Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Jacobsen , I hardly think my alleged avoidance of you is justification enough for labelling me a man-hater . ’ |
| 2 | Getting out , Flavia said dully , ‘ Thank you very much for giving me a lift . ’ |
| 3 | Thank you very much Mr Chairman thank you very much for giving me a chance to speak this afternoon . |
| 4 | But Warren is prepared to meet Hodkinson halfway by paying him a further £25,000 — provided he beats McMillan but he will have to offer the WBO champion the same . |
| 5 | You can show me or remind me of the difference between orange and pink , perhaps by showing me a colour chart . |
| 6 | Tolkien 's romance was an amalgam , then , and a potent one ; and its improbable success in his sixties lay not just in proving itself a bestseller but in making of itself the heart and mind of an international cult : a cult that was to spread to England from romantically-minded lands like California and the Antipodes . |
| 7 | He had a peculiar habit of sliding effortlessly from throwing me a bait to hitting me over the head with it . |
| 8 | He strode away without giving her a chance to speak , leaving her with the distinct impression that she had just been steamrollered . |
| 9 | • the possibility of setting up shared arrangements through personal contacts ( always worth giving me a call , I can be a communications link ) |
| 10 | The 29-year-old Motherwell man , who has made an art form of fouling up on the big occasion , acknowledged that he too came close to calling it a day after the Olympics . |
| 11 | So many cities enrolled him as a freeman , usually by giving him a scroll of membership in a gold box , that Horace Walpole summed up his popularity in the phrase ‘ For some weeks it rained gold boxes ’ , and the more prosaic Duke of Newcastle recognized that no government could survive if Pitt opposed it . |
| 12 | People strolled past without giving him a second look — couples hand in hand , families with pushchairs , groups of friends looking for a good spot to picnic . |
| 13 | One religious who responded to God 's calling to celibacy explained : ‘ Chastity does not consist of deadening our heart but rather in giving it a liberty of love , a single aim , a transparency to God . |
| 14 | Far from calling himself a god he admits his own inadequacies — he can not rebuild the dome , he can not claim to have fed on honey-dew and drunk the Milk of paradise . |
| 15 | In spring mulch the soil around it well after giving it a good soaking , this will encourage the soil to stay moist . |
| 16 | On the other hand , they felt that counsellors were generally helpful in sorting out their most pressing needs , particularly in finding them a more sympathetic GP and resolving their accommodation and financial problems . |
| 17 | Nutty thought that was too much of a risk , but if they were out it seemed almost like doing them a favour , to patronise their pool , confirm that it was in working order . |
| 18 | Thank you once again for giving me a really good laugh at just one of the many aspects of being a happy single parent . |
| 19 | Like getting a wage packet again , instead of voting myself a salary as my own director or whatever it is they make me do . ’ |
| 20 | Instead of buying us a present , from erm , my mum bought me a few bits and pieces when they went to France . |
| 21 | His almost pathological dread of producing a legato line means that instead of drawing us a picture of clear , flowing melodies he leaves little join-up-the-dots type sketches with the notes separated from each other by wide open spaces which even the generous resonance of St Peter 's , Waltrop ( near Dortmund ) can not adequately fill . |
| 22 | Dad often helps folks with their gardens and he is going to ask them to give a donation to Camphill Development Fund instead of giving him a present . |
| 23 | grading , instead of giving them a pay rise they get |
| 24 | Instead of giving it a grant , they paid back their money . |
| 25 | Instead of making yourself a killing machine , now you make yourself a sex machine ( look at titles like ‘ Body To Body , ’ ‘ Drive ’ ) . |
| 26 | Instead of doing it a bit at a time , we can just multiply it . |
| 27 | He assured me they never put dogs down and they would try to help her build up trust in humans again before finding her a home . |
| 28 | ‘ We look forward to making it a hat-trick and are happy to offer our engineering facilities to any group with a similar project in mind . ’ |
| 29 | And I shall look forward to giving you a good report when you next visit us in a ’ — she paused — ‘ fortnight 's time . |
| 30 | Dave said , ‘ The most frightening part of the jump was climbing out of the plane and having to crawl along the wing before jumping , but I look forward to doing it a second time just for fun ! ’ |