Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his own political outlook was also vital : ‘ Those influences made me want to write a history of the game 's toilers , the hired labourers . |
| 2 | Your wife should contact your tax office , or call at the nearest local office , and ask them to arrange to open a set of records for her . |
| 3 | Neither of them asked to see a girl called Evelyn Harris and Jackie guessed correctly that her letter had gone astray , though he never said as much to her . |
| 4 | ‘ Me struggling to prove a point when all the time you 've decided , made up your mind . ’ |
| 5 | You 're going to help me make to make a birthday cake for Jim remember . |
| 6 | The crisis leading to Lenihan 's dismissal arose in connection with reports that in January 1982 the Fianna Fáil leadership had attempted to persuade President Patrick Hillery by telephone to allow them to try to form a government without calling a general election . |
| 7 | The proposals were rejected , however , by the rebel groups currently controlling substantial areas of the country [ see pp. 37239-40 for military setbacks for Mengistu 's forces in February ] , on the grounds that they contained nothing designed to promote a peace settlement , but rather sought to bolster the regime 's capacity to fight the war . |
| 8 | The passage will remind some readers of Chomsky 's palmier days , in linguistics rather than AI , when he would begin arguments with ‘ Obviously , everyone has internalized a grammar … ’ |
| 9 | Law-making , and law-changing , being a public responsibility to which everyone has to give a lot of time . |
| 10 | After another half a minute , the power is passed to the third person and so on until everyone has had a turn at passing the power . |
| 11 | The game continues until everyone has had a turn . |
| 12 | Everyone has had a chance to air their views about what should be done with young offenders — everyone , that is , except the young people themselves . |
| 13 | ‘ Everything in my life , every little manhole , has been opened up and everyone has had a sniff . ’ |
| 14 | Well I 'll be , I 'm not going to go into it , that 's a close on itself , just like the first one that I , everyone has got a sequence |
| 15 | And everyone has to have an answer , do n't they ? |
| 16 | Everyone needs to earn a living , and when I went to New York , I was glad that I could earn mine by my playing . |
| 17 | Someone close to me has had a cataract operation in both eyes . |
| 18 | me want to do a da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da |
| 19 | ‘ He just asked how you were , made me promise to keep an eye on you , then rang off , ’ she said , frowning . |
| 20 | None of them has made a hash of things like the British government . |
| 21 | For example , if there are several quite unrelated species of unpalatable butterflies living in one particular region and one of them has evolved a warning pattern of black , yellow and red markings , it will pay the others to follow suit because they will then all share the ‘ training risks ’ associated with novice predators . |
| 22 | Not one of them has won a card to play on the Volvo Tour . |
| 23 | And one of them has had a day off . |
| 24 | Any chance one or other of them has had an attack of conscience and decided to pay it back ? ’ |
| 25 | The eleven participating artists , each of whom has contributed a screenprint , are drawn from the ranks of the city 's exciting younger generation and include Angela Bulloch , Damien Hirst , Langlands & Bell , Michael Landy , Marc Quinn and Rachel Whiteread . |
| 26 | No-one wants to have a glare lamp in their face at closing time nor to have a doorman shouting ‘ Drink up ’ in the middle of an act even if it did get a laugh . |
| 27 | Lisa 's letter inspired me to try to write a verse on the subject ( not very good , but here it is ) |
| 28 | But they 've done a tabloid internally and they 've asked me to come to take a look at it . |
| 29 | I asked to see a breakdown of the price quoted to me and found that I was being charged four times more than the normal retail price for curtain tape and hooks and was quoted for more material than I needed . |
| 30 | Why on earth would I want to do a thing like that ? ’ |