Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for nothing have I a brother-in-law who cooks professionally . |
| 2 | We were in the First Division far too fleetingly and this is an opportunity for everyone to show what a big club Portsmouth really are . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that . |
| 4 | ‘ Are n't you going to wait for me to give you a lift ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm afraid it 's impossible for me to give you a definite answer . ’ |
| 6 | It just remains for me to wish you a prosperous and happy one . |
| 7 | She obviously waited for me to prove myself an old toper , but I did not . |
| 8 | ‘ If it were n't for me giving you a roof over your head after your mother had the gall to die on me , you would have ended up in the bloody workhouse ! |
| 9 | They are looking for someone to give them a helping hand . ’ |
| 10 | Simone rushed back into the house , dumping the bags on the kitchen table , calling out for someone to give her a hand . |
| 11 | The two of them leapt out of the beached cockboat and strode up past the fishwives , some of whom gave him a " good day " but most of whom preserved a surly silence . |
| 12 | In its final moments a sophisticated urbane man in a nightclub is led discreetly through a back door into a room which is a mortuary run by nuns , one of whom shows him a dead body drawn out of a wall on a slab . |
| 13 | Pretty silly of me to give you a false name , but I have n't much experience of — of — ‘ |
| 14 | ‘ Do you know , one of them brought me an oxtail the other evening ? ’ |
| 15 | One of them asked him a question . |
| 16 | This choice was helped to be made when one of them wrote me a nasty letter saying that it was clear that I wanted the other as my friend ( which , if I may say , was a lot of nonsense ) ! |
| 17 | All the recruits were dressed in blue tracksuits and the Corporal told one of them to show me a bed and explain what was going on . |
| 18 | One of them gave me a basket she had made and when I lifted the lid there was a card with her name in Greek and English , and the words ‘ For You ’ … . |
| 19 | Get that splendid girl of yours to give me a date or two and I 'll see if we can fix something up fairly promptly . ’ |
| 20 | He went to the top eight accountancy firms in London , all of which offered him a job . |
| 21 | All of which makes it a bargain and one I shall miss for years to come . |
| 22 | This area to São Vicente is very sparsely populated and the road Passes through numerous tunnels and past cascading waterfalls , some of which give you a free car-wash , even in the summer when there has been no rain for months . |
| 23 | It 's you that 's wanted down at the station and it was kind of you to give me a lift . |
| 24 | ‘ Mademoiselle Rossignol , it 's very kind of you to spare me a little of your time … ’ |
| 25 | The exchange which I began , ‘ Could one of you give me a hand with these lunatics ? ’ went as follows : ‘ Sorry sport , international regulations ; ca n't leave the flight deck . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ How kind of you to bring me a Christmas pudding ! ’ she exclaimed . |
| 27 | She said it was very kind of you to make her a cake , and she 's asked you to tea at her house ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Look , it 's terribly kind of you to find me a place to stay , but you must let me give you the money . |
| 29 | The receipt a person of a share of the profits of a business is prima facie evidence that he is a partner in the business but the receipt of such a share , or of a payment contingent on or varying with the profits of a business , does not of itself make him a partner in the business . |
| 30 | The trouble was that being a good club player , even being an outstanding club player , does not of itself make you a worthy international , and it was Waldron 's failure to recognise this of his own Neath players that contributed as much as anything to his downfall . |