Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Any chance of anyone passing me the odd anabolic steroid , this week ? |
| 2 | I have a Roland U220 which would give me the sounds I want although I know it would not give me the great note-sequence loops which McLaughlin uses so beautifully . |
| 3 | Ma'am , sir I should say , erm Mr makes certain comments about there are doubts about whether this scheme will go forward , we have been in contact with Department of Transport , again to try and give you the correct factual position . |
| 4 | Even if you 're as good as a master they still wo n't give you the top black |
| 5 | He shows me the clean pink palms of his hands , and he raises his bushy eyebrows . |
| 6 | Faye whispered , her eyes misting and her throat going froggy as she showed them the tiny black-haired bundle cradled tightly in her arms . |
| 7 | the only reason that police get away with drink driving is cos half the buggers are Masons and they give them the old funny hand shake and its oh on your way sir |
| 8 | He showed me the big green gabled home of Ireland 's Minister of Finance . |
| 9 | By four months , Madame de Chavigny , when you 'll start to feel it stir — and then maybe give you the odd hefty kick-the foetus is — ‘ |
| 10 | Her view of the driver of the Renault , albeit only a back view , had shown her the thick dark hair of someone obviously quite young . |
| 11 | To help Cinderella catch midnight , give her the Swiss International Watch Company 's £150,000 Grande Complication timepiece . |
| 12 | Beneath the shirt , the mirror showed her the small fine flowers of her delicate bra could be seen . |
| 13 | Shepherd poured the T'ang a fingernail 's measure of the dark liquid and handed him the ancient bowled glass . |
| 14 | When Anthony arrived spent and ill-looking from the hospital later that evening , Julia handed him the thin yellow sheet and was relieved to see a lightening in his dark grey eyes and a faint smile on his thin lips . |
| 15 | He handed her the double bladed paddle as she continued , ‘ I shall go down as far as Browns Mill , so could you possibly pick me up here about five thirty ? ’ |
| 16 | She fumbled for a handkerchief without success — and Elizabeth Mowbray handed her the capacious lace-edged one she wore for decoration at her girdle . |
| 17 | Early in their walk she had handed him the usual tenpenny piece , and now she heard a faint tinkle and watched while he stuck his candle in the socket , and reached for the matches in their brass holder . |
| 18 | As we were turning to follow his directions , he drew up his cuff and showed us the blue tattooed cross that all Copts have on the inside of their wrists . |
| 19 | ‘ In the psychic realm it means that we are free to follow any set of images and symbols which give us the right mental feedback — and the State encourages us . |
| 20 | ‘ My reward will be to give them the final yellow jersey in Manchester . ’ |
| 21 | So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know . |
| 22 | He and Mallachy , between themselves , called her the Wee Green Patriot , but steered clear of all argument on the subject . |
| 23 | Real ale — or cask-conditioned beer , to give it the correct technical name — is the champagne of the beer world , a beer that reaches maturity inside its container in the pub cellar . |
| 24 | Only a handful of people , it had been established , had been near enough to the leading car of the funicular to have been able to give it the fatal extra push that had sent Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan tumbling down the steep hillside . |
| 25 | In Yugoslavia 's biggest postwar strike , nearly 700,000 workers in Serbia 's textile , leather and metallurgical industries stopped work on April 16 to demand that the Serbian government pay them the guaranteed minimum monthly wage , backdated to January , and that it abolish new taxes introduced at the end of 1990 . |
| 26 | ‘ I know it sounds bizarre to say that when someone has made an awful lot of money and had a lot of fame and adulation , but you can wreck their minds , you can wreck their self-ego and esteem by giving them the whole wrong picture of themselves by pretending they are good at one thing when they are not and boosting other things . |
| 27 | I also suggested that they off Ollie his own warm secure bed downstairs , or at least out of the bedroom , to avoid giving him the ultimate rank-defining liberty of sleeping with the real top dogs . |
| 28 | Harvey said , ‘ Yes , ’ very briefly , and handed it over before giving him the little 6.35-mm . |
| 29 | ‘ I think you could call it the metaphorical baked meats for our secretary . |
| 30 | This effect , which is strongest over the frontal lobes , was first observed in 1964 by Grey Walter , who called it the Contingent Negative Variation . |