Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [to-vb] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I do n't persuade my father to sell you the club , you 'll manufacture enough fake information to make the police suspicious enough to close me down ? ’ |
| 2 | I almost feel it 's my duty to show you the error of your ways . |
| 3 | Our school was evacuated to Hadlow Down in Sussex , just about where the German bombers used to off-load their bombs to save themselves the trouble of having to go all the way to London . |
| 4 | Jacqui gurgled something incomprehensible , as Kattina 's tongue shot into her mouth to save her the embarrassment of replying . |
| 5 | These people now face annual medical inspection for the rest of their lives to assess what the radiation may have bequeathed to them in terms of a legacy of cancer or birth defects . |
| 6 | Upset and infuriated by such cavalier treatment , made miserable and guilty by her failure to tell him the truth , she gritted her teeth and stayed still and mute , trying not to blink as the angry tears welled up . |
| 7 | One or two of my friends made it their business to send me the cutting from the Paternoster Review . |
| 8 | Despite all her efforts to ignore it the sensation lingered on to torment her long after the contact had been broken . |
| 9 | A salient aspect of the addressee , her ability to see what the child can see , has been changed by the utterance of b and the acts accompanying the utterance . |
| 10 | I do n't think it was her mother to tell you the truth . |
| 11 | But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away . |
| 12 | Finally he 'll decide to go and tinker with his terminal to tell him the tally to date . |
| 13 | In 1889 a Select Committee heard another plea from a male trade unionist for the restriction of married women 's work on the grounds that ‘ when the married women turn into the domestic workshops they become competitors against their own husbands and it requires a man and his wife to earn what the man alone would earn if she were not in the shop ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ I sha n't wait till Adam returns , ’ Lewis said in that manner that had once led his daughter to call him the Frog Footman , |
| 15 | Mr. Pantry informed Mr. Small , for the defence , of the discrepancy between the 12 January statement and Matadial 's evidence about the telephone call after the shooting , but did not consider it his duty to show him the statement . |
| 16 | It was heavy , being covered by a thick layer of turf , and as soon as he could he checked over his shoulder to satisfy himself the area was entirely clear , before climbing stiffly all the way out and dropping the trapdoor shut again . |
| 17 | The Leasehold Reform Act 1967 for the first time introduces leasehold enfranchisement , whereby a lessee is entitled to compel his lessor to sell him the freehold upon payment of compensation on a scale fixed by the Act . |
| 18 | Blanche waited for his shaking to give him the momentum to carry on . |
| 19 | We are committed to it and it is our intention to make it the centre of a big programme of tennis in the city . ’ |
| 20 | You may have to prove your sincerity to a judge and he may be cross enough with your behaviour to refuse you the divorce . |
| 21 | If you have not trained your lecturer to give you the information to which you are entitled — that he is to deal with such and such a topic on specific days — then get started with a process of attrition , backed by your friends , until he does produce a programme for the term . |
| 22 | We have made some important alterations to your Policy to give you the benefit of cover which is right up-to-date |