her copy of Anais Nin |
| 27 | My thanks also to Sandra Burslem and Sue Thorne who kindly lent me their word processor . |
| 28 | Tremayne lent me his Volvo to go to the boatyard in the morning , reminding me before I set off that it was the day of the awards dinner at which he was to be honoured . |
| 29 | ‘ One of the bosses lent me his Jaguar Sovereign XJ6 for a week when my car broke down , ’ said Pete . |
| 30 | ‘ And he lent me his boat for a family outing . |