Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when I can understand all they are saying , they give me little opportunity to reply , so anxious are they to keep up the headlong momentum of their own speech ; then they complain that I say nothing ! |
| 2 | It gives me little pleasure to agree with him , but I do so . |
| 3 | The Principal offered me complete freedom to visit and photograph any part of the complex . |
| 4 | Using the structured eavesdropping technique allowed me complete freedom to sit and observe groups . |
| 5 | It gave me strange things to think of when I found myself looking at my own boy 's face in a picture painted three hundred years ago ! |
| 6 | Jesus said just before he was living his disciples , his followers , you and me , he said you shall receive power after the holy spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses unto me yes we witness by our life but there 's a danger in making that a cop out , because one other requirement of a witness is that they talk , they 've got ta say what they know , these four men were good witnesses , they went back and they told the city what they had found , and there 's placed upon you and me that responsibility to go back and to tell what we 've found , this is a day of good tidings , we do wrong to keep silent . |
| 7 | Her hyperactivity and restlessness were taken up in the constant roaming , first about the churches in her own neighbourhood , then to religious sites in England , then on pilgrimage in Europe , all of them respectable things to do . |
| 8 | The other week it cost me fifty quid to go to the , to get it tuned you know ? |
| 9 | An oilman offered me fifty petrodollars to blow him in the lift . " |
| 10 | if they just bring one , I shall say well I 've got choice then to say well is this this week 's or last week 's , now I do n't want to give them that opportunity to say well she 's worrying about one week 's wages , I mean Jan could love that and that 's given him chance to bring er , whereas if it pops through the door , or he comes |
| 11 | She had not even phoned them that morning to explain her absence . |
| 12 | ‘ We also told them that failure to act would help swell the ranks of paramilitary organisations . |
| 13 | It 's a high-risk enterprise for us to , to pontificate about local radio , particularly as we have three as it were local radio representatives here , and we shall give them ample opportunity to confirm or deny the sort of things we 're saying . |
| 14 | Instead of going home to forget he took BR to court , having given them ample opportunity to avoid proceedings , and won . |
| 15 | The Watch had ensured this by giving them ample time to escape via the back door , a neat compromise between caution and justice that benefited all parties . |
| 16 | Give me eight hours to get ready and you 're on . ’ |
| 17 | So saying , when my wife Catherine died of cancer , Anthea sent me persistent invitations to spend a few days at her cottage , or even just come for a meal . |
| 18 | I had to stand in front of the whole school which gave me ample opportunity to observe the envy on some girls ' faces because knitting for the troops was a popular pastime then . |
| 19 | As a gift to the family , Wimpey Homes has given them some furniture to help make their new house feel more like home . |
| 20 | The Pilot Survey showed some monitoring , further standardisation of the equipment was essential , mainly though , I 'm going to make sure all schools have got the same pipes and connector and I 'm going to give them some solutions to test because there was a bit of variation between schools , and there will be variation geographically , so I want to be able to have a measure of any error that will be involved as well . |
| 21 | No my philosophy with customer relations has always been that you do n't give somebody a refund , you give them some tickets to fly again so it 's keeps them flying |
| 22 | could speak to them and say erm give them some encouragement to go and have a look and see if there 's any hostels or something . |
| 23 | When I first acquired a cube , Conway and Roger Penrose , from Oxford University , had already solved theirs and remarked that it took them some time to realise the power of conjugation . |
| 24 | This group has long been noted for its breadth of vision but nevertheless it took them some time to realise the unique advantages of the photosynthetic ‘ mechanisms ’ in plants and thereby to derive what may be an original approach to the problem . |
| 25 | But with any luck it will take them some time to realise that we know how to play it better than they do . ’ |
| 26 | It had left them some time to take stock of their lives . |
| 27 | ‘ In real life it would take them some time to get this boat ready to go to sea . |
| 28 | It might take them some time to find out about Laura , because the interesting part of the story took place some years earlier . |
| 29 | The arrival of the French colonizers a few decades later had merely given them another chance to demonstrate their indomitable spirit . |
| 30 | They tormented her enough on the grounds of her pale skin , her thin body and her grandmother 's pretensions to gentility and the shoes only gave them another cause to tease . |