Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the Office of Fair Trading , there 's evidence that some building societies choose firms that bring them mortgage business in return , so your estate agent may be tempted to steer you towards a building society that he needs to butter up . |
| 2 | Although there are between 30,000 and 50,000 Somalis squatting in the tiny littoral state of Djibouti , its government does not grant them refugee status and deports any Somalis - guerrillas or refugees — it catches crossing the border . |
| 3 | Well no I 'm gon na open Michelle and Andy 's and they 're gon na open ours I did n't bring everybody else 's cos we co we 're seeing them Christmas Day . |
| 4 | And precisely what distressed her about John 's outburst was that it once more put that distance between them ; it made them opposites sinner and sinned against , penitent and confessor , worm and angel . |
| 5 | Fru Gertlinger , the young wife of the gardener at the Villa , recently become housekeeper , made them picnic lunches and every day they rode out early to check their notes and make sure that they had missed nothing . |
| 6 | Its PC-software strategy centres on brand loyalty : lure customers in with operating systems , sell them applications software , keep them sweet — and the cash flowing in — with regular upgrades . |
| 7 | ‘ Cherry Pie ’ , the band claim , is all their own , and it will make them dollar millionaires . |
| 8 | ‘ Cherry Pie ’ , the band claim , is all their own , and it will make them dollar millionaires . |
| 9 | Even though their main aim has been consolidation in the league , a win today could even make them title outsiders . |
| 10 | He gave me every encouragement , lent me camp equipment , provided me with a Somali called Ali as my headman and helped me collect the necessary servants . |
| 11 | What you mean them security lights ? |
| 12 | He himself says in his 2nd Edition of the Perambulation of Kent , which he revised whilst living here , " At this place of the Bishop in Halling I am drawing on the last scene of my life , where God has given me Liberorum Ouadrigam , all the fruit that I ever had " . |
| 13 | The Right to Buy given to all Council tenants opposed by the Labour Party , has allowed one point two million Council homes to be sold to their existing tenants and make them home owners , and home ownership is a central plank of our policy . |
| 14 | The behaviour of Violet Needham 's young characters and the patterns and manners in her books make them period pieces nowadays ; her prim , earnest , winning girls and ardent , courteous boys are as alien to our times as Marco Lorestan is . |
| 15 | After a further period of three months or so , Don Bennett appointed me Group training inspector — and I became virtually a horse thief ! |
| 16 | The scholar fed his pet dragons on the choicest tit-bits , bringing them rump steaks of the purest virgins and a daily supply of swallows ' flesh — not realising that such things , for true dragons , are treats , are after-dinner delicacies and no more a fit diet than endless chocolates would be for you . |
| 17 | So you can get the three in there , and bung them in as one package you get them while they got them voucher things on offer . |
| 18 | They got them wash house ! |
| 19 | I got them rust ones . |
| 20 | When you send them send them Parcel Class but insure them for the top amount , |
| 21 | You can buy them mail order from Van Tubergen UK Ltd , Bressingham , Diss , Norfolk IP22 3AA . |
| 22 | Oh we can buy them Susan Kattomeat . |
| 23 | ‘ I want me penny back . |
| 24 | Oh you , you do n't need me driving license do ya ? |
| 25 | The children were still crying so their mother promised them ice cream and sweets from the city . |
| 26 | In our society , with the erosion of class barriers as we used to know them job description is an important measure of social standing . |
| 27 | No what amazes me Mr Chairman is that here we are , we 're being cost conscious on every ground and we 're saying we 're making a statement that we enter into an exercise that we have no idea , we 're not asking for the actual cost , we are asking , we are asking you must of had an idea what it would cost or I feel Mr Chairman that that , can I put it mildly , lack of planning and certainly financial planning possibly |
| 28 | So he has me do that and on other songs he has me play bass . |
| 29 | You , you did promise me Mr Chairman , that I could just ask a quick question . |
| 30 | ‘ Back ter Sunday school , I 've forgotten me test card , ’ I lied . |