Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everyone thinks it a great idea , ’ Mrs Bean said happily . |
| 2 | Everyone writes it a little bit differently , with a personality all his own . |
| 3 | ‘ Will I make you a hot drink ? ’ he suggested . |
| 4 | Someone passed her a fresh joint and she took a deep drag , feeling the smoke burn her throat . |
| 5 | I made myself a nice profit out of it . |
| 6 | A year or two later , I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island . |
| 7 | Then I made him a little tent to sleep in , but for a few weeks I always took my gun to bed with me . |
| 8 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 9 | well any way look , if I made you a thin bit of steel straight across the centre like that |
| 10 | I mean what a good idea you have a week off away from all the kids and then you have another couple days and call them training days . |
| 11 | fair point , its still er , I mean its a considerable number , I mean you can see why the insurance company 's are doing quite well , but your willing to put up with that as well for the , for the good points of a car , for the freedom that er , that cars give you and the safety someone has said , the individual safety as a woman , yes . |
| 12 | I realized what a marvellous actor he was when I saw him in this and only wished that he had n't relied so much on the funny voices and hidden behind the easier way out of doing the characters that he could do so easily — and it was easy for him . |
| 13 | It was only after we had left , and were returning home that I realised what a good feeling it was to have helped someone in pain . |
| 14 | ‘ It was then that I realised what a lovely person he was , ’ says Avril . |
| 15 | WHILE watching the Olympic boxing , I realised what a sensible idea it is for the amateur fighters to wear headguards to protect them from brain injuries . |
| 16 | Sheridan Lorrimore , who was sitting at a table apart from his parents , demanded I bring him a double Scotch at once . |
| 17 | Well I actually rang them up to say , why why are you taking my wages into consideration , I did n't break up this marriage , I met him a long time afterwards an I was told by a C S A agent or clerk or whatever , that my wedding was nonessential spending . |
| 18 | I make you a good lasagne . ’ |
| 19 | Oh I got her a lovely cute little teddy . |
| 20 | I got myself a larger size and even they seemed to be pretty neat . |
| 21 | So , impressed by him , I got myself a bass guitar . |
| 22 | ‘ I got myself a few commissions — did I tell you I was thinking of going freelance ? ’ |
| 23 | I got you a wee ball of your wool for your mittens . |
| 24 | ‘ I got it a little wrong , ’ says Eva . |
| 25 | Having worked on hanging committees , I realise what a difficult task the 14 Academy selection council members have . |
| 26 | I found myself a nice bit of grass with a backrest against a tree trunk and waited for the show to begin . |
| 27 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
| 28 | So I found him a small house called Kirk o'Field , outside Edinburgh . |
| 29 | Actually , I found him a pleasant companion . |
| 30 | I found him a fascinating , knowledgeable and eclectic artist , someone who thinks deeply about his work and is not content simply to record the bare facts of the world in front of him . |