Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I took the pins from my hair to dry it a bit and it sprang free . |
2 | I hope it will be my privilege to buy you a drink as well . |
3 | So I forced my Mum to buy me a guitar — it was just a crappy acoustic , with the strings about an inch away from the frets . ’ |
4 | ‘ Clive Griffiths , the Welsh coach , may persuade me to play against France in a few weeks ' time but I have made up my mind to call it a day , ’ he said last night . |
5 | ‘ Otherwise , I will use my influence to find you an apprenticeship at one of the better fashion establishments . ’ |
6 | It was part of my job to give them a crash course . |
7 | I want six pairs of feet and then I 'd have to stand on my head to give them a rest ’ . |
8 | 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 ? ’ |
9 | I almost feel it 's my duty to show you the error of your ways . |
10 | Her attempts to teach them a step was hysterical . |
11 | ‘ If they do n't drive , then they ask their husbands to give them a lift . |
12 | Alyssia opened her mouth to give him a piece of her mind at this further show of arrogance — in fact , to give him the sack , because his mere presence here implied that he was working for her father , and so , in an indirect manner , for herself — but he did n't allow her the chance . |
13 | Jacqui gurgled something incomprehensible , as Kattina 's tongue shot into her mouth to save her the embarrassment of replying . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | One or two of my friends made it their business to send me the cutting from the Paternoster Review . |
16 | Despite all her efforts to ignore it the sensation lingered on to torment her long after the contact had been broken . |
17 | They 're now sitting up in bed , waiting for their aunt to give them a kiss — and looking like little angels , ’ Julie told her , adding with a grin , ‘ which , of course , they are n't ! ’ |
18 | The NRA are doing their utmost to make it a home from home . |
19 | I do n't think it was her mother to tell you the truth . |
20 | In his Reith lectures , broadcast in 1991 and now published as a book , he has set aside his snails to give us a glimpse of human evolution through his geneticist 's eye . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Finally he 'll decide to go and tinker with his terminal to tell him the tally to date . |
23 | The Bomb Circle , my dad 's leg and his stick , his reluctance to get me a motorbike perhaps , the candles in the skull , the legions of dead mice and hamsters — they 're all the fault of Agnes , my father 's second wife and my mother . |
24 | One high-earning salesperson of office equipment attributed his success to the preparation he conducted before every sales visit ; this involved knowing his product 's capabilities , understanding his client 's needs , and matching these together by getting his wife to test him every evening and at the weekend ( Kennedy et al. , 1980 ) . |
25 | She nodded slightly , and he bent his head to give her a kiss which was meant to be fleeting , but which went on and on until they were breathless and shaken when he put her away from him at last . |
26 | I 'll talk to you about one of his experiments to give you a sort of flavour of it , although other people and himself and others have done a lot of interesting work that 's similar . |
27 | ‘ Ask the waiter with the dent in his forehead to give you a bucketful of ice cubes and three or four napkins . |
28 | The King ordered his people to make me a bed , using six hundred Lilliputian beds . |
29 | Some months earlier , in the autumn of 1182 , young Henry had once again asked his father to give him a principality , Normandy , so that he could make proper provision for his own knights . |
30 | He was astonished to find three detectives knocking at his door to arrest him a couple of days later . |