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Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] i [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ It 's not on at all for a brother-in-law to treat me the way you treat me .
2	I first discovered Emily 's dubious devotion to duty in Cannes , when a French Moroccan chap caught hold of my arm in an attempt to sell me a lurid rug .
3	The report , for the local authorities reports mentioned in the committee item is an attempt to give me the subject of car boot sales a fairly wide airing .
4	Mother says I must n't grow any more till she 's collected enough wool to knit me a bigger one .
5	Yes , everybody , O K , now I 'll pay the phone bill , all I want you to do is pick up the phone and every time you pick up the phone and make an attempt to get me an appointment , I 'll give you a pound .
6	He drew out a sturdy transparent plastic inner bag and held it up to the light to show me the contents .
7	I would just like again to say special thanks to Ernie , Mel and Neil for all their support and I hope they 're gon na be first in bar to buy me a drink .
8	‘ It seemed to take less of a hit to give me a concussion and it 's taking me longer to recover , ’ he says .
9	I 've been on the other side of things often enough — guitar in hand , waiting for someone behind a mixing desk to give me the word to start playing — but they 'd never actually let me touch anything !
10	Realizing I could n't hang around on the dole forever waiting for the Tate Gallery to offer me an exhibition , and also that my boyfriend , also on the dole , was not likely to be able to support me , I decided to go for further training .
11	I asked the security guard to order me a taxi . ’
12	( ‘ He wanted more to earn enough money to buy me a present , ’ she said . )
13	Mother Francis would n't have the money to buy me a new frock . ’
14	We had had our school trial in the concrete playground and I had made the team ; so here I was , complete with black Curtis plimsolls ( I had had to ask my Mum to buy me a pair ) and white ‘ Alf Ramsey ’ shorts .
15	So I forced my Mum to buy me a guitar — it was just a crappy acoustic , with the strings about an inch away from the frets . ’
16	‘ Her business to find me a pretty and agreeable companion , that 's what she said . ’
17	A little joke to give me a shock .
18	One or two of my friends made it their business to send me the cutting from the Paternoster Review .
19	I 'll get your sentry room to call me a taxi . ’
20	Shall I ask daddy to get me a label for my .
21	The Bomb Circle , my dad 's leg and his stick , his reluctance to get me a motorbike perhaps , the candles in the skull , the legions of dead mice and hamsters — they 're all the fault of Agnes , my father 's second wife and my mother .
22	He opened the lid to show me a batch of dirty , dog-eared cards inside .
23	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 .
24	Yeah , tell your Mum to give me the twelve pence , er , er the two P cos erm it was n't , it was n't worth last night .
25	I 'm just rubbing it out a little bit to give me a bit more space
26	‘ I hope and pray that the decision to give me the Nobel Peace Prize will encourage all those who pursue the cause of peace to do so in a renewed spirit of optimism and strength . ’
27	‘ I came to see if there was anything in the apartment to give me a lead on who killed Mahoney , ’ I said .
28	It was a clear night , but the radar was a mass of echoes and I asked the Belgian contact to give me an estimated course and speed of our quarry , and as a result of this we were able to pick it up .
29	I ask him every day to get me a newspaper , but it 's one of those things where he sticks his heels in .
30	‘ For de Raimes , for believing that bitch at Gloucester even for a minute , for losing my damnable temper and not giving you a chance to tell me the truth . ’