Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ He had to see me this time because I had a clue for him . ’ |
| 2 | Use young stems or leaf stalks ; cut up into short lengths , simmer them little water until tender , then remove the tough outer skin , and simmer again until bright green . |
| 3 | ‘ Could you spare me five minutes before the lectures start ? ’ |
| 4 | He stabbed them many times after they were dead . |
| 5 | Perhaps my Occulobe organ grants me keener micro-eyesight than yours ? |
| 6 | After I had produced talks and features for a year or so , Jack Radford asked me one day if I would like to take charge of a music show . |
| 7 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 8 | Simply to say ‘ I was going to speak to you about a wonderfully deserving and little-known charity but the producers have only given me twenty-two seconds because they 're cutting straight to a sponsored lard-slice in Abergavenny , so I wo n't . ’ |
| 9 | He 's given me three dates when he 'd be delighted to meet us erm Friday the thirtieth of April , four of May or fifth of May , but other dates a as necessary . |
| 10 | The committee would never have given me this show if it was n't for the Machin revival . |
| 11 | ‘ The manager has not given me any indication whether I will play but I am ready and it would be nice if I could . |
| 12 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 13 | ‘ I only charged them fifty pence so we wo n't get rich on that , but it 's probably done our reputation a lot of good . ’ |
| 14 | Nor could he get the Scots and their French allies to the negotiating table ; the French publicly declared for the Scots , and promised them military help if they needed it . |
| 15 | I kept in touch after that , obviously , and continued to badger him and send him new material until I was signed last August . |
| 16 | At the beginning I found it hard work because he did not seem able to concentrate . |
| 17 | ‘ That dopey mare left about five hours ago to find us some transport so we could all go into Ipswich and sign on . |
| 18 | " I told them three days before we can finish repairs , " he told us , " but we can do enough tomorrow to hold us to Banda , if weather is good . " |
| 19 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |
| 20 | ‘ If you are really dropping people anywhere along that coast I would n't give them forty-eight hours before they are signing a statement for the public prosecutor . |
| 21 | The Sandrat did n't give them any resistance as they took her weapons away from her . |
| 22 | Oh the one er who did n't give them enough anaesthetic so they woke up . |
| 23 | It also spoke , however , of ‘ due account of prevailing economic and social conditions ’ — a get-out clause that ministers said would give them free rein while saving the face of parliament . |
| 24 | ‘ No , nor could her father — or so Mandeville told me last night after you had retired . |
| 25 | You 're gon na show me these things before you get Kath to print them are n't you ? |
| 26 | For example , the words ’ made ’ , ’ making ’ and ’ makes ’ are all inflections of the root form ’ make ’ , so there seems little point in assigning them separate indices when their origins ( and hence much of their semantic content ) are shared . |
| 27 | A typical problem raised by practitioners is : ‘ He wo n't give me professional clearance because there are fees outstanding . ’ |
| 28 | His smile deepened as he added , ‘ I have been told that I am a good lover and I can think of nothing in this world that would give me greater pleasure than to teach you the plaisirs d'amour . |
| 29 | Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see Eire not qualify . |
| 30 | Can you give me some idea as to their sexual and marital mores ? |