Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyway , I 've come to see me old mate Bella here . |
| 2 | Beaten to death : A 45-year-old married man was beaten to death in Cardiff by a gang of teenage vandals after he tried to stop them damaging traffic bollards . |
| 3 | No one had yet bothered to feed it standard crisis input notice . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm going to buy him some flower seeds , ’ said Dot . |
| 5 | Erm , I 'm suggesting they 're going to call them interim fieldwork reports . |
| 6 | Erm got fined a hundred and ninety six pounds and has got to pay me fifty pound compensation . |
| 7 | And there 's always the informality about these course , we 're all addressed on christian name terms , all speakers prefer it that way and of course we like to address you christian name terms when we know you . |
| 8 | The Midland sent Geoffrey Taylor , its future chief executive , to negotiate a deal , He returned with the news that Crocker would welcome an investment by the Midland but completely refused to grant them any management control . |
| 9 | And then later on , oh and then she was going to see room bookings and try to find me another dining hall cos I said it 's pretty late notice , and she said oh no , it 's a week and I thought well I had booked it two months ago . |
| 10 | Do n't forget to phone me that flight data . ’ |
| 11 | Jefferson did n't bother to offer him any eye contact , let alone any response to his jocularity . |
| 12 | Campaigners fighting to keep it open fear children will die if the ward — one of the world 's leading child cancer centres — is moved to another hospital without Bart 's expertise . |
| 13 | I have tried to convince you that problem solving is important and that it can be taught and learned by means of guided problem solving . |
| 14 | In battle they believe so strongly in the power of the Orc gods Gork and Mork to protect them that enemy arrows and swords blows really can be deflected by the Orcs ' aura of self-generated arcane power . |
| 15 | You were eight years old and I suppose it is to your mother 's credit that she wanted to spare you any court proceedings . |
| 16 | I can isolate my Koi and they are easy to catch if I need to give them short term baths . |
| 17 | ‘ Aprilia wanted to give me two factory bikes and though they wanted me to bring a sponsor with me , they put my mind at ease about everything . |
| 18 | For phenomenalists such as Ayer tended to take it that observation statements report the nature of the observer 's sensory states . |