Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm got fined a hundred and ninety six pounds and has got to pay me fifty pound compensation . |
| 2 | Would it not have been kinder had she pretended to be glad — since it was Christmas time , after all — when Odette had come rushing to show her that letter from her father ? |
| 3 | This was an amazing competition and everybody enjoyed it so much Mike has promised to give them Reliant Robins for their next company cars . |
| 4 | But , under threat , my Creator has agreed to make me this Eve with whom you interfere , uncovering her nakedness . |
| 5 | The seamstresses will call this afternoon to measure you for your dress , and the Archbishop has agreed to marry you next Tuesday . |
| 6 | ‘ E said I 'd got to give it another go . |
| 7 | ‘ I recall going to see him one morning in the mid-70s after a newspaper suggested Liverpool were ready to pay Boro 200,000 for me . |
| 8 | But because the way in which the 1988 Act was drafted appears to give them overriding powers , other teachers and the ancillary staff of any school are bound to ask for consultation about any staffing changes . |
| 9 | ‘ If INCUBUS is going to become the biggest organization in Europe , you 're going to have to hit it twenty-five hours a day . |
| 10 | If we 'd a carried it on for say this time of the year now you with this erm Whitsun Holiday now , we 'd have had to do it seven days a week , cos you 'd have to be there Saturday and Sunday to stop anything going in there . |
| 11 | He might have gone to see her that Saturday night . |
| 12 | I would have liked to wear it thirty years later when I travelled in the deserts of southern Arabia , but by then it had been lost . |
| 13 | The Collector would have liked to watch them all day . |
| 14 | Erm , I do need to see you some time erm let me just just see erm , but I 've got your erm your last term 's report here that we need to meet to discuss . |
| 15 | ‘ I did promise to give you that chance , ’ he admitted . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm sorry I was out when you phoned — Edward did remember to tell me this time . ’ |
| 17 | So I mean , John was right , she did come to see me that time . |
| 18 | " The next one can be yours , if this one is n't right , but we did agree to do it this way ; it was just luck it 's my answer first . |
| 19 | She had a pretty shrewd idea that Desmond had only the haziest notion of how much could be expected from the various books , and she had intended to keep it that way . |
| 20 | She had expected to meet him one day , but never like this . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyway , I 've come to see me old mate Bella here . |
| 22 | The lines of his short-cropped ruthless hair were disturbed , as though he had forgotten to comb it that morning or else , having combed , had continually run his fingers through it since then . |
| 23 | Egan had promised to do him this service . |
| 24 | Near Fontanellato they had a cousin who owned a caseificio and had promised to give them some butter and cheese . |
| 25 | Leo had promised to ring me that evening in case there had been any news from the hospital ; and I told him my own news . |
| 26 | You know because if you are going to ask an employer to enter into a contract between the between an individual employee , then really you 've got to give him some advantages to do that and I think that er I do n't know what the figures are or the number of final salary pension schemes that have been launched in the last couple of years , but I should think it be , be quite few and I think that there is a difficulty that if we go too far in taking power away from the er from the employer , erm then I , I can see the demise of final salary pension schemes , so I think one 's got to keep a balance there of erm you know that i that you must n't turn the employee off completely from this type of scheme . |
| 27 | You 've got to give him some sort of motivation . |
| 28 | There 's never any time , Lucy , you 've got to give it real time . |
| 29 | So you 've got to give it some heat to help the oxygen to work . |
| 30 | Er in order to do that I 've got to give you various reassurances . |