Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] i the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Expressing his pleasure at working with TAG , said , ‘ My experience over the last 20 years has given me the scientific and technical background which the modern catering industry requires . |
| 2 | I recently helped one of the Costain girls on some research and she has sent me the final document , which I suspect will one day be of invaluable professional use , so it was nice she remembered . |
| 3 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 4 | As we 're roping up , who should arrive to tie on but the lad who 'd joined me the previous day . |
| 5 | She came to see me the first night I was home , and we sat on the verandah , rather tongue-tied after such a long time , saying stupid things like : " Did you have a good trip ? " |
| 6 | He came to see me the other evening . |
| 7 | ‘ Are you going to give me the macho caveman act ? |
| 8 | There were three words in the do n't ring yet there were three words in the title I 'll give you two you have got to give me the last one . |
| 9 | We only have an A4 scanner but if somebody would like to send me the relevant pages from the Torygraph I will have a go , the address is coming up at the end of the progrmme . |
| 10 | ( 63 ) Two months ago , I should have scouted as mad or drunk the man who had dared tell me the like . |
| 11 | They could be paraphrased by : ( 63 – ) If anyone had dared tell me the like two months ago , I would have scouted him as mad or drunk . |
| 12 | He then accepted this and he told me he was going to pay me the other £2,500 in Turkey in Turkish money . ’ |
| 13 | Neither could I conceal that although I wrote to my parents once a week ( a school rule ) they scarcely ever wrote to me , and failed to send me the necessary supplies of toothpaste , stockings , etc. , so that I was always having to borrow from other girls ( strictly against the rules ) and getting into trouble as a result . |
| 14 | Yes I I was erm the additional information that was available to me at this time , er Sergeant the er having left me the previous night er had actually , had gone to the premises erm , gone to the flats erm and had er put himself in the area of the flat and was able to tell me that he had heard voices , two male voices coming from within the flat . |
| 15 | I usually stand at the shallow end after she 's finished teaching me the floating bit , and watch her have her swim . |
| 16 | wardens and whatever , we do n't take the double yellow lines half seriously enough , erm and I think parking generally is , is something we 're very bad at and I 'm an occasional sinner in this respect too , but it , it did strike me the other day , erm paying a fifteen pound fine for parking on a single yellow line on a Sunday afternoon but I had n't noticed a sign that said I should n't , erm paying that fifteen pound fine in other words not having paid the six pound instant fine , I remember thinking that , really there 's , there was no way of talking back , and I had in fact attempted an explanation as to why I 'd done it , and explained the reasons why I thought this really was very overlookable on the side of the law , erm I do n't suppose they paid much attention to it , I do n't imagine giving it a moment 's thought at all . |
| 17 | Thanks very much Mark , you 've given me the hardest part . |
| 18 | They 've given me the main facts . |
| 19 | Now you 've given me the same answer for two different inputs , but that 's okay . |
| 20 | I had someone come to see me the other week from the R S P C A because they said this cat was held forty foot in the air |
| 21 | With horror I suddenly recognized one of them — it was the man in our village pub who had given me the two pound notes ! and strangely enough , during the journey I heard the prisoners talking about it . |
| 22 | But I was not sure that she had told me the whole truth . |
| 23 | And my elder brother , he had told me the same thing — ‘ Babi , you are not listening to us so we are not responsible for anything . ’ |
| 24 | In preparing my speech I recalled ( as the reader also may ) the occasion during my first watch in Tartar when the first lieutenant had shown me the various instruments on the bridge , and that when I asked why one had a canvas cover , he had said , ‘ Oh , that 's the Mountbatten station-keeping gear , and we keep it covered because the captain finds it quite useless . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ An my experience at Imperial had shown me the growing need in this country to find free-standing sites on the outskirts of towns , away from parking problems and inner city violence . |
| 26 | At this juncture , I realized that I had driven close to the point where the boat had landed me the previous evening . |
| 27 | But it was typical of Pound 's kindness , even to a potential enemy or rival , that he should have so persisted in trying to give me the right contacts . |
| 28 | I replied that of course such decisions were entirely his prerogative , then I fell into a musing mood and sought to recall something Rosa had asked me the previous week about English social customs . |
| 29 | On the album I make the comment that somebody had asked me the same question and I said , ‘ Yep , my left hand 's doing good , right hand 's doing alright , my mind 's as sharp as a tack . |
| 30 | ‘ If I 've got my pants on in the second scene , I think they 've sent me the wrong script , ’ he says . |