Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er that 's true , as I said I , I lied a little bit , I , I failed to tell you the cost of the fee . |
| 2 | I got to give you the cello . |
| 3 | I tried to give her the kiss of life . |
| 4 | I decided to give him the name of ‘ Man Friday ’ , because I first saw him on a Friday . |
| 5 | So when Lewis turned up I decided to show him the money straight away . |
| 6 | , I remember right from when he was a baby as I went to see him the day his mum brought him home . |
| 7 | I do n't see how she can do the hours , with the hours that she 's doing , I mean she 's still in the Penny Farthing when I came here cos I went to pay her the money . |
| 8 | I had to give them the keys . |
| 9 | I had to ask him the way to the police station . |
| 10 | I had to tell him the news myself |
| 11 | When the studios were built , I wanted to record some of the songs I knew when I was young and I wanted to record them the way I wanted to hear them . |
| 12 | ‘ I wanted to tell you the morning you left , but you were in such a hurry to be gone and — ’ |
| 13 | I brought you up here because I wanted to show you the house I 've bought in Oxfordshire . |
| 14 | Papers which fought to win him the election have , like so many of his back-benchers and supporters , turned against him . |
| 15 | I saw this ad on the back of a matchbox which promised to show me the way to achieve success without having to go through college . |
| 16 | In the end she agreed to give him the money for " Jack 's " fare . |
| 17 | But as she bent to give her the bowl , she lowered her voice , and whispered in Rosa 's ear , ‘ Be careful , you 're not a child any more , you must n't forget that . |
| 18 | ‘ Why she seemed to dislike me the moment she set eyes on me . |
| 19 | Retracing her steps , she encountered one of the paper 's rare female employees , who offered to show her the way to the library . |
| 20 | This did indeed occur , for when she went to embrace him the bodies of the lover and the beloved merged forever , becoming a double-sexed being — a youth with the breasts of a woman . |
| 21 | Then her father returned , and she had to tell him the story all over again . |
| 22 | And while she longed to tell him the truth , she dared not do so . |
| 23 | She did n't want Georg back but she wanted to hurt him the way Gesner had hurt her . |
| 24 | She wanted to tell him the rest of it ; tell him what Mrs Gotobed had told her to tell Mr Evans and ask Albert what he thought she had meant , but she could n't think how to put it without making herself sound fearfully stupid . |
| 25 | Their eyes met for a split second , bleak green against ice-blue , and in that fleeting moment she wanted to tell him the truth , she wanted to explain , repaint the picture that had been mistakenly built up . |
| 26 | And I think they tried to drug me the night before I rode Shine On at York . ’ |
| 27 | She should stop him , should grab that exploring finger , but something within her refused to give him the satisfaction . |
| 28 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |
| 29 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |
| 30 | So he agreed to give her the camera , show her how to use it ; he 'd make sure the family were out the afternoon she came round to get the film developed . |