Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | for the sea to be judged to be the same colour the painter has to paint it different colours . |
| 3 | I don' want to play you bloody dominoes . |
| 4 | He wants to give me two years , but the board only want to give me one . |
| 5 | Dr Sachmeyer has to give them European mouths . ’ |
| 6 | The writer has to give it these things to make it real for the reader . |
| 7 | The chief priests promised to give him thirty pieces of silver which , according to the Old Testament , was the price of a slave . |
| 8 | ‘ I do not propose to argue with you , I propose to give you sixteen shillings and a halfpenny . |
| 9 | " If you want to do me any favours , " I said , " maybe you could get me reinstated later , when I 'm better . |
| 10 | I want to give you good answers to your questions . ’ |
| 11 | I I 'll need to give you some drops to use in that |
| 12 | He commiserated with Blair over his failure with certain seeds and promised to send him rare plants . |
| 13 | We 're not asking R P G two has to have it both ways if if that idea is er is there at all . |
| 14 | Thus A Very British Coup fails because , according to Pearce ‘ it wants to have it both ways ’ , and instead of ‘ owning up to being fantastic tosh , it tried to be incredibly realistic ’ ( Chris Tookey , The Sunday Telegraph , 26 June 1988 ) . |
| 15 | My right hon. Friends have not committed the Government to any position on tax , but I notice that , as usual , the right hon. Gentleman wants to have it both ways . |
| 16 | He wants to ask you some questions about the murder of a man here last night , ’ one of the men told me . |
| 17 | Charlton boss Lennie Lawrence made a mental note of the raw youngster and tried to sign him two seasons later . |
| 18 | He also has the rather unenviable job of being the go-between between the leadership and us , which means he has to tell us any things which ‘ are not done ’ ( for example that I ill-advisedly introduced Confucius into one of my examples ) , and also has to clear any demands we make with the leadership . |
| 19 | Some of the horror stories that I hear are horrendous , but I want to tell you three issues that I do actually know about . |
| 20 | They , or something like them , are admirable and important and we must strive to make them political realities , but they are not in themselves law and nothing is gained by pretending that they are law . |
| 21 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 22 | ‘ He came to see me several times and even brought Gordon [ Jackson ] along too . |
| 23 | He came to see me some weeks later explaining that he had failed to get a job . |
| 24 | Kenneth rotated his shoulders as he drove , trying to ease the nagging pain in them that too much drink the night before always seemed to give him these days . |
| 25 | Liverpool St Helens , relegated from Division One last year , look destined to make it two drops in two years , as do Third Division Headingley who , racked by internal politics , are contemplating a new life in Division Four North . |
| 26 | THE visit of Cheshire Jets to Crowtree tomorrow sees Dave Elderkin 's men looking to make it three wins out of three against the league 's bottom club . |
| 27 | We got to buy you new shoes again and God Almighty knows where we can find the money . ’ |
| 28 | Fujimori , justifying the air force action , said that the C-130 , one of many used to support US anti-drug operations in the northern Upper Huallaga Valley ( the world 's largest single source of coca ) , carried no markings and failed to respond to radio and visual warnings . |
| 29 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
| 30 | I 'm going to find me some controls to fly this thing . ’ |