Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father who was a er a clergyman taught me the piano from an early age and er I first became interested in the organ purely for money purposes in fact , when at the age of fifteen a local methodist church in Durham where we lived at the time said er , We need an organist . |
| 2 | But you 've taught me the difference between art and life . |
| 3 | Cooke says : ‘ Egg pasta is certainly preferred by many chefs not only because of its excellent colour and flavour , but because it offers them the possibility of upgrading their pasta menus , thus increasing their profits . ’ |
| 4 | The prison governor tells them they are about to be shot and offers them the choice of dying like men or wearing blindfolds . |
| 5 | They serve as a valuable corrective to approaches of the kind that a behaviourist view might encourage , approaches which impose conformity on learners , reduce the scope of their participation as persons , and deny them the exercise of individual initiative in the learning process . |
| 6 | WHATEVER the home unions committee may care to think , the team who performed with great distinction in Paris are Lions to a man — and if the powers-that-be will not grant them the honour with a large ‘ L ’ they can hardly begrudge it with a small one . |
| 7 | but I said because you bring some guy , you 'll lend me the room on a Sunday afternoons , up and down |
| 8 | Worse still , the new Leeds are as sly and provocative as Don Revie 's sides , with none of the skills which made them the Liverpool of the Seventies . |
| 9 | The tiny Regency houses had no doubt been listed to spare them the attentions of developers ; from the state of the paving stones and the grass-studded cracks in the roadway , it seemed that the town council too had passed them by . |
| 10 | This will spare them the necessity of checking to find out why you did n't acknowledge the call . |
| 11 | The models he works with may be shot by all the big name photographers , but it is the pictures that they do with Steven Meisel that will make them the icons of our times . |
| 12 | But does this make them the future of rock ‘ n ’ roll ? |
| 13 | Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan . |
| 14 | I 'm just sorry the whole thing happened and the man who must be embarrassed about this most of all is sponsor Matt Laverty who lent me the bike on Thursday night at practice . ’ |
| 15 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 16 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 17 | Ward stirred and asked me the time in a voice heavy with sleep . |
| 18 | ‘ Bring me the head of the crocodile , Roger . ’ |
| 19 | And that led me the think of phetam , and to wonder again if it really did confer super-powers . |
| 20 | She envied them the sense of occasion and togetherness that they had . |
| 21 | You 've assigned me the role of heartless villain financier , obsessed with money , wealth , and luxury . |
| 22 | Rounds of 67 , 69 , 66 and 65 made me the winner of the Lancome Trophy and a very happy man . |
| 23 | ‘ What are you grinning at , Cambridge ? ’ he demanded — he 'd given me the nickname after some reference I made to my own past ; it was an affectionate pan of coals for my head — ‘ It 's perfectly true . |
| 24 | I think that if she had n't known us ; that I was a groom and Copper was pretty sensible , she would n't have given me the choice of trying to save him , especially as he was seventeen years old . |
| 25 | He had given me the runaround in his sleep . |
| 26 | Since the advent of a car-ferry system connecting Denmark , Norway , Shetland , Faroe and Iceland , it has become easier for me to take a vehicle over and , because the ferry terminus in Iceland is in one of the eastern fiords called Seyðisfjördur — see data capture sheet , this has given me the opportunity of exploring the north and east coast of Iceland in greater detail . |
| 27 | A woman I know has given me the name of a midwife who will come and otherwise I shall have to engage a nurse for the shortest time possible since I can not be without assistance when my time comes . |
| 28 | There 's another in the keep would have done just as well , but seal or no seal , they 'd have wanted a better tale than I could think of before they 'd have given me the keys of the keep . |
| 29 | Talking to Pierre as we fished off the coast of Brittany had first given me the idea of working on a trawler . |
| 30 | Flaubert was delighted with the story : ‘ Do you know , Lapierre , you 've just given me the subject of a novel , the counterpart of my Bovary , a Bovary of high society . |