Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To give him his due , after the quip about illegal topless bathing , her rescuer had helpfully hunted round the saloon and found her a large rather battered white canvas jacket to wrap herself in . |
| 2 | Well he do n't borrow them no more then ! |
| 3 | Mike in the audience and he 'll probably give me a rollicking afterwards , cos I have n't prepared anything about this and I suspect I wo n't be able to speak till the red light . |
| 4 | If I say , Well you 'll give me the only ever give me the negative version of the square root , so if I give you sixteen , you give me minus four . |
| 5 | Right , exactly sixty seconds to go , then I 'll bring you the eight o'clock news , then after that , we 'll continue our conversation on the main topics of the morning , according to you . |
| 6 | I 'll do you a mock up of that and see what you |
| 7 | Okay , so tomorrow erm I will do you a mock up for a , a bilingual one |
| 8 | It would do her no good now . |
| 9 | Since then , however , the creating of life peers has lent it a meritocratic rather than an aristocratic character and governments need no longer fear the exercise of its blocking power to the same extent . |
| 10 | I remember picking a Rallye 100ST at Dunkeswell for £12 an hour in the late 1970s , and my flying now costs me a little more than twice that per hour fifteen years later . |
| 11 | i if that 's the way the peasants see the world in so they 're gon na see it the same everywhere . |
| 12 | Not , I 'm not buying you no more then ! |
| 13 | For ladies , we have a luxurious health and beauty salon , where our trained beauty therapists and hairdresser will be happy to give you a professional all over body treatment . |
| 14 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 15 | Because we have to have another door so they giving me a third off . |
| 16 | ‘ Anyway , 'e told me ter get out an' called me a lazy so-an'-so so I stuck one on 'im . |
| 17 | She was lucky she 'd been able to keep it a secret all along . |
| 18 | I grew away from the Church being a clergyman s son , of course , and now that I 've come back to it I find it the same only more so — fewer people and even more cups of tea . ’ |
| 19 | It is neither possible nor desirable to fix any language at one point in time and keep it the same ever afterwards . |
| 20 | A hundred years of county council government seems a strange reason to create a long distance path , but North Yorkshire County Council thought it a good enough excuse . |
| 21 | ‘ My heart misgave me when I saw his livery at Parfois , for Isambard is close and confidential with him , and sure they had some business between them that bodes us no good here in Wales . ’ |
| 22 | Well better make it a four then . |
| 23 | The reasons for the widespread development of the particular form of alphabetic literacy evident in Greece must clearly be sought in the social structure ; Goody and Watt , however , insist that ‘ considerable importance must surely be attributed to the intrinsic advantages of the Greek adaptation of the Semitic alphabet , an adaptation which made it the first comprehensively and exclusively phonetic system tor transcribing human speech ’ ( ibid. pp. 40–1 ) . |
| 24 | Boston ( 1086–1113 ) too is a planted town , its plan related to the curving banks of the River Witham along which came the trade which made it the second most prosperous town after London by 1206 . |
| 25 | The conservative Popular Party ( PP ) increased its share of the vote to 25.2 per cent , and gains by the communist-led United Left ( IU ) made it the third most important political force , holding the balance of power in a number of regional and city governments . |
| 26 | A mile further on is White Scar Cave , the best known , most advertised and heavily patronised in the district and a compulsive halt for coaches and cars ; indeed , the large parking space , the roadside signs and shopping facilities make it a commercial rather than a show cave . |
| 27 | But North West teenagers receive an extra 20p making them the third highest paid in the country . |
| 28 | M. Lévy gave me a third more for the second vase than he had given Jean-Claude for the first one . |
| 29 | I said to them it was placing the team and the ARFU in a terrible situation and I gave them a 5.30 pm deadline otherwise the tour was off . |
| 30 | That makes you a full member , it gives you the right to vote , it gives you the right to stand for public office , it gives you the right even to hold public office . |