Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish I could remember the name of the functionary who pronounced on the news that a union vote had gone 70/30 , at least three to one in favour : I would gladly lend him my copy . |
| 2 | If you had only given me my wife and children : Dayenu ! ’ |
| 3 | But they advertise in Woodworker and offer a complete cutting service to your specification so send them your cutting list and get a quote . |
| 4 | Look , sir , you 'd better give me your passport . ’ |
| 5 | But you 'd better give me your number just in case . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Not only that but , seeming very pleasant and eager to please , I thought , the woman I spoke with then suggested that rather than address my package to Cara in her professional name , just to make sure the package reached you , she 'd better give me your married name . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd better show you your room . ’ |
| 8 | It is easy to be cynical and think that new prospective customers will only give you their favourite trade references ; which are just the ones you do n't want . |
| 9 | ‘ It is no use , ’ I said to him , ‘ I will only give you my name , rank and number . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I will only give you my name , rank and number . ’ |
| 11 | I am very sorry to hear that your husband is dying of cancer and we can at this stage only send you our best wishes and understanding . |
| 12 | So give me your twenty pound eleven now . |
| 13 | No , I , I only give him his food . |
| 14 | In addition , if women were to enter public life and achieve positions of power there they would constitute a personal challenge to the men who had hitherto had it their own way . |
| 15 | However , I feel sure she values her friendship with me enough to play it our way . |
| 16 | It was the same story with the first three but the fourth told me that I would be certain to get a coffin from a firm of suppliers in Birkenhead and was kind enough to give me their telephone number . |
| 17 | And now perhaps you would be good enough to give me your particulars ? ’ |
| 18 | Schobert , Eckardt , Le Grand and Hochbrucker have all brought us their engraved sonatas and presented them to my children . |
| 19 | The effect of living with this knowledge and using this skill raises the consciousness of the insider , perhaps giving him his most effective methodological tool . |
| 20 | The caller would only tell her his name was Klaus . |
| 21 | I can only tell you my philosophy towards this aspect of our off-screen work . |
| 22 | the only works we value enough to call classic are those which , as they demonstrate by surviving , are complex and indeterminate enough to allow us our necessary pluralities . |
| 23 | Ooh he says we can only pay you your travelling expenses . |
| 24 | In an unusual analogy Coleridge described people as " tanks " or " springs " according to the way they borrow ideas from others : " tanks " just take over ideas and store them like water ; " springs " adopt them , producing a stream of water and so making them their own . |
| 25 | He had the art of lighting up the faces of those he met by a single kindly word , and so making them his admirers in a flash . |
| 26 | Lyle 's par four not only gave him his most crucial win since the 1988 US Masters but relegated winless Montgomerie to runner-up for the fourth time this year . |
| 27 | The chap who had been kind enough to get me my pint said , ‘ I was only a young chap at the time but I remember him well . |
| 28 | Maria objected strongly but Noreen had said it would only be for a little while until she went back to school in New York , now that Noreen had money enough to get them their own place . |
| 29 | Here again , because positive proof is not available , I can only offer you my own theories for your consideration . |
| 30 | The sisxth grade at Little Rissington elementary school are getting their report cards … and if that was n't enough to upset them its the end of an era . |