Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I will find work and make money to keep us , while you look for something . |
| 2 | ‘ I asked Mum to help me . |
| 3 | Most of the publications which are likely to be interested in using pictures like these do not use colour photographs , so there is no point in wasting money taking them . |
| 4 | If you 're wearing , if you 're wearing headphones right you do n't stop everybody 's bound to work out and everyone lets you wear them , everyone 's bound to work out you 've been given permission to wear them . |
| 5 | It was not until Lady Diana Spencer was formally engaged to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales that she was given permission to call him ‘ Charles ’ . |
| 6 | Then some lads from the Cameron Highlanders were given permission to bury him . |
| 7 | The group left , reportedly after being told by Papua New Guinea officials that the Indonesians would be given permission to remove them by force . |
| 8 | He asked permission to leave it for her the following day . |
| 9 | To do that , on May 18th the prime minister , Leonid Kuchma , asked parliament to grant him a range of extraordinary powers : to rule the economy by decree , control the central bank and the state privatisation body and have jurisdiction over the president 's satraps in the regions . |
| 10 | Occasionally a garishly painted truck passed us , raising a cloud of dust , and away to the west , hanging over us and clearly visible now that the clouds had lifted , the coastal range of the cordilleras towered pale and trembling in the heat . |
| 11 | She said she did not want any birthday presents unless they could be enjoyed by everyone , so her friends spent £500 on young trees and got permission to plant them around the town . |
| 12 | I had an actor once who was condemned to hang for stealing a sheep — or a lamb , I forget which — so I got permission to have him hanged in the middle of a play — had to change the plot a bit but I thought it would be effective , you know — and you would n't believe it , he just was n't convincing ! |
| 13 | Mark : I was in a relationship from about 1981 to 1984 and , in a sense , I did not think AIDS affected me very greatly and it was not very high in my consciousness . |
| 14 | As the game progresses , owners should start to win the chase or the tug-of-war so , by the end of each game scenario — before Fido has lost interest — they are in possession of the toy , playing with it and not allowing Fido to have it . |
| 15 | Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear . |
| 16 | But , of course , the West was using force to prevent them going anywhere . |
| 17 | If you are using undergravel filters you will need to increase the dose by 50% . |
| 18 | But the fact that they see the same pl face See not everybody wants to talk to a policeman to report crime do they ? |
| 19 | New details from the South Down Machine Knitting Club inform us that afternoon meetings will be held on the second Monday in the month between 2 pm and 4 pm . |
| 20 | I say Mum calls me Anthony when she 's telling me off . |
| 21 | Has Mum told you that we 're going out for a Chinese ? |
| 22 | Oh you want money do you ? |
| 23 | The director needs freedom to offer it and the other person freedom to receive it , and this very much depends on the trustful quality of the relationship already built . |
| 24 | On the one hand , I want fatherhood to make me a better person because I believe that , once I have the responsibility of looking after a child , giving up smoking and drinking and spending money on the motorbike will be a doddle . |
| 25 | Her plot is high-flown twaddle : dazzling romantic novelist with immense fortune has difficulty dividing it between three even more dazzling and successful granddaughters ; devilishly attractive villain and many scenes in many beds . |
| 26 | Latecoming thunder caught us then , in its migraine-vice of sound as it rolled round and down the long Vénéon valley before the rains came . |
| 27 | I 've always enjoyed teaching _ it 's something which I feel is very important for someone who 's an historian . |
| 28 | An ability to accept change singles her out as a leader . |
| 29 | Culdrose Radar cleared us through the inactive low level danger area and agreed that we would follow the coastline through the combined MATZs . |
| 30 | Making tree ties properly is an art , and it needs practice to do it well . |