Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his own political outlook was also vital : ‘ Those influences made me want to write a history of the game 's toilers , the hired labourers . |
| 2 | Your wife should contact your tax office , or call at the nearest local office , and ask them to arrange to open a set of records for her . |
| 3 | The crisis leading to Lenihan 's dismissal arose in connection with reports that in January 1982 the Fianna Fáil leadership had attempted to persuade President Patrick Hillery by telephone to allow them to try to form a government without calling a general election . |
| 4 | ‘ He just asked how you were , made me promise to keep an eye on you , then rang off , ’ she said , frowning . |
| 5 | None of them has made a hash of things like the British government . |
| 6 | Any chance one or other of them has had an attack of conscience and decided to pay it back ? ’ |
| 7 | Lisa 's letter inspired me to try to write a verse on the subject ( not very good , but here it is ) |
| 8 | But they 've done a tabloid internally and they 've asked me to come to take a look at it . |
| 9 | I asked to see a breakdown of the price quoted to me and found that I was being charged four times more than the normal retail price for curtain tape and hooks and was quoted for more material than I needed . |
| 10 | Why on earth would I want to do a thing like that ? ’ |
| 11 | That 's why I thought , when I come back the next time and you 're upset I said oh no way do I want to upset a woman like that . |
| 12 | Well he said they 'd been round with a helicopter , a plane taking photos of the houses , did I want to buy a photo of me house , twenty pound . |
| 13 | It 's asking do I want to keep a hold on one of these two , and if so , which ? |
| 14 | selling and getting a result on that you see I 've covered a lot of stuff for you on that , I 've covered quite a bit with you on , er product knowledge , now would you say that you 're reasonably together there and where you want to be on product knowledge ? |
| 15 | ‘ I can see I 've made a fool of myself again . |
| 16 | See I 've had a couple of colds the past few months and then you think , well that 's me , I 'm getting better . |
| 17 | If we ca n't e e I 've had a couple of months of stock on the shelf for 'em . |
| 18 | I 've been asked by a market research to do I 've got a tape on it 's for , dictionaries . |
| 19 | I mean getting a job on the land ? ’ |
| 20 | No I think , I , I mean see a lot of languages and I think you 're doing very well . |
| 21 | I mean doing a couple of tables probably wo n't be that hard work cos it just be a case of a list of averages or something . |
| 22 | Erm it will I think leave a bit of a gap . |
| 23 | ‘ I intend posting a guard outside this door . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Actually I intend to drop a word in your ear concerning the matter , ’ he said in a voice that now held a grim note . |
| 25 | My tank is 6' × 2' × 2' and I intend to keep a selection of Clownfish , Wrasse , Damsels , Tangs and Gobies . |
| 26 | Yet somehow Edward must be appeased , so I sought to make a virtue of my ignorance , asking questions that would allow him to air his greater experience . |
| 27 | Personally I thought the fears overdone , but nevertheless I sought to find a way of transferring the operation to the private sector which would minimize the risk of industrial action . |
| 28 | I agreed to take a look at these efforts , and we arranged to meet next day after my morning lectures . |
| 29 | I failed to play a tape throughout the weekend of a drill relentlessly droning away in some shelfless room out of sight . |
| 30 | Three days post-spawning I planned to remove a percentage of the anticipated hatch to rear separately and began to prepare another tank , only to find the female eating the eggs before I was fully prepared . |