Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was infuriated by his arrogant assumption that he could simply demand answers , infuriated still more by her own desire to simply cave in and tell him the truth . |
| 2 | I was just as confused as that day she came in and told me the news . |
| 3 | Then turning to Millie , whose expression almost broke her down and gave her the urge to take her by the hand and run from this place , only her good sense stopped her ; and bending down , she put her arms around the child and when she felt the tightness of the embrace and the pressure of the thin body against her belly , it was only with an effort she stopped the tears from flowing . |
| 4 | Sit down and give me the time I need to explain everything to you ? ’ |
| 5 | Now you can , those are both the same sides so you 're gon na en add them together and give it the sign that is common to both . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , go away and get us the coffee , ’ said Milton . |
| 7 | Philip pushed him away and gave him the torch to hold while he did up his lace . |
| 8 | We tried to get through and ask him the question on air . |
| 9 | He nodded politely and showed me the palm of a gloved hand . |
| 10 | Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ . |
| 11 | When Evelyn was judged fit to go back to work , Rose took her aside and gave her the story . |
| 12 | It will provide spacious accommodation for the journey home and spare you the expense of my fare . ’ |
| 13 | He could walk right up and ask it the question that burned within him . |
| 14 | I , I , I 'd would teach them to stand up and tell them the truth , there do n't appear to be too many of them about these days |
| 15 | Our table felt it was worth £20 of tickets for a woman to put her hand up and show him the error of his ways , but we 'd already forked out enough , honest . |
| 16 | As he fished , twisting his wrist back and forth , trying to get hold of more , a policeman came up and handed him the pile off the pavement . |
| 17 | His father raised him up and gave him the kiss of peace . |
| 18 | When surveyors started sizing up her land , ‘ I got my shotgun out and showed them the gate , ' she said . |
| 19 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 20 | So why do n't you put an end to it here and now and tell me the truth ? |
| 21 | But nobody come back and give us the go-ahead to do it . |
| 22 | But later he had come back and handed her the letter , the letter Adamus had typed , from the Scarabae . |
| 23 | Porter , one of the country 's most respected authorities on paediatrics , had taken a shy Puerto Rican intern called Carmen Rodriguez under his wing twenty years ago and given her the confidence to start up her own practice soon after graduating from medical school , and she was now one of New York 's most popular and in demand paediatricians . |
| 24 | Reflecting on the new and indeed unlikely scenario Collie Curran said : ‘ PJ McGowan came in three years ago and showed us the way ahead . |
| 25 | ‘ Disney executives flew me out there and gave me the kind of treatment I 'd always dreamed about when I was an actress … bouquets , champagne , limousines , ’ says Lynda . |
| 26 | What we do at the end of the year we have n't quite worked out , but we are very much committed to sharing child care and professional space if you like , but we are very privileged in that academic work allows one the flexibility to work in the hours that you find convenient and so on and allows you the flexibility to make this kind of family arrangement . |
| 27 | How Alan kept his temper I will never know , but he quietly sorted out the mess , mounted a huge Loch Ordie , rowed out from the shore again and handed me the fly rod : ‘ Here , Bruce , you fish , I 'll work the dap and mind the oars . ’ |
| 28 | Explain to him how you feel and chat to his parents , who may rally round and give you the support he refuses to give you . |
| 29 | One of two things happen he 'll ei he 'll either say yeah , okay and give you the number or what might happen ? |
| 30 | Go and visit the marchioness to-morrow and tell her the story . |