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 | 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 . |
| 4 | In fact er just prior to the start of the operation er I made a decision to change the shotgun holders over . |
| 5 | I made a note to get some . |
| 6 | I made a note to find out which . |
| 7 | After school the following afternoon , Alf Norris and I made a beeline to see the damage . |
| 8 | The beach is all mine but I can not stay long for I lack a senorita to oil my back . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | I got a bloke to see about some business . ’ |
| 12 | Cos I , I , know , I know it means roughly in common terms cos , I got a sister to interpret it . |
| 13 | I got , I got , I got a number to choose from , certainly yes , yes , yes , yes . |
| 14 | Then , a few days after I got back from Oxford , I got a telegram to say I had a scholarship . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | So I got a manual to help me . |
| 17 | When I first started , I got a paper to go to Rose Hill Station on Scotland Road . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I expected a fanfare to greet me , or at least for Tony to fall to his knees in admiration . |
| 20 | I expected a struggle to keep up with the hearse ; instead , its response surprised me . |
| 21 | I tried a machine to express milk in the hospital but by the time the milk did start to come through she was really used to the bottle . |
| 22 | As for me , the things I expect a computer to do have advanced somewhat . |
| 23 | Suppose that I expect a colleague to give me a lift home this evening , but that her car has a flat battery ; this wo n't stop us , however , because a friend 's car is parked conveniently near with some jump leads which we can use to get her car to start . |
| 24 | I confided in him and we worked at it together and I found a way to have an orgasm . |
| 25 | And when I was alone , in the Métro , I found a contract to sign . |
| 26 | But I had to do my own asking round before I found a place to visit . |
| 27 | Some years ago , I helped a woman to stop smoking . |
| 28 | ‘ I want a nightdress to send airmail , ’ I said to a saleswoman in a fair-to-lousy cut-price shop . |
| 29 | If I want a charity to benefit by 100 and I am paying tax at 30 per cent , I need only give up 70 . |
| 30 | People should not be afraid to come in and say , ‘ I want a system to make my life easier ’ , or , ‘ I want a spreadsheet that will do this ’ . ’ |