Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [to-vb] [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hello , good morning , I 've come to give you a driving lesson . |
| 2 | I 've come to ask you a favour . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ So you 've decided to give them an airing ? ’ |
| 4 | You 'd better let us look after you now , ’ or ‘ We 've talked it over , and we 've decided to offer you a home with us . ’ |
| 5 | We 've , we 've forgot to send them a card . |
| 6 | The amount at the top that you need is just enough to tie a reef knot oh I 've forgot to show you a reef knot did n't I ? |
| 7 | It 's great fun using a calculator when it 's a new toy but when you 've got to use it every time you need to work something out , |
| 8 | So I 've got to ask you the question ? |
| 9 | gon na be worth a lot of money , with some people you 've got to give them a couple of free tickets |
| 10 | We have to be fair , we 've got to give them the compensation . |
| 11 | So the third one comes up , the other one 's brother , and he says yeah I will but first of all you 've got to give me a corn on the cob with lots of butter on it to make it all slippery . |
| 12 | — You 've got to give it a chance . |
| 13 | He said now I 've got to give you a bollocking . |
| 14 | Oi , you lot , you 've got to give us a bit of because he 's the youngest here , |
| 15 | in order to get them , in order to get them to come , surely you 've got to sell them the idea that they 're going to get something useful out of it |
| 16 | What happens with that camera , you 've got to rewind it every time . |
| 17 | You 've got to tell them the truth ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Jacqui , you 've got to tell me the truth . |
| 19 | You 've got to make it the beginning and the end see what comes up looked it up or anything , thought erm he 's showing her what the younger generation , you know , are erm treating each other is n't he in a romantic way erm there 's not much romantic practice in the older generation is there , a bit more affection based on intimate knowledge of each other that sort of thing . |
| 20 | I 've managed to make him an appointment for one of the properties we were discussing earlier . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've managed to wangle her an apartment just a floor below Nicky and me , ’ Florian volunteered cheerfully . |
| 22 | I 've had them born in the car on the way the the mother have come to see me the father has brought her to see me thinking that if she could just see me she 'd be alright . |
| 23 | As there are many variations to this recipe , I have decided to give you a list of ingredients to experiment with until you find the one you like best . |
| 24 | ‘ His best club position is centre or full-back and I have agreed to give him a shot at fullback to see how he goes . |
| 25 | ‘ [ The works committee ] have agreed to give you an assurance that the council will consult with you in the review of highway access to the area around number three basin , in accordance with the terms of the planning permission granted , and will not simply impose upon you without your agreement an entirely new point of access and exterior routing that could have an extremely detrimental effect upon the viability of your scheme . |
| 26 | The agency have agreed to pay me a retainer for a couple of weeks while I think about what I 'd like to do next . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If you have experienced pros , you have got to show them the respect they deserve . |
| 28 | Suffice it to say that no one owns neighbourhood watch schemes , except those who belong to them and who have helped to make them a success . |
| 29 | The five-part Mass Fera Pessima — as its mutilated manuscript superscription should probably be read , though certain scholars have tried to dub it A Pessinuntia ( on account of its saturation in the dark Phrygian mode ) or even A Pestilentia ( speculatively linking it with an outbreak of plague in Stirling , where Carver might , or then again might not , have been living , in the 1940s ) — seems freely based on a plainsong of the Sarum rite derived from Chapter 37 of the Book of Genesis : ‘ Jacob … rent his garments . … |