Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect she gave you a good tea , ’ said my mother . |
| 2 | The reaction from the other side of the table is different because you are a woman , they expect you to do it a different way . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I suggest yer get yerself a good mouser , ’ Mr Goodrich told her in no uncertain manner . |
| 4 | Once again , deep down you know what a sensible level is ( probably less than what you 're consuming now ) . |
| 5 | I really want you to know what a fantastic job Celia 's done . |
| 6 | I want you to tell me a few things and then I 'll let you go back to sleep , all right ? ’ |
| 7 | I expect he gived you a funny answer |
| 8 | Well , let me tell you a short story . |
| 9 | Let me tell you a little story . |
| 10 | Let me tell you a little bit about the history . |
| 11 | ‘ Let me tell you a little bit about Domino , ’ he cut in deeply . |
| 12 | Let me fetch you a clean nightshirt , ’ said Florrie , throwing back the bedclothes . |
| 13 | But of course there is some choice erm let me give you a final southern er Africa example of this , Botswana geographically is one of those countries cut off from the sea , it 's a very large country but much of it is uninhabitable because it 's so arid it 's therefore a small country by almost any standards , number of people , the economy of er of Botswana is small and it 's frankly dependent upon South Africa in many ways for its transport , for its economic wellbeing , for the movement of people erm and even some educational resources . |
| 14 | Let me give you a personal illustration . |
| 15 | Let me give you a partial answer for the moment . |
| 16 | Let me give you a biblical example . |
| 17 | Let me give you a few examples : |
| 18 | Let me give you a few tips on how to make your pockets bulge … |
| 19 | Let me give you a few examples of the way in which our departments work . |
| 20 | Let me give you a brief word picture of the average transvestite . |
| 21 | But let me give you a particular tip here . |
| 22 | Let me give you a little drop of scotch . |
| 23 | If it seems an ambitious goal , let me ask you a simple question . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Now it 's great to be going back there in a successful side — I only hope they give me a good reception . ’ |
| 26 | I queried it , I mean she gave me a precise figure of twenty thousand , and six hundred and fifty five something or other . |
| 27 | Shirley give her give her a little bit of coaching on the angles and things |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |