Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got to show you the that |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I forget to tell you the other night . |
| 4 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 5 | I try to keep it the same time . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | The longer I waited to tell her the harder it became . |
| 8 | I have to tell you the terrible things I thought about you when I stumbled into that nursery , part of the rooms you had locked away from me . |
| 9 | She came to see me the first night I was home , and we sat on the verandah , rather tongue-tied after such a long time , saying stupid things like : " Did you have a good trip ? " |
| 10 | ‘ Are you going to give me the macho caveman act ? |
| 11 | So she had to do it the slow way . |
| 12 | He took her hand , linking his long , hard fingers between hers , joining them in a physical as well as a mental bond , and suddenly Fran knew that she wanted to tell him the one thing that had fashioned her into the woman she was . |
| 13 | If you choose me then you have to tell me the whole truth — who your accomplice is . |
| 14 | Yeah , so you have to make them the same . |
| 15 | We want to show them the best . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , but we want to get it the right way about , ’ said Pumlumon . |
| 17 | We tried to make it the best school , and it was an outstanding girls ' school . " |
| 18 | But this did n't stick , and because his style was as I have said to always sit and wait , and never to make the first move , we began to call him The Older Man ; and then this became just Older , and finally just O. |
| 19 | Well , we deal with a wide range of different groups , and erm we 've got to produce a best advice list , and er we try to find you the best contract available in the market . |
| 20 | Alright , she 'll be expecting she reckons she 's due on the twenty third of March , but the hospital say it 's , it 's the twenty ninth , so it 'll be next week , I 'll have to give a ring , we went to see her the other week , to see how she was , erm we went round er one night , I rung her up to see if she 'd be in , I said right we 'll be round for an hour |
| 21 | At Parcelforce , we aim to give you the best possible service and to be fair in all our dealings with you . |
| 22 | At Royal Mail , we aim to give you the best possible service and to be fair in all our dealings with you . |
| 23 | ’ There was even some guy in Minnesota or Detroit or somewhere who killed a load of people and they started to call them the Lost Boy Murders , but I did n't take too much notice of it all . |
| 24 | A peek through the window showed that the taxi had arrived , brief farewells were made to the men , and Karl left , promising to ring them the next day and making mock threats to Erika and Paul should they forget to meet him the following Sunday . |
| 25 | Part of him longed to tell her the true tale , though , sending up the dour moralistic headmaster and the schoolgirl 's screams at the sight of a perfectly natural part of his body . |
| 26 | they 'd take a piece with them and that was all they had to sustain them the whole day . |
| 27 | He came to see me the other evening . |
| 28 | For several years he has been a helper , and having decided to return to Birmingham where he had a distinguished career as a teacher of English , he resolved to give us the greater part of the library , collected over many years by himself and his late wife . |
| 29 | Must remember that phrase : he could see it had struck and it struck him too : he paused to give it the silent applause of a mute punctuation . |
| 30 | He wanted to tell her the whole story then , but he was afraid of what she might think . |