Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Let him call it an English fief if he will , it makes no difference to the truth , it 's but a word . |
| 32 | Then , ‘ after a great deal more chit-chat I let him kiss me a tender goodnight on the doorstep with the promise to phone when he could and , gathering up my ermines , swept into the great portal . |
| 33 | ‘ Now it 's great to be going back there in a successful side — I only hope they give me a good reception . ’ |
| 34 | We will meet at Fortingall tomorrow , and let us make it the biggest meeting of all — the Glen Lyon folk will join us there , and once Breadalbane joins with Atholl , then they will know that the whole people is on thy move . |
| 35 | I know that Coventry is nowhere near Calderdale , but let us see what the hon. Gentleman can do . |
| 36 | I queried it , I mean she gave me a precise figure of twenty thousand , and six hundred and fifty five something or other . |
| 37 | Shirley give her give her a little bit of coaching on the angles and things |
| 38 | But they are particularly easy to mark , but I suspect they give us a false sense of objectivity and I think we sometimes give the statistics a little bit too much weight . |
| 39 | ‘ When I beat Nick for the Barcelona Open it gave me a three-year exemption on the tour but it turned out to be a £90,000 exemption — that 's what it cost me to keep playing until I lost it in 1991 . ’ |
| 40 | cos I know I know which the safer bet is and that 's all I 'm going to say . |
| 41 | If we feel that someone has a high opinion of us we tend to want to live up to it , but few of us bother to make much effort with anyone we know who gives us a low rating , and this is very much the case between mothers-in-law and sons-in-law . |
| 42 | Not to , I know we saw it the other night did n't we ? |
| 43 | Oh yeah all the all the hits er like er Bunch of Time and and Maggie and Old Flames and after all these years , if did n't do those you 'd be shot afterwards like but er what we do with the songs that that were like you know hit singles and that people really come to hear we make sure that you know that we do those and then we put in er you know what we think would be the favourite ones from albums and then we add in a sprinkling of the stuff from the new album so you know we give them a good cross-section for an hour and a half and then we have a good first half of the show as well we 've got first half of the show as well and our band go on with him for forty minutes and er they perform as well a few soloists and er then Tony and myself come on and we do an hour and a half and we go right everything we do on stage we have recorded at some time , we do n't do something that we have n't recorded . |
| 44 | If you tell him to jump a jump twice , he does it ; but when you tell him to jump it a third time , he says , ‘ I 've had it , I 've done it twice and I 'm not going to do it again ! ’ |
| 45 | Far as I remember he called me a nasty name and I slapped his wrist . ’ |
| 46 | I remember your saying it a long time ago . ’ |
| 47 | Allow me to offer you a nice fly from my store . ’ |
| 48 | ‘ You still believe I rejected you the first time , do n't you ? ’ |
| 49 | Yet , in sharp contrast , village life here moves little faster than at a slow donkey 's pace and has a simple , rustic feel which gives it a special charm . |
| 50 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
| 51 | I loved it and I honestly feel it did me an enormous amount of good in calming my mind and making my body more supple ( although as a Christian I do n't practise meditative yoga ) . |
| 52 | I guess he taught me the right way , because after a couple of years , when I heard something , I knew what it was before any intellectual wheels were turning in my head . |
| 53 | No , but I mean they do it the easy way the |
| 54 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 55 | Telephone the AA and ask them to tell you the best route . |
| 56 | I 'll go through it again once we 've seen the film , and ask you to give me the main points that came out of the film . |
| 57 | Can I thank Jim very much indeed for attending our conference this morning and ask him to give us a civic welcome . |
| 58 | I doubt he gave her a second thought , once he 'd pulled his trousers back on and ushered her into the first available taxi . |
| 59 | My goal in this paper is to examine this literature critically , and then use it to ascertain what the appropriate antitrust treatment of research joint ventures should be . |
| 60 | Remind me to give you a big kiss some time . ’ |