Example sentences of "the [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will take a great deal of money to do it properly and I 'm only interested in doing it if I have the support to give me a chance of winning . |
| 2 | A chance meeting with Dr Kathy Lang at a database user group and the subsequent investigation of Ventura led Tony Gamble to make the decision to give it a try . |
| 3 | ‘ I came to see if there was anything in the apartment to give me a lead on who killed Mahoney , ’ I said . |
| 4 | This so delighted the King that he asked the University to make him a Doctor of Divinity . |
| 5 | In a Christian country , this book would be banned altogether instead of which so-called poverty-stricken Merseysiders have the wherewithal to make it a sell-out . |
| 6 | Someone , in other words , who is likely to take silk , but likely to take it at a time sufficiently far in the future to give you a chance of stepping into part of his practice as a junior . |
| 7 | There , a former customer of the plaintiffs gave evidence that he had met the defendant in the street and mentioned to him that he had heard he had set up his own business and wanted the defendant to cut him a suit . |
| 8 | For the law to grant him a defence in these circumstances would be to grant a licence for sexual exploitation . |
| 9 | Her husband had begged the Judge to spare her a jail sentence . |
| 10 | Moscow was also offended by the refusal of the Anglo-Americans to give her a share in controlling the German industrial heartland , the Ruhr , which lay in the British zone . |
| 11 | But then she remembered Tony , and how grateful she would have been to anyone who had had the courage to give her a hint of his real nature … |
| 12 | He chooses the number and the girl chosen goes outside the room to give him a kiss . |
| 13 | You 're just tired and exhausted , she told herself firmly , forcing herself to walk calmly across the room to hand him a glass . |
| 14 | Gould was torn between the need to preserve his specimens and the desire to keep them a secret . |
| 15 | He opened the lid to show me a batch of dirty , dog-eared cards inside . |
| 16 | IN THE ancient fable the frogs called on the gods to give them a king . |
| 17 | AT THE end of the Treta , or Second Age , Dasaratha , the childless king of the Solar race , performed the Aswa-medha sacrifice of horses and begged the gods to grant him a son . |
| 18 | If he gets up in the middle of the night to fetch you a glass of water , then he loves you . ’ |
| 19 | He put her suitcases down in the driveway and reached into the boot to pass her a carry-case which Belinda recognised as containing a portable monitor , something like an electrically amplified stethoscope , which meant that it was often possible for a pregnant woman to hear her baby 's heartbeat as early as ten weeks into the pregnancy . |
| 20 | ‘ Tell the landlord to give him a shirt and breeches . |
| 21 | ( Would he seize the chance to give her a message , without her mother seeing through her ruse ? |
| 22 | Stepping is the new fashion in exercise and if you have n't tried it this could be the chance to give it a go . |
| 23 | A path is now being beaten to the door of McGrain , who could not convince anybody in the game to give him a job in management for five years after he left Celtic . |
| 24 | At PRO Dogs awards dinner he looked so loveable , the urge to give him a hug was almost impossible to resist . |
| 25 | I told the servants to keep it a secret . ’ |
| 26 | Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down . |
| 27 | Four of the biggest British companies in the waste-to-energy business ( generating power from waste ) have formed a lobby group to persuade the government to grant them a subsidy . |
| 28 | They stopped on a straight stretch of upland road blatantly obvious and since there was a can of oil in the boot Maxim opened the bonnet to give them a cover story of the oil warming light having come on . |
| 29 | ‘ If it 's a problem , ’ Charlie was saying , ‘ get the kid to lend you a hand . ’ |
| 30 | Outside the hotel she asked the doorman to get her a cab . |