Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] i the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not on at all for a brother-in-law to treat me the way you treat me . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He drew out a sturdy transparent plastic inner bag and held it up to the light to show me the contents . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | One or two of my friends made it their business to send me the cutting from the Paternoster Review . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Luckily , I had that stubborn streak to give me the determination to do it . |
| 10 | ‘ Kenny called me the other week to congratulate me the day after I broke Roger Hunt 's club scoring record at Manchester United . |
| 11 | ‘ Stapleton told me that he could not allow any other man to give me the money for my divorce , ’ Mrs Lyons said . |
| 12 | I challenge Councillor to bring me the evidence saying otherwise . |
| 13 | I challenge Councillor to bring me the evidence saying otherwise . |
| 14 | ‘ Or worse still , if he was going to have her killed , it would be a nice tidy thing to give me the same treatment , and Joel too . |
| 15 | Deputed to get his own disguise , he went off fuming to a wig shop : ‘ And the lady started to go through all kinds of salesmanship to sell me the wig and if I wanted to swim , I did n't want to swim , and I 'm sitting there knowing that this meeting is going to start very soon and I can not — lady , let's get on with it , I do n't give a damn , just give me a wig . ’ |
| 16 | B : Well , the milkman has come All that we can reasonably expect a semantic theory to tell us about this minimal exchange is that there is at least one reading that we might paraphrase as follows : ( 2 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time ? |
| 17 | B : [ pragmatically interpreted particle ] the milkman came at some time prior to the time of speaking Yet it is clear to native speakers that what would ordinarily be communicated by such an exchange involves considerably more , along the lines of the italicized material in ( 3 ) : ( 3 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time of the present moment , as standardly indicated on a watch , and if so please do so tell me B : No I do n't know the exact time of the present moment , but I can provide some information from which you may be able to deduce the approximate time , namely the milkman has come ( see R. Lakoff , 1973a ; Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 172ff for a discussion of such examples ) . |
| 18 | I had to ask Mum to lend me the money — it was the most humiliating moment of my life . |
| 19 | Thanks to the wonderful invention of fax machines , which enable my office to send me the proofs and layouts to read and check , I was able to slip away to Forest Mere Health Hydro for six days . |