Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perkins group managing director , Tony Gilroy says : ‘ Despite the current recession in the construction industry , we expect to sell them a lot more than that under the new agreement . |
| 2 | Now , we 've got quite a long list , colleagues , of , er , members of the European Parliament and members of Parliament who will be with us during the course of the week for for short stays er Euro European MPs first , er Linden , Cheshire West secretary of the European P L P Steven , Durham , deputy leader of the European P L P Hugh , Strathclyde West Barry , Yorkshire West and from the G M B parliamentary group , er , these MPs may only be present for short periods Nicholas , Newcastle-upon-Tyne East Doug , Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Gerald , George , Hamilton Clive Hammersmith and Giles who 's drawn the short straw , who 's going to give us an address this morning . |
| 3 | A fine , grand lady who 's going to give you a talk all about people what are worse off than you are , so you 'll learn to count your blessings . ’ |
| 4 | So Mum told me she was going to leave me a bit more than she had originally planned . |
| 5 | So if anybody does patchwork knitting or makes blankets or anything for charity and they 'd like to give me a ring any time , I could give you the pattern . |
| 6 | But I 'm going to show you a bit more detail for . |
| 7 | If you had n't stopped to give me a lift this morning , I 'd still be shuffling along the road to Tangiers . ’ |
| 8 | But I do n't have to do it every day all day . |
| 9 | And if we can hold it , the foal will still be frightened of us , and we will have to give it a lot more handling than we would have had to initially to undo its instinctive fear of us and learn accept us instead . |
| 10 | So I decided to give it a miss that day . |
| 11 | then they 'll have to pay you a bit more money , yo you know , to come back like that and say well yeah I do n't |
| 12 | they did obviously have to ask him a lot more questions |