Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Bring me the bloody cheese grater in the !
2 bring me the drowsy country thing !
3 Make me a better job prospect . ’
4 They liaise with solicitors , surveyors , estate agents and builders , answer your questions , and send you a weekly progress report .
5 Come here till I show you a real fighting man ! ’
6 If , in a Rorschach test , I show you a symmetrical ink blot , you do not see merely an ink blot , but a bat , a witch , a face , or a dragon .
7 Jacob can go with you , and show you the old coach road that leads to the signpost .
8 Unfortunately , Bob Bigg 's Palace career was greatly reduced by a badly broken leg sustained at Newport in February 1937 , which kept him out of first-team action for fully 21 months , and some of the contemporary pundits reckoned that his absence cost us the single promotion place from Division 3 South in 1938–39 .
9 When you think of the work that the old grocer used to have to do you know , make you a three corner bag out of a bit of paper , to put a pennyworth of pepper in .
10 It wo n't actually lapse them off but it 'll , you know , give them a negative unit situation .
11 Bosses were warned yesterday that secretaries have the power to banish them to the back of aircraft or even give them a poor hire car .
12 If you grow some of the more vulnerable shrubs in an area where they are on the borderline of hardness , give them a little winter protection .
13 Sometimes we give them a little canvas pack , or they will fasten on to their keeper 's neck or earlobe , armpit or face .
14 We give them a little trinket box or a ring holder , it 's traditional , ’ she explains , in a charmingly deliberate Scots Italian voice .
15 The sort of stuff that you get in in y'know sort of everyday gossip between friends about y'know when people talk about each- other , oh I think he 's a bit er I think he 's a bit camp , or I think he probably is but erm yeah yeah all that kind of thing yeah erm is is like the the informal repertoire , the informal repertoire that you do between friends erm , between people to whom it sort of y'know it 's not very important if you give them the wrong impression sort of thing .
16 Just give me a general ball park figure .
17 Give me a six foot tank and I 'm more likely to put a shoal of small 25mm Tetras into it , along with a few Dwarf Cichlids and Corydoras , than use it for one or two larger fish .
18 ‘ Just give me a one way ticket to Gloucester before I break your fat necK ! ’
19 Give me a three letter word for a .
20 Oh shut up woman , shut up , you give me the bloody screaming abdabs , it 's my money I threw away .
21 He said , ‘ Give me the ten Forteviot men , mounted , and the best horses you have in exchange for our worst .
22 So take aways sometimes they work and sometimes they give you a nice counting number and sometimes they give you this thing .
23 Win the new Renault Clio We unveil a fantastic new six-part competition to win one of this year 's most exciting models , and give you the first plant posers that lead the way to £9,180-worth of gleaming new car !
24 Her two Deutz engines with 1670 HP each give her a comfortable cruising speed of 14 kn with a range of miles .
25 Tease your Mum this Mother 's Day — give her the new Plénitude Contour Regard from L'Oréal , for her ageing eyes !
26 Give him a little plastic clock .
27 Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person .
28 Although the polls give him the lowest performance rating of any post-war leader , Mr Major doubted there would be a challenge this year .
29 You must save the file and give it a recognised DOS filename for a permanent record of your work .
30 A combined series of moves that give it a keen cutting edge ; an experience to be remembered and savoured ; a problem that takes both skills and nerve to solve .
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