Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] the [noun sg] " 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 But as he had , I could only give him the answer he needed , without knowing for sure whether it was true or not .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Yet this did not bring us the surrender we hoped for .
10 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 .
11 She said : ‘ Claire did not show me the power of attorney … nor did she tell me that I had been made Michael 's attorney . ’
12 Take her to Nicosia , but only if you will not do her the service of remaining here , in this town , at her side . ’
13 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 .
14 Can you not do it the coffee break ?
15 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 .
16 But he did not give her the opportunity .
17 Nevertheless she said , ‘ Why not give her the benefit of the doubt ?
18 I for one will not give her the satisfaction of even seeming to care .
19 The council tax will treat widows unfairly in the same way , because it does not give them the discount that they deserve .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 She would not give them the satisfaction of seeing her beg .
23 In any case , she thought , I 'll not give him the opportunity to try .
24 I told the hon. Gentleman that I could not give him the information for which he asked until October , when the 1991 population figures would become available .
25 When Michel Rocard was replaced by Edith Cresson on 15 May 1991 , his official letter of resignation made it clear that President Mitterrand had asked him to resign , even though the constitution does not give him the right ( the President is responsible for ‘ nominating ’ the Prime Minister and for approving the Cabinet , but not for dismissing him ) .
26 She would not give him the satisfaction .
27 She would not give him the satisfaction .
28 Perry offers to buy me a drink , but I will not give him the satisfaction .
29 An order for specific performance is one which requires the seller actually to deliver the goods and does not give him the option of paying damages instead .
30 And since she shared Humber 's and my attitude to our job , she did not give me the kind of pep-talk Aline would have come up with in these circumstances .
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