Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , I want you all to try and build me a decent-sized castle , right ? ’ |
| 2 | Does anyone know of a signwriter who could paint me a decent menu board for my catering trailer ? |
| 3 | Because intensive livestock production renders the animals more susceptible to disease most stockmen have developed a degree of veterinary skill which can make them a decisive factor in the profitability of any livestock enterprise . |
| 4 | Because they put 3 passes together 4 years ago does not make them a footballing side and they are only making friends now cos they are an easy touch . |
| 5 | ‘ Grey ’ issues of money occur whenever enterprises that are short of funds to pay their obligations insist that the banks should make them the necessary advances to restore their ‘ liquidity ’ . |
| 6 | But the law reports are a random collection of cases , and the very fact that each of those cases resulted from a dispute which the parties could not settle by agreement and had to take to court may make them an unrepresentative sample of the applications of the procedure . |
| 7 | She 'll make me a good wife , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 8 | Mother would make me a packed lunch ; Dad deliver me to the bus station at St Andrew Square , Edinburgh . |
| 9 | Food and drink would be brought to me every day from all the villages , six hundred people would be my servants , three hundred men would make me a new suit , and six teachers would teach me their language . |
| 10 | But the fact that I 've never been to England before does n't make me a complete bumpkin . |
| 11 | back and they were disgusted so they 've taken them down and gon na make me a complete new set . |
| 12 | Just do n't make me a geriatric case , Doc . ’ |
| 13 | Now , why do n't you make me a nice cup of hot coffee , and we can sit down like two civilised adults and I 'll explain everything ? ’ |
| 14 | I thought he would make me a delightful Uncle Richard . |
| 15 | Being restricted here does not make me a special case , though . |
| 16 | I do n't think it will make me a vegetarian but it might make me think about it . |
| 17 | Plus , of course , he admitted to himself wryly , the fact that the hours and the work do n't make me the ideal boy-friend , let alone husband . |
| 18 | When I asked if they could make me an identical one trimmed with black fur and beading instead , they were horrified but they agreed in the end . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Well now , Barney , ye may think yerself an old man but I do n't think of meself as such ! ’ he exclaimed testily . |
| 20 | Among the delphinium , the snapdragon , the hollyhock and the sweet-pea , on a blanket , by a basket , she will grant me a nostalgic caress — always followed , on Odilo 's part , by hours of snivelling entreaty . |
| 21 | You have hurt me a lot in the past three days , Bob , and I think you will hurt me a great deal more in the days to come . |
| 22 | You must think me a terrible whiner . " |
| 23 | ‘ You will think me a terrible woman . |
| 24 | No , I ca n't do it now not in front of Cathy and that lot , they 'll think me a little slag and I do n't particularly want that image . |
| 25 | Victory would earn them a semi-final place against Surrey or Kent tomorrow . |
| 26 | An American editor deleted a comment from one of her books when a father tells his daughter : ‘ Do n't bother about school because you 're a pretty little thing and will make someone a good wife . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , she 'll make someone a wonderful wife ! ’ screeched Jamie . |
| 28 | She was a sweet , loving person and would make someone a wonderful wife . |
| 29 | Now they would consider me a bad child for ever . |
| 30 | Yeah well I could n't so I had to come over and and buy them a flipping new one ! |