Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is the agency 's responsibility to find you the type of work you have indicated that you are interested in . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not on at all for a brother-in-law to treat me the way you treat me . |
| 3 | And the dam is turf Ed on the land ward side to give it the appearance of a gently sloping field . |
| 4 | The report , for the local authorities reports mentioned in the committee item is an attempt to give me the subject of car boot sales a fairly wide airing . |
| 5 | All you have to do is answer five questions and write a short tie-breaker to give you the opportunity of winning the title and prize of Sainsbury 's Wine Taste Challenge Winner . |
| 6 | The Discovery is the first ever gas cooker to have a hotplate with ‘ Gas Powered Discs ’ a revolutionary new concept developed by Moffat that actually places a Disc above the flame to give you the controllability you expect from gas plus an unheard of level of cleanability . |
| 7 | Jacqui gurgled something incomprehensible , as Kattina 's tongue shot into her mouth to save her the embarrassment of replying . |
| 8 | But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away . |
| 9 | Ask your parish priest to show you the scale of charges and to explain the fees to you . |
| 10 | Well , rightly or wrongly we 've come to arrangements with the Liberals , not because we like the Liberals , not because we wanted to , but we , we were fed up with be being in opposition to tell you the truth . |
| 11 | Montag 's speech is a desperate attempt to show her the reality of her life . |
| 12 | It would n't do any good to tell her the truth — if it was the truth . |
| 13 | Finally he 'll decide to go and tinker with his terminal to tell him the tally to date . |
| 14 | He drew out a sturdy transparent plastic inner bag and held it up to the light to show me the contents . |
| 15 | We are committed to it and it is our intention to make it the centre of a big programme of tennis in the city . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ My husband is n't well , ’ I said , having no mind to hand him the truth at that moment . |
| 17 | I would expect the right hon. Lady to give us the answers , because she still has time to absorb what her civil servants have to tell her . |
| 18 | Daisy said , ‘ He told Sister he 'd like our Charlie to stay in the Hall to give him the chance to get his nerve back in easy stages . |
| 19 | They are required by the Law Society 's Training Regulations to provide experience in articles in a number of recognised areas of the law to give you the training necessary to qualify as a solicitor . |
| 20 | He had been angered by her obvious , if unspoken , suspicion that he had persuaded the old lady to leave him the half share of the house . |
| 21 | I 've been on the other side of things often enough — guitar in hand , waiting for someone behind a mixing desk to give me the word to start playing — but they 'd never actually let me touch anything ! |
| 22 | With Clearblue One Step , in just three minutes a blue line appears in the small window to show you the test 's complete . |
| 23 | Kathleen Claar , custodian of the Last Indian Raid Museum in Oberlin , Kansas , took him to a small cemetery to show him the grave of her husband and of Rick Read , the last man lynched in the state . |
| 24 | ‘ They knew about us , the type of vehicle we were drivin' , and they instructed the keeper of that crossin' to tell us the road over the pass was open , that it was okay . ’ |
| 25 | I never had any money to buy her the things she wanted . ’ |
| 26 | Scott 's first letter had been an appalling error , and it would seem sufficient reason why Donaldson should suggest reversing the decision to award him the Gold Medal , but Scott , when drafting his Recollections in later years , looked for further motives behind Donaldson 's action as he could not ‘ reconcile it with the character and generosity which Donaldson has usually evinced ’ . |
| 27 | Their views should be sought on the issues to be raised prior to a case conference to afford them the opportunity to seek advice and prepare their representations . |
| 28 | Let us wait for some more opportune moment to give her the news that Kokos is back in town . |
| 29 | Duncan had been asleep when the policeman burst into the room to give him the news that Leeming had been found . |
| 30 | Having said that , we still made sure that our reps called on the group to give them the information . |