Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [noun sg] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 149 ) How could he exert authority over them — make them toe the line , as he had to — if he knuckled under … |
| 2 | Oh yah , d' you r'member the time on the Fourth o' June we broke into Tairp and airt all the long eggs and threw up all over pop room and ha ha ha ha ! |
| 3 | ‘ People in England say we slave-drive the Africans ’ , a white Kenyan once told the journalist Richard West , ‘ but , my God , it 's the other way round . |
| 4 | You can come and watch me paint the window frames . ’ |
| 5 | Then I need three strong men , to help me row the boat . ’ |
| 6 | I need volunteers to help me man the phones . |
| 7 | I could n't hold the car on the clutch and I rolled back down the hill , getting very embarrassed , especially when a man had to help me push the car up the hill again ! |
| 8 | I had both radiators removed and transferred to the lorry and told the driver to go to the nearest large town and to contact the best plumber to help me repair the radiators . |
| 9 | So I made an approach , a long low approach and happily there was a bit of a crosswind from the portside , I decided to use this crosswind to help me place the aircraft at the end of my run off the normal line of landing and nearer to the engineering hangar . |
| 10 | I needed a strong man to help me rule the country . |
| 11 | And at night I asked one of the young men who was helping us , one who had come with the carters , to help me load the saint on to the wagon , to go to Ramsey to the aid and succour of our misused house . |
| 12 | I would that you were with us to hear me play the piano which I do every day and Papa declares I make good progress . |
| 13 | Richard Chambers , a fine caver who had helped me photograph the Yordas Cave main chamber , Jeff Clegg and Matt Kirby of the Earby Mines Research Group and myself left the road near Gunnerside Lodge and clanked our way up the old miners ' path along the west side of Gunnerside Gill one damp late September evening . |
| 14 | ‘ Ca n't I drive myself in and meet you somewhere-in the square ? ’ |
| 15 | Antony Sheppard , a fellow enthusiast , persuaded Bernard to let them recondition the engine . |
| 16 | And that gets you admission the firework spectacular at the Great Central Railway and that 's at the Quorn Station this Friday seven thirty . |
| 17 | If I get home at 12.30 I probably wo n't want to go down a club , but I 'll pull a beer out of the fridge , sit down and have a laugh at everybody else making pillocks of themselves , including the prat who calls him self the Hitman . |
| 18 | She said , I know you and you can not sing , I said , that 's nothing , you should hear me play the pianer . ’ |
| 19 | And another thing , I do n't remember letting you outta the house . |
| 20 | Out of a crowd of more than three hundred I noticed Sir Jocelyn Lucas , with whom I had never exchanged a word , making his way determinedly in my direction , and I watched him breast the wave like Captain Webb , twisting and turning . |
| 21 | Built upon mudbanks and made great by maritime dominion during the centuries of its republican independence , it magnificently called it self the Queen of the Adriatic , and each year its rulers ritually married the ocean in a ceremony of sumptuous allegory . |
| 22 | Fat Trask choked with laughter , spattering half-chewed pasta over another man who slapped him upside the head . |
| 23 | ‘ But we all saw him hand the knife over . ’ |
| 24 | but even more content to have me hoe the weeds and ungum the filters for her while she sat half-naked on an ancient natural tube steel chair tipped back on two legs against the natural pulpboard side of her natural module A farmhouse , playing her warped old guitar . |
| 25 | It 's that unspoilt it 'd drive ye roon the bend . |
| 26 | What do you thing the word trilla trill in English means . |
| 27 | When we 've finished we tension the out-haul and put the kitty strap back on . |
| 28 | And it 's not gon na be easy to get him outta the country … . |
| 29 | Where I 'm from , I should n't have to worry about a black cop beating me upside the head when he 's with his white partner , you know , and that happens a lot . ’ |
| 30 | Fortunately for the police complaints department , skins seem to regard this as part of the normal way of life , in the same way they might get a good hiding from their old man to make them toe the line at home . |