Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Won t you forgive me for keeping it a secret ? ’ |
| 2 | Every little thing concerning Jacob turned into a private battle between Rachel and I. When I gave birth to Reuben , I believed that my husband must love me for giving him a son . |
| 3 | Thank you for sending me a copy of CCW 's Research Programme for 1993 . |
| 4 | Thank you for sending me a copy of the CCW 's initial response to this paper . |
| 5 | Thank you for calling us a perfect example . |
| 6 | Charles joins me in wishing you a perfect holiday , dearest Theo , |
| 7 | ‘ Why should you dare to refuse me without giving me a reason ? ’ he countered . |
| 8 | Thanking him for giving me a lift , I sat down in the passenger seat and waited for Chapman to get moving . |
| 9 | One caller accused him of labelling it a hell-hole . |
| 10 | Leonard talked him into giving him a lesson . |
| 11 | ‘ So that you can overpower Jimmy , or talk him into giving you a gun back ? |
| 12 | Kenny Doyle , the twenty-eight-year-old barman at the Rollercoaster , knew her real age but that had never stopped him from serving her a drink . |
| 13 | A clip round the ear has more chance of preventing him from doing something a second time than bringing all these other agencies in . |
| 14 | I begin to pronounce the sequence of words and numbers that will prevent her from giving him a piece of her mind . |
| 15 | As Professor Housman used to say , ‘ Stand on a barrel in the streets of Baghdad and say twice two are four and ginger is hot in the mouth and therefore Mohammed is the prophet of God , and it is unlikely that anyone would question your reasoning ; but if he should be bold enough to do so , you could easily silence him by calling him a Christian dog . ’ |
| 16 | Stanley can see through Blanche 's lies and deception but what annoys him is the pretence that Blanche puts on pretending to be better than him and taunting him by calling him a ‘ Polak ’ . |
| 17 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 18 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 19 | The father , for his part , must make sure that these privileges are properly passed on to him by giving him a death-bed blessing . |
| 20 | Griselda Kerr , who has such a cheery smile and a warm heart , welcome everyone , standing beside the President of the Royal Academy Mr Roger de Grey , who later honoured her by making her a Trustee of the Royal Academy . |
| 21 | She glanced at the automatic camera attached to her wrist ; all this time she had been clutching it without giving it a thought . |
| 22 | Jesus used the illustration , he says , you parents , you fathers , if your children are hungry you do n't mock them by giving them a stone you give them egg , you give them bread , you give them meat , you do n't give them a scorpion , something to harm them , you do n't mock them by giving them some , something they ca n't eat ! |
| 23 | Nor will future researchers thank us for leaving them a vast amount of dross which makes the location and comprehension of useful material more difficult . |
| 24 | He then astonished us by lending us a jeep , with its driver , Abu , for as long as we needed it . |