Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He wrote not to tell her this nor to send her any kind of greeting but because he wanted her to do something for him . |
| 2 | She began to tremble , but although he must surely have known that she was not enjoying what he was doing , he said and did nothing to reassure her , nor gave her any sign of love or affection . |
| 3 | How far this will work depends on how far we can inject into cross-curricular work the essence of our ideas and make them genuine focuses of our work ( and not peripheral elements ) . |
| 4 | As soon as I 'm awake , I stick the kettle on and make us two cups of tea . |
| 5 | May God send us His Holy Spirit and make us courageous followers of Jesus Christ our Lord . |
| 6 | The Central Area pulled all these parts together , as it were , and made them interdependent portions of the whole . |
| 7 | To secure the services of Reeves-Smith , he purchased the Berkeley Hotel in 1900 and appointed him managing director of the Savoy Company . |
| 8 | To include that issue in the forthcoming Student Loans Bill would make the measure hybrid and deny it any prospect of a swift passage through Parliament . |
| 9 | I say ‘ Yes ’ a lot and show them some photos of me on the Etive . |
| 10 | It was not long before his medical knowledge had ingratiated him with the prison doctor and afforded him all sorts of privileges . |
| 11 | Father Peter waved them back to their seats and went across and poured them generous stoups of ale from the jar just outside the small buttery door . |
| 12 | He 'll go and see her any time of the day or night . |
| 13 | But she also denied knowing Dassac , and the police subsequently discovered that she had had numerous telephone conversations with him and paid him large sums of money under a false name through a Swiss bank account . |
| 14 | Do this to all your doors , not just the exterior ones , and treat any panes of glass in doors as though they were windows and give them some sort of double glazing . |
| 15 | Moreover , Noorda must finally set up a line of succession and give us some indication of how Novell ( and Unix ) will function when he bows out . |
| 16 | The agency takes on any kind of job — you just name the subject and give us some indication of the kind of thing you want to know , and then we go out and get it for you . ’ |
| 17 | They can also tell you about worthwhile sightseeing and give you full details of excursions . |
| 18 | The sale proceeds will be used to pay off Heywood Williams 's debts and give it net cash of £65 million to fund expansion . |
| 19 | Oh , go and get me that packet of digestive biscuits |
| 20 | Yes , yeah , when I used to yeah , when I come home , we was courting then , I used to , old lady Mrs every Saturday when I went down the Fen , I used to have to go into the bakers and get her two ounces of yeast . |
| 21 | Father Peter took three earthenware bowls from a small cupboard near the inglenook and served them generous portions of soup from a black bowl which hung perilously from an iron hook above the flames . |
| 22 | Instead of lean convictions and supple value judgments , they treat us to a slick orgy of channel-hopping ( Hiltler word-bite plus Mapplethorpe sight-bite and so on ) and feed us quivering slices of deconstruction , done to a turn . |
| 23 | Then into the playroom for a chat with the birds , numerous visits to the corridor to talk to the fish and feed it two grains of fish food at a time . |
| 24 | Now , now that all was lost , lost too was the vanity of the bulging notebook , the diversity of material , the forward-looking pleasure of unpacking my treasures and giving them some kind of independent life . |
| 25 | and giving us General Paralysis of the Insane . |
| 26 | Gone is Mr Morley as presiding anchorman and the device of splitting the evening between actors and singers : instead we have Simon Cadell and Patricia Hodge evoking the platonic passion of Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence and giving us generous helpings of songs and scenes from the shows . |
| 27 | Judy our new Director will lead her team , of Simon , Richard and To and er Tony and I think it seems particularly er , appropriate and important that Judy at her first appearance here as Director , although many of us present , I know , would remember her wearing other hats , should have this opportunity of speaking the Councillor members and giving us some idea of how the Management Team see the future before us in the years to come . |
| 28 | The rest of us saw the year in in a hut halfway down the Greenstone valley ; the warden brewed her own beer , and brought us generous supplies of it ! |
| 29 | I know people in this sort of line of business who will sit here and tell you all sorts of |
| 30 | After conferring , the two signalmen decided to try and apprehend the person concerned , and after making sure that the control had been told of the situation and the boxes were safe to leave they walked towards each other , approaching the trespasser from opposite directions , so keeping him in view all the time and affording him little chance of escape . |