Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want our marriage to have any chance of success you 'd better give her the sack first thing on Monday morning ! ’ |
| 2 | See you 've got your purse in your bag you better give me the money |
| 3 | ( Mutengene is a harder word than Sasse so I had better give you the pronunciation : Moo-teng-genay . ) |
| 4 | But when he sent his ambassador to see if she were indeed as beautiful as men told , the Venetians would only show him the princess at nightfall , in an unlighted room . |
| 5 | Also it would be very wasteful of pump power and , depending where the transfer pipe entered the second filter/filter chamber , would not necessarily give you the oxygenation you wish for . |
| 6 | " You had better show me the sites , " Matthew said , " and I 'll see what I can suggest . " |
| 7 | But as he had , I could only give him the answer he needed , without knowing for sure whether it was true or not . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'd better leave me the matches , then . ’ |
| 9 | We seem to have a breed of unadventurous promoters who can only offer us the likes of Grooverider and Carl Cox , making it difficult for talented newcomers to get the break they deserve . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Though he did not know it the San Antonio had turned tail and was even now on her way back to Spain , ‘ bearing a cargo of falsehood against Magellan ’ . |
| 12 | and it 's on minimum premiums , you 've got a little bit of a discount there , but again , bearing in mind nine pound sixty might not buy them the cover they want . |
| 13 | This set will finally give us the numbers of vibrations of each symmetry species . |
| 14 | Their nimble dexterity even made them preferred in the manufacture of buttons and in lacquering and japanning , although it did not bring them the wages of skilled male artisans . |
| 15 | Yet this did not bring us the surrender we hoped for . |
| 16 | Even though the story reverberated through the Highlands , there is no evidence that either Boswell or Johnson knew the tale — had they done so , Boswell might have been less merry with his lubricious reasons as to why the woman would not show them the bedroom . |
| 17 | She said : ‘ Claire did not show me the power of attorney … nor did she tell me that I had been made Michael 's attorney . ’ |
| 18 | Due to the constraints of the Trove system we can not show you the policies as they are actually printed . |
| 19 | If you get stuck , pressing a combination of keys will show you one solution but , will not show you the graphics display that follows , to see that , you must solve the puzzle yourself , and judging by the opening graphics should be pretty good . |
| 20 | Take her to Nicosia , but only if you will not do her the service of remaining here , in this town , at her side . ’ |
| 21 | A tough looker is not necessarily a tough fighter , and we should not do him the favour of allowing his warpaint to add to our problems . |
| 22 | Can you not do it the coffee break ? |
| 23 | If the surveyor states that the property is most definitely not worth the agreed price and the building society will not advance you the money you need , you have three choices : abandon the property and look again , or go to another building society and hope that another surveyor will not make the same judgement , or go to your vendor 's estate agent , explain the situation and hope that the vendor will drop the price . |
| 24 | But he did not give her the opportunity . |
| 25 | Nevertheless she said , ‘ Why not give her the benefit of the doubt ? |
| 26 | I for one will not give her the satisfaction of even seeming to care . |
| 27 | The council tax will treat widows unfairly in the same way , because it does not give them the discount that they deserve . |
| 28 | In these stories the young characters learn that their greater physical power does not give them the right to treat the little people as playthings or inferiors . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ The supporters know I have always spoken to them in honesty and when I could not give them the truth I have kept my mouth shut . |
| 30 | She would not give them the satisfaction of seeing her beg . |