Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [to-vb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 2 | He 's instructed me to give you the ride on Shine On at York next week . |
| 3 | Oh I like if I 'd have known you were going I 'd have got you to get me the nut ones . |
| 4 | Whitlock had wanted to remain on duty for the banquet at the United Nations that evening but Kolchinsky had told him to call it a day . |
| 5 | ‘ Dr Greene has deputised you to show me the sonogram pictures and explain them , I hope . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Someone in the audience has asked me to greet them the way the chimpanzees greet each other in the wild at Gombe , ’ Jane Goodall began . |
| 7 | Only Mrs McMahon could still be affected — and she had asked her to keep it a secret . |
| 8 | When Giorgio had descended on us that day in the train he had asked her to advance him the money to build the new car , and when she had turned him down he was furious . |
| 9 | I 've asked 'em to sell me the land so I can develop it but they wo n't see sense . |
| 10 | Of course , her generous spirit about staff using the amenities of the lodge also allowed her to pay them a pittance that had made Charity 's small salary as an intern seem princely . |
| 11 | After she had been introduced to him he had sent her to get him a cup of coffee , but not before patting her behind . |