Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " David Fairfax came to see you the other day , " Matthew went on . |
| 2 | When a priest came to give her the Last Rites , she gazed on the crucifix that he held before her eyes and felt her illness leave her . |
| 3 | ‘ We were in the lane after Sacco left , ’ said Nooty , ‘ and it was getting really cold and Dorcas said to take him the other side of the hedge and , well , it was me who said you can see rabbits in this field sometimes , and he said find a rabbit-hole . |
| 4 | Following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union in that year [ see p. 34460 ] , the North-Rhine Westphalia administration refused to give it the necessary licence to operate [ see also p. 34444 ] . |
| 5 | Zen decided to give him the only answer he had been able to come up with . |
| 6 | Loss of manuscripts or illustrations seem to cause him the greatest concern . |
| 7 | The Government 's invited bids to save the Vulcan , but no one 's come up with the money needed to give it the necessary overhaul . |
| 8 | Then our dance teacher began to teach us the basic steps . |
| 9 | ‘ Nobody who spends £500 on a jacket wants to discard it the following year , ’ he believes , insisting that no Armani design dates before it dies of old age . |
| 10 | Critics seem to have it the other way round , so there 's a lot of stuff talked about me using different styles , but there does n't seem to be much said about whether it works , or whether it 's done with taste , or whether the end result is worth having . |
| 11 | So it was that her charisma and undoubted beauty helped to make her the first lady air correspondent in the world . |
| 12 | The district nurse comes to give her the monthly vitamin injections for her anaemia — takes about ten seconds and she 's gone . |