Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also had to shear and dip them every year and friends would come to help . |
| 2 | I with the jack , so I thought well somebody will throw me the thing , you know ? |
| 3 | It is surprising to find that some practices , perhaps believing that the world will always grant them a living , manage their affairs without the elementary assistance of time recording . |
| 4 | WHATEVER the home unions committee may care to think , the team who performed with great distinction in Paris are Lions to a man — and if the powers-that-be will not grant them the honour with a large ‘ L ’ they can hardly begrudge it with a small one . |
| 5 | If I ask Shirley nicely she might lend me a couple . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps you could lend me a servant to guide me back to the Grange ? ’ |
| 7 | So well can you lend me a pound ? |
| 8 | Can you lend me a fiver while our Corrinne comes home ? |
| 9 | Can you lend me a fiver ? |
| 10 | Well I knew someone in and I thought to myself I , perhaps he might lend me a hand ? |
| 11 | ‘ I wish someone would lend me a farm hand , ’ said Dancer 's Interior Designer sulkily . |
| 12 | ‘ Will you lend me the money ? ’ asked Elaine , shame-faced . |
| 13 | but I said because you bring some guy , you 'll lend me the room on a Sunday afternoons , up and down |
| 14 | But why do the other animals , seeing the pigs hoodwink them every time a commandment is altered , still accept their right to lead ? |
| 15 | Normally this might earn me an interview without coffee with my Flight Commander , but I do have an excuse for arriving at work an hour later than usual — Gazelle Flight were night-flying last night . |
| 16 | This will spare them the necessity of checking to find out why you did n't acknowledge the call . |
| 17 | Come on , you 've got lots , masses , you can spare me a bit . |
| 18 | Could you spare me a moment ? ’ |
| 19 | brother can you spare me a dime |
| 20 | I 'm sure you ca n't be keeping her so busy that she ca n't spare me an hour or so . ’ |
| 21 | I was wondering if you could spare me an hour . ’ |
| 22 | The work they 've put in , erm , and obviously , if you give your support to erm , make them a grant , it 's basically a grant for adults . |
| 23 | Hell , everybody I know 's done something like that at some time or another but that does n't make them a murderer ; I think McDunn 's crazy but I ca n't tell him that because , if he 's wrong about that and I 'm wrong about it being something to do with those guys who died in the Lake District a few years ago , then there 's only one suspect left and that 's me . |
| 24 | But a more puritan era of egalitarian austerity could make them a lot shyer — and for some time to come . |
| 25 | ‘ You 'd make them a lot happier if you 'd start singing again , ’ Candy returned , going unerringly for the jugular . |
| 26 | And they 'd come up and wait them but I 'd make them a cup of coffee or a cup of cocoa or something like that , there were n't coffee then cos we could n't afford coffee we used to have cocoa or make them a mug of tea . |
| 27 | The chemical companies are also betting that the Greenhouse Effect will make them a killing . |
| 28 | The models he works with may be shot by all the big name photographers , but it is the pictures that they do with Steven Meisel that will make them the icons of our times . |
| 29 | But does this make them the future of rock ‘ n ’ roll ? |
| 30 | Even if he does make them an offer , it is not certain they would accept it . |