Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has fooled even us with his pleasant talk to the Men all these years . |
| 2 | When the cream has gone fill them with daffodils , set them on a table centre of tawny orange silk with a bordering of asparagus fern . |
| 3 | But you want to say thank you to some people do n't you you said . |
| 4 | Ah magic , look say thank you to Pauline |
| 5 | I for one will be happy to be stopped and searched if it is going to help protect us from terrorist bombs . |
| 6 | But you do n't do you hav wil will have you got to shrink wrap it at all or will it hold will it will it just sit right on the pallets without falling off ? |
| 7 | I think erm we are not going to say thank you to Eileen now because she is not finishing as Synod clerk and that 's a conscious decision . |
| 8 | was going to say check it in the book but I gave you wrong one . |
| 9 | I 'd like to say thank you to WOMAN for the lovely prize I won in the WOMAN '91 competition . |
| 10 | Tivvy ( Mrs Limb ) organised everything so I would like to say thank you to her and to everyone else who helped . |
| 11 | I 'd just like to say thank you to WOMAN ( and my son ) for bringing the outside world to me . |
| 12 | I 'll propose Emily 's report and , and in doing so I 'd like to say thank you to her for her sterling work this year , I think she 's done a terrific job erm and I 'd like to thank her personally for the help she 's given me over the year . |
| 13 | And I would like to say thank you to the people who sit on the budget review sub- committee , a committee which actually I do n't attend as often as I probably ought to , particularly to the labour spokesperson , for the way he 's guided the committee , both from within the chair and at other times , on it 's work this year , to be able to propose a budget which erm , so well fulfils the aims that many of us had when we were elected in May , which were of course , to maintain services , er , to squeeze efficiency out of the sy into the system and squeeze any waste out , and to get our officers working towards zero base budgets . |
| 14 | My wife and family and I were very shocked by what happened and I would just like to say thank you to that man . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd like to say thank you to everyone who sent the lovely cards and get well messages — they cheered me greatly . |
| 16 | I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home . |
| 17 | Dear Sir and Ladies — We would like to say thank you for saving the train and stopping a very bad accident . |
| 18 | Well yeah but they do n't have to like pull you through it as well . |
| 19 | And then I do n't particularly want you to start yet but if you do get time or if you 're just interested and you do n't want to stop and you want to keep going try it with sixty . |
| 20 | Toby and I went to say thank you to Doris and she shouted jocularly after us as we went up the stairs , " When are you two going to get married ? |
| 21 | He , they left the er they 'd gone said leave it in the conservatory , then he went out and and and and er shut his conservatory so they could n't leave it so they asked me to keep it for him . |
| 22 | Her mother had tried to force feed her in the past as her doctor had said that Maria had to gain some weight but Maria had only cried and refused to swallow the solid food . |
| 23 | ‘ Do please change me into a wolf , Mr Bilsiter , ’ said Mrs Hampton during lunch on the day of his arrival . |
| 24 | We had to like tell her about five times so they knew it was n't our room as we like took this guy in it was like books , everything was , there was so much crap on the floor , we had to get through to get to the radiator so that our next door neighbour could try and like stop it from leaking . |
| 25 | ‘ And I hope you 've said thank you to Aunt Louise properly . |
| 26 | Ju just do every term you 've got multiply it by X. |
| 27 | Nor is what ( … like ) ? — as for clausal adjectives — applicable : ( 6 ) what will Ellen shake the keys ? ( 7 ) what does muzak drive them like ? |
| 28 | This is so abrasive that it 'll damn near cut you in two . |
| 29 | This is so abrasive that it 'll damn near cut you in two . |
| 30 | Then one night they all disappeared , 'cos t' farmers an' their wives kep' forgettin' to say thank you by puttin' out cake an' milk for yum . |