Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [art] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you lend me a fiver while our Corrinne comes home ? |
| 2 | I ca n't remember which of David 's songs led into that — I shudder to think — but there was another lovely one about a little coat — sell me a coat because I feel cold . |
| 3 | Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use . |
| 4 | ‘ They made me a general 'cause I 'm old . |
| 5 | I was quite prepared to do this journey alone , but my mother , who had given me every encouragement although well aware of the risks I was running , insisted I should take a companion . |
| 6 | She could easily have given me the push after her dad died , and taken on somebody … well , more presentable , like . ’ |
| 7 | There was one little bit of leftover , as you 've given me an opportunity before I depart , and that was that erm we did discuss earlier today , under this heading the possibilities of erm their being sites on the inner edge or between the built up area , or there might become sites between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , I think the implication was they may be in Ryedale . |
| 8 | We 've given them no bother as far the union is concerned — they 've had a free hand and we feel severely let down |
| 9 | Iron Josh had certainly given them no trouble when they had driven into his yard at the back of Old George 's Street and ordered him to climb into the cart . |
| 10 | One because the nation was sort of a people who had seen themselves homeless from these start and God had given them a home so they took special care of sojourners and aliens , and secondly , I think , because they had an enlightened attitude towards debt . |
| 11 | A " customer " is a person with or for whom a firm carries on , or merely intends to carry on , " regulated business " or other business carried on in connection with that regulated business ; the reference to " other business " does not make someone a customer if he would not otherwise be but seems merely to extend the scope of the activities covered by the COB Rules . |
| 12 | Please send me a subscription so I can cancel it in disgust . |
| 13 | The old girl should do her duty and send me a postcard if she can take the time off from her toy-boys . |
| 14 | ‘ Yeah , they send me the stuff before it 's published and I try to proof read it as well as I can . |
| 15 | Send me the details when you send your account . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You can buy me a drink after you land the job . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You can buy me a bodystocking if you like , ’ Bryony went on after a pause . |
| 18 | Half the teachers in the school think say me a half-breed so they do n't too bother me . |
| 19 | Manson saw that somehow and decided to write them a letter because he did n't like being called a creep . |
| 20 | There are many who arrive actually on their 60th birthday , asking us to find them a job because they have no intention of retiring . |
| 21 | Mum said that as a Christian She was not going to write me a note when there was n't anything wrong with me and that I was to remember that we Christians are the light of the world . |
| 22 | Yet at the age of forty he still regarded himself a failure because his mother had projected on to him her anxieties to such an extent that he never felt he matched up to her expectation of him . |
| 23 | Or it might consider itself a success if it can stop providers passing on increases in input prices in full without trying to reduce them by greater efficiency . |
| 24 | Judgement means that the court agrees that your debtor owes you the money as stated on the judgement which is normally your debt , the interest and some costs . |
| 25 | They use it to help prepare themselves for the interview — i.e. to get to know you a bit before you arrive and work out the questions they are going to ask you . |
| 26 | She was about to find herself a seat when she caught sight of him , in conversation with a rather pretty dark young woman , both of them laughing a lot . |
| 27 | ‘ Send him a wire as you leave town . |
| 28 | Jotan 's sister was eighteen , and Burun was constantly aware that he would have to find her a husband before the year was out , otherwise she would be entitled to go with any man she chose . |
| 29 | ‘ So Angy asked him to pass her a knife while she was cooking something . ’ |
| 30 | Cancer cost her an eye when she was a baby and it could reoccur . |