Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do not propose to argue with you , I propose to give you sixteen shillings and a halfpenny . |
| 2 | The driver of a passenger lorry stopped to give me some bread and carrots . |
| 3 | In a letter to my wife I said that it looked as if my job was to try to give them new faith and hope . |
| 4 | ‘ He came to see me several times and even brought Gordon [ Jackson ] along too . |
| 5 | Chief executive Jim Greenwood said : ‘ The work can not be done in a close season , so we are looking to start it next February and have the new stand ready for August , 1994 . |
| 6 | I 'm going to give them another hour and then that 's it — they can all go home . |
| 7 | I was going to do it this morning and bring and for the box that they have the old prayer I think going up to Yugoslavia soon |
| 8 | Near Fontanellato they had a cousin who owned a caseificio and had promised to give them some butter and cheese . |
| 9 | Now you count on that but the next vote then comes in and they 're still not available beds are not available in it , and the next four and the next four so you 'll have , for years you 'll have those out of operation would you like to call it that way and out of production . |
| 10 | Oh , I 'll have to see wh she 's going to ring me this afternoon and say whether they can do it in the S C R. I 'm gon na try and persuade her that they can , because there are only forty people at this dinner and they 'll look stupid in the middle of the dining hall . |
| 11 | Anyway since editing is the main problem , what we 're going to do this afternoon is , actually , I 'm going to show you another video and again it 's a very controversial one , again it 's used in , in teaching situations , again it has a biased point of view in the sense that it 's produced by National Power , er clearly as a P R job for introduction into schools erm and I want you to do the same exercise , but this time I want us to edit them among ourselves and what I 'm going to do is to get you to wri write your reviews and then we 'll divide into small groups , while you 're watching it I 'll co I 'll count how , however many people we 've got here , we 'll copy the reviews and in the same groups I want you to edit one another 's reviews and then er discuss them within the groups once you 've , once you 've marked them so we 'll get into the small , we 'll do the review we 'll write the review and then we will er , I distribute the , you can go and have a cup of coffee while we copy them , then we 'll distribute them , you can mark them , er individually on your own and then we 'll get into a group and you can criticize one another 's reviews , we 'll take them one at a time , we 'll probably be in groups of four , okay , but I 'll see , I 'll see how many , what the most suitable number is , okay so , if you , would you be kind enough to that |
| 12 | Mr Heseltine replied : ‘ The only phone calls Mr Major will make will be to 20 of his colleagues , inviting them to join his government and prepare the Queen 's Speech , which is clearly , in outline , to continue the reforms that are necessary in this country to continue to give us firm leadership and government . ’ |
| 13 | But if you look deeper into it , you 'll find that it 's really calculated to give us inferior education and deny us full rights as human beings . |
| 14 | Well we 'll have to watch it this week and if er |
| 15 | ‘ I went to see him one evening and asked to borrow it . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Sarah did n't know he was n't home until she went to call him next morning and found he had n't slept in his bed . |
| 17 | STAFF : Our staff are friendly and efficient having been thoroughly trained to offer you personal help and advice . |
| 18 | If criticism gets you down and you tend to brood , keeping one of these crystals near you is believed to bring you renewed confidence and a fresh perspective . |
| 19 | She 's somebody who comes to the door and tries to sell you some make-up and perfume and toys and things . |
| 20 | Two producers in Bristol , Tony Hoyland and Peter Lilley , were being encouraged to give us more weight and status by doing discussion programmes with representatives of other countries , including those behind the Iron Curtain . |
| 21 | Why should I be allowed to give him dietary advice and not be able to advise a young person not to engage in indiscriminate sexual activity ? ’ |
| 22 | You had to lay them this way and that way |
| 23 | There are of course exceptions of those who are neither councillors nor magistrates er and are prepared to do these jobs , but there are n't very many in relation to er the numbers of people that would be required for this sort of task and there are many other activities for which there are required , like school governors who like helping on various health bodies and er they have n't got the time to do them all , and if they have , they probably are n't suitable , because I have to my Lords that a lord of people who volunteer for these sorts of tasks and I have experience of them are n't people that locally we would like to have sitting on these various bodies and we have to discourage them one way and another . |
| 24 | C is also a difficult language unless you are planning to use it full time and certainly not something to indulge in for fun . |
| 25 | You have to give them clean needles and good habits , not moral outrage and prohibition . ’ |
| 26 | You know , say if they wanted to get you three C's and you got three A's shut up Sam ! |