Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ABOVE As time went by , more and more people started bringing me injured birds to look after . |
| 2 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
| 3 | The doctors had given me strict orders to keep warm while I was recuperating and there was no heating at all in the house , ’ said Mrs Easby . |
| 4 | It may not apply to anything but I know in the past when she 's given me those things to try erm she 's got a book at home and it 'll say erm particular |
| 5 | In the chip shop we bought some fish out the fryer and put in the top and straight away got them bloody tongs picked it up and poured the bloody grease off it and put it in the bloody bag thought it was terrible . |
| 6 | Since the 1920s women have been free of the burden of high fertility which previously would have given them young children to cope with for more than two decades of their adult life . |
| 7 | We 've had times when we 've written to commercials and given them free tickets to dig ourselves out of a hole and things . |
| 8 | And send me greate crymes to investygate : |
| 9 | Probably you could buy them some stores have them for maybe a week or so . |
| 10 | I 'm going to find me some controls to fly this thing . ’ |
| 11 | The Irish team was lying second to Germany following Friday 's dressage but a fall on cross country by Karen Connelly to incur 60 penalties and a refusal by Sasha Harrison which cost them 20 penalties sent them out of the reckoning . |
| 12 | You had to enter them as foals , and then when you entered them it cost you fifty pounds to enter them , and it cost you fifty pounds for every quarter of that lifetime of that foal . |
| 13 | I now expect you young girls to keep bright and shining . |
| 14 | ‘ How d' you French barmen do it ? |
| 15 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 16 | Havel asked the legislature to grant him broader powers to defuse the constitutional crisis . |
| 17 | Maclean also concentrated on getting the ball past the talented Umar and denying him further chances to hit crisp drives into the nicks and towards difficult angles . |
| 18 | I know , I say that , and the , the only thing is I was upset over the Leah Manning , being taken off the ambulance you see and whether I will get back I 'm hoping I will because erm he said he will let me know before Christmas so I think he will , he came to Leah Manning to visit me any rights to see me about it , so it was good of him really |
| 19 | instead , arranging activities together will help the young person to know that you care and will give them other things to do . |
| 20 | You could give them two minutes to check with their neighbours what they think has happened . |
| 21 | We must give them suitable materials to work with — suitable tools — brushes , paper , paints , etc . |
| 22 | Nevertheless because they are supposed to be men of wide experience and outstanding capability the bishop may from time to time give them particular tasks to do in connection with parish priests . |
| 23 | Mr Ryabov 's defection will give them enough votes to block the two-thirds majority that is needed to change the constitution . |
| 24 | Those friends on the police force who would doubtless fail to remember me these nights had even let me have carbons of a few rap sheets . |
| 25 | Pig iron you know er pig iron was what they had I 've seen them pouring furnaces pouring it onto the pig beds , and you know when I was a kid when we lived in Caldmore from about half past nine at night all across West Bromwich , Wednesbury all over that area , you 'd see the sky light up and it was due to the pouring of er pouring the pig iron . |
| 26 | " I just hope you two girls have got more sense than ever to set a foot out there . " |
| 27 | But we are responding by saying , well , we will give you six weeks to respond when we notify . |
| 28 | Well I can give you some names to start with ! |
| 29 | The national coach will give you some sequences to practise and these usually illustrate some theme that he wants you to work on . |
| 30 | And then you can have your own fractions and you can just play with them and erm I 'll give you some sums to do with your own fractions . |