Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bring them in one at a time and show them a series of articles such as a pot , a plate , a flask and a small stool . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll have Lou Collins pick them up himself at the airbase on touchdown . ’ |
| 3 | Otherwise , use two or more cards , attach entry token to the top postcard and send them to us in an envelope . |
| 4 | ‘ If you want me with you for a business meeting , ’ she protested huskily , ‘ you 're not acting in a very businesslike manner ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Would you really , a man of your enormous wealth , sue someone like me for a sum that to you is little more than pocket-money , but to me represents my very livelihood ? |
| 6 | ‘ Look here , Miss O'Brien , if you 're really serious , why do n't you write a few handbills , saying what ’ Factota Limited' is and explaining its aims , and send one to everyone in the village ? |
| 7 | ‘ Scroungers ’ expect something for nothing from the Welfare State , rather than offering a fair day 's work for a fair day 's pay . |
| 8 | , look at the sentence below , will the management charges greatly increase , the answers no because time has shown the management charges rise at a rate below the level of inflation I suggest it to you to the ordinary person , they would think that the management charges there meant the costs that are listed above see |
| 9 | Send it to one at a time and be prepared to wait a good while for a reply . |
| 10 | Just fill in the form overleaf and send it to us in the envelope provided — no stamp needed . |
| 11 | Conversely , it is possible to take a sentence from a language teaching or linguistics textbook , go to the country where the language is spoken , say it to someone in a suitable situation , and achieve something by saying it . |
| 12 | I stick the fire on in my room and warm myself by it for a bit . |
| 13 | Then he enquired , ‘ Did n't Celia , as a little girl , ever say anything to you about the incident at the Cove ? ’ |
| 14 | Gossip put nothing of himself to the test but his patience . |
| 15 | William took her empty glass and put it with his on the bedside table . |
| 16 | really answer the first part of the Noble Lord 's question by saying that er er it is a question of future cost , er we are er we are already spending a great deal of money on the first part er of this er library and er we will have to examine the future cost very carefully and I put it to you to the Noble Lord that it would be a really sad reflection where the field of creative endeavour in which this country is m has most excelled over the centuries , in other words literature to have no single focus for celebration , preservation and active use , it really is er very important that this library continues , but may I remind Your Lordships also that we 're not talking about the s the library in this question , we 're talking about the u the site at present used by the builders . |
| 17 | engineering , science in general , physics , it 's not Anyone can do the maths because you just put it in your in the calculator and if it |
| 18 | I 'll have to you 've got ta give me chance to buy papa and grandma 's grandpa 's and I can wrap them up and give them to them at the golden wedding or ca n't I ? |
| 19 | on the training course or guide you through it on the training course . |
| 20 | They can even identify with it and incorporate it inside themselves in a less monstrous form . |
| 21 | We can only pass an Act of Parliament and give it to them with a slap on the back and a ‘ best of British luck ’ : ‘ Here 's your constitution , ’ we say , ‘ now do what you like with it ; you can because you are now independent . ’ |
| 22 | And like half way through it they said ehm , they 've giving somebody the wrong prize money or something , they 've giving somebody fifty pounds , they should off giving it to this other coloured women right , and apparently this women was giving it all wow man yeah man , and all this you , you know they give it to them in the end and then she won the twelve hundred pounds . |
| 23 | They give it to me at the end of the lesson . |
| 24 | You see if I was to say to you , right well I am gon na go out and purchase something , I 'm gon na get something and give it to you as a gift |
| 25 | Always bring something with you to a supervision : ideas which you have written down , an outline of an essay , a text you want to talk about , or a plan of action . |
| 26 | But they had no place in public life , and we hear nothing about them in the Historia Novorum , which is concerned with events to which we must now turn . |
| 27 | " They know nothing about you at the Lab . |
| 28 | Wrap it around me like a Cupid-woven shawl and then let's dance together in this maze we call living , searching for the centre which we all know is death . |
| 29 | In Chapter 8 I analyse the manner in which experiences themselves present themselves to us in a biographical context . |
| 30 | I used to borrow my wife 's nutmeg grater and then I 'd grate up some of the root and feed it to 'em with the chaff . ’ |