Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small trainer like me has a job to tick over , let alone make a living , but he always comes to the rescue . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , ’ the Doctor began , ‘ first I 've got your General Fakrid barking at me to find a way to polish off these eight twelves . |
| 3 | Could I make an appointment to see her at the Education Office to sort out the dinner money debts once and for all — hopefully . |
| 4 | Can I make an appointment to see a solicitor ? |
| 5 | All you can say is could I make could I make an appointment to see you ? |
| 6 | In both editions of this book , I made a decision to use what some linguists have called ‘ the visibility strategy ’ , or ‘ positive language ’ , in which all generics are feminine : she , her . |
| 7 | In fact er just prior to the start of the operation er I made a decision to change the shotgun holders over . |
| 8 | I made a note to get some . |
| 9 | I made a note to find out which . |
| 10 | After school the following afternoon , Alf Norris and I made a beeline to see the damage . |
| 11 | I made an excuse to call on our twelfth man and I asked him to tell our manager , Khalid Mahmood , what was going on . |
| 12 | I made an excuse to come out . |
| 13 | It was then still dark , and knowing I had a full day 's motoring ahead of me , I made an attempt to return to sleep . |
| 14 | I made an attempt to move out of the way then it struck me . ’ |
| 15 | I made an attempt to speak . |
| 16 | I made an appointment to se you sort of this week but that 's |
| 17 | One day in the middle of February I made an appointment to meet Dr Jaffery at the Red Fort . |
| 18 | The beach is all mine but I can not stay long for I lack a senorita to oil my back . |
| 19 | Well I do n't ring up the client now , I make a note to ring them Monday night , because every approach session should always start off with warm calls , I do n't know if Alan told you that . |
| 20 | ‘ For Top of the Pops , I make an effort to look glammed up but not too much — the knackered shorts tone the outfit down a bit ’ |
| 21 | But I am sensible enough to realise that if I make an effort to understand what different foods actually contain , it will help my body share the benefits of my enjoyment . |
| 22 | ‘ The Steve Cropper connection came about because he and I got a chance to get reacquainted with one another down in Seville at the Guitar Legends concerts . |
| 23 | I got a bloke to see about some business . ’ |
| 24 | Cos I , I , know , I know it means roughly in common terms cos , I got a sister to interpret it . |
| 25 | I got , I got , I got a number to choose from , certainly yes , yes , yes , yes . |
| 26 | Then , a few days after I got back from Oxford , I got a telegram to say I had a scholarship . |
| 27 | And it got , in the end , actually , if I was , if I had to do something that was urgent or I had to go somewhere I used to have to say to her something like , you know , erm oh I better get on , I got a lot to do this morning , or I 'm goi I 've to be shopping and be back in time to cook Jim 's dinner or something like that cos he 's starting , oh I 've got ta have his dinner ready at twelve before he goes to work and if I really was pushed otherwise she would have come in every day . |
| 28 | So I got a manual to help me . |
| 29 | When I first started , I got a paper to go to Rose Hill Station on Scotland Road . |
| 30 | I got a letter to say dad was in hospital and we had a buzz bomb and it was n't too bad and er do n't worry . |