Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She only came to fetch wood for Mum or bring us our cocoa . |
| 2 | The problem with keeping the original ( e.g. as a photocopy , with sections highlighted ) is that you have n't really done anything with it yet : you have n't assimilated it or made it your own , in the sense of fitting it with ( and so allowing it to affect ) your existing thoughts and knowledge . |
| 3 | He had never made a secret of what he wanted from her , and pretending he enjoyed her company , pretending he wanted to laugh with her or show her his favourite places in Rome , was n't part of it . |
| 4 | Even when she was talking to you or giving you your change , you could feel her smile going somewhere over your shoulder as she took in the whole room behind you . |
| 5 | And of course such a perception produces its own reaction , in the emphasis on common sense and experience , in people who boast of having attended the University of Life , or feel it their duty to sort out young graduates when they enter their first job , or even in anti-intellectual or irrationalist currents in higher education itself ( Shils 1984 ) . |
| 6 | Nothing could have quicker distanced him from the Pommie chairman or won him their attention so soon . |
| 7 | With the outbreak of war the ILP put itself in opposition to the trade-union leaders by its refusal to support the war and by its criticism of those Labour Party members who either joined the government after 1916 or gave it their loyal parliamentary support . |
| 8 | Temple had neither converted him , nor given him his vocation . |
| 9 | He complained and when the defendants were made aware of his complaint they made sure he received 20 free films and reimbursed him his postage and packing . |
| 10 | He sat beside me and lent me his shoulder as a back-rest . |
| 11 | He already had my passport in front of him , and he opened it and asked me my name , age , parents ’ names and a lot of other routine questions . |
| 12 | He went up to the driver of the van and asked him his business . |
| 13 | I thought I would catch the child and make him my friend before he was old enough to be frightened of my terrible face . |
| 14 | And make them your most accessible . |
| 15 | He commands them , ‘ Go , then , to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Go , then , to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples … ’ |
| 17 | Shall I do that , Lissa — shall I hunt out your secrets and make them my own ? ’ |
| 18 | Nothing wrong with her sister , go and make her your wife . |
| 19 | She had written to him while he was in prison but had received no reply , but then she had excused him in her own mind , telling herself he would be free soon , then he would come home to her and make her his bride . |
| 20 | Moreover , they interpret a piece of music and make it their own , even if they have never encountered the given orchestra until a few hours before . |
| 21 | Each age and each individual has to make the imaginative effort to appropriate the religious tradition and make it their own , as Julian did . |
| 22 | This policy is most politick , for many leave the island daily in their rough-hewn barques for other parts and thus confirm our powers here : the world is open to them , they can wander abroad at liberty until they discover those skills of civility to settle a land and make it their own . |
| 23 | You want to be very careful er , Mr Chairman , how we put out erm , information , I mean , let's face it , you know , you start sort of raising a lot of hairs if you 're not careful and if , if , even if it 's totally irrelevant people will latch on to a particular com comment and make it their own . |
| 24 | Today , she was going to do some heavy-duty cleaning — stamp her seal on the place , and make it her own . |
| 25 | How many fifty-somethings would search out an almost incomprehensible hit single by a teenybop dance-pop group and make it his own ? |
| 26 | interior and make it my own ? |
| 27 | For those who do not know what I am on about , why not pick up a Birthday Scheme Leaflet and make it your resolution to support the Medical Work of the BMS in the New Year . |
| 28 | John Standish , a royal chaplain , concluded his Assize sermon at Hertford in March 1683 by imploring his auditors to " Govern according to Law ; and make it your care , that our wholesome Laws be vigorously and impartially executed " . |
| 29 | Predictive typing is of particular value with disabled learners ; the software guesses the word or phrase you are currently typing , and offers you its guesses to save you key presses . |
| 30 | It would swiftly encounter , as it has done before , a wages explosion , and lose us our edge over Europe on labour costs . |