Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I forget to tell you the other night . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Are you going to give me the macho caveman act ? |
| 5 | So she had to do it the slow way . |
| 6 | If you choose me then you have to tell me the whole truth — who your accomplice is . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , but we want to get it the right way about , ’ said Pumlumon . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | ’ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | they 'd take a piece with them and that was all they had to sustain them the whole day . |
| 13 | He came to see me the other evening . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He wanted to tell her the whole story then , but he was afraid of what she might think . |