Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got to show you the that |
| 2 | So I tend to give them a wide berth wherever possible . |
| 3 | I tried to give him a withering look . |
| 4 | I tried to ring her the other day as going to a seminar at my solicitors office nearby and had hoped to walk up plus dog , leave Bella for duration of seminar and pick her up again = kill exercise bird with seminar stone as it were . |
| 5 | ‘ I forget to tell you the other night . |
| 6 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 7 | ‘ But I want to give you a little help with your wicket keeping . |
| 8 | I want to ask her an embarrassing question . ’ |
| 9 | I I 'm very grateful to the minister but I want to ask him a straightforward question . |
| 10 | I 'm doing it tomorrow cos I want to leave it a little bit |
| 11 | I want I want to tell you a secret |
| 12 | I want to make him an excellent offer for Sleet , one impossible to refuse . |
| 13 | What happens if he says well I want to alter it a little bit ? |
| 14 | So er to look at it er another way , w I , I 'll stop before I go back to the erm slides , because I want to show you a few on you know erm er the way that money 's worked over the last forty years , but if you look at index-linked certificates , cos somebody mentioned that , are they worth having ? |
| 15 | Erm I came to see you a few weeks ago at night you know er It 's just like I 'm just filling up , you know , with mucus and stuff and coughing and I had er no sleep for about a week . |
| 16 | Corky 's taking an age typing them all in — even slower since I threatened to give him a good lashing ! |
| 17 | By this time Desmond had nearly stopped on the flarepath and I decided to give him a wide berth . |
| 18 | So anyway , I er , I decided to give him a second chance , so I explained calmly , and with grim patience , |
| 19 | To make life easier for us all I started to teach her a few commands , but I found she would obey any order before it was given . |
| 20 | ‘ I meant to ask you a long time ago and I forgot to . |
| 21 | I try to keep it the same time . |
| 22 | ‘ I try to make it a therapeutic education process for the abductees as well . |
| 23 | When I smile at her , I try to make it a fatherly smile . |
| 24 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 25 | I had to give him a bloody week ! |
| 26 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 27 | The longer I waited to tell her the harder it became . |
| 28 | ‘ Besides , I wish to ask you a big favour . ’ |
| 29 | I have to give it an important-sounding name . |
| 30 | Head and shoulders , knees and toes , knees and toes , head and shoulders , knees and toes , knees and toes , and eyes and ears and mouth and nose , head and shoulders , knees and toes , me and he , I have to do it a little bit faster |