Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are , however , clear attempts to make us giggle , like when the Swamp Thing ( Dick Durock ) conceives a passion for Heather Locklear 's leading lady but tells her that he ca n't give her the love she wants because he 's a plant . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There is not enough space in this chapter to do them justice and standing orders vary from one committee to another . |
| 4 | President , with a very heavy heart and bitter disappointment for all our people out there , who are depending on the Social Chapter to give them dignity , safety and a reasonable standar standard of living , I reluctantly withdraw this motion , but I will say this , we live to fight another day . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know why you do n't get old Crumwallis to make you head of the boarding section , ’ said Onyx , dumping the baby down in its playpen and ignoring its grizzles of discontent . |
| 6 | Someone else came into the room and sat down on a plain wooden chair to watch him struggle . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For example , a photocopier which would only be bought by office managers and which would need fairly detailed copy to do it justice would be a waste of money to advertise on TV because the number of office managers in your audience is so tiny , and TV is not the right place to put a lot of product detail because time is so limited . |
| 9 | They were sleeping tablets to help me sleep . |
| 10 | I have to use sleeping tablets to help me sleep at night because I 'm dreading getting up in the morning in case anything 's happened further . |
| 11 | There 's a main board , with various part-time notables to give it respectability , and an Executive Committee of Directors , consisting of Ingard and one or two of his pals , who actually deal with what goes on . |
| 12 | Most youths and even small boys wore a strip of hide around their wrists or ankles : this had been given them with appropriate blessing to bring them success when they became warriors . |
| 13 | It was a wonder she had n't paid the part time gardener extra cash to do it foe her ; perhaps the money in the joint account had run out . |
| 14 | I mean if you think about it it was just an impossible task to do it sort of fairly or so that everybody felt all right about it and also that you know if it 's your own children you 're having to choose presents you know the who whole idea was sort of very very difficult really . |
| 15 | This one had understood that Aurae Phiala was dead , and immense , needing no meretricious human yardstick to give it proportion . |
| 16 | Erm it 's about three quid to send them Parcel Post . |
| 17 | To have included the yield , crazing and fracture of polymers would have required another three chapters to do them justice . |
| 18 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
| 19 | I used many things to make them cane and dowling and metal coathangers and aluminium tent-poles , and paper and plastic sheeting and dustbin bags and sheets and string and nylon rope and twine and all sorts of little straps and buckles and bits of cord and elastic bands and strips of wire and pins and screws and nails and pieces cannibalised from model yachts and various toys . |
| 20 | My mother instructed her deferential staff to serve us tea on the croquet lawn . |
| 21 | What a stupid thing to do you idiot James . |
| 22 | Every other paper one picked up had something either about his ancestors or his own latest piece of rabble-rousing — It was a stroke of genius by the Prime Minister to make him Minister of Fine Arts , where he could shout his head off and do little real harm . |
| 23 | My son is a dying junkie , but he does n't want to die alone so he 's encouraging Robin-Anne to keep him company and now she 's become addicted to cocaine and it wo n't be very long before she 's smoking crack and trying speedballs . ’ |
| 24 | Marxist theoreticians argued that without a confident class to support it liberalism failed to complete the bourgeois revolution against feudalism ; thus they sought tactical models in Tsarist Russia that represented a stage of development comparable to that of modern Spain . |
| 25 | There was then a nervous wait for Ray Younger who finished in 35th place as fourth scorer to give them victory by two points over North Belfast with Albertville a further two points adrift . |
| 26 | You have more reason to wish him harm than I , is n't that so ? ’ |
| 27 | And he demands that I create for him a mate , a gigantic Eve to give him solace . ’ |
| 28 | The more time to see it approach . |
| 29 | Unsurprisingly , given this position , he is insistent that Anglo-Saxon and philology be retained as essential features of English studies , even in the light of the growth of the discipline : " Our first responsibility is to our subject , and , as that expands , we must not look for more ingenious methods of selection but for more time to do it justice . |
| 30 | I needed a strong man to help me rule the country . |