Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [pers pn] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's looking for a decent second-hand one , and I actually want to buy her a new one , and she does n't know about it . |
| 2 | I 'm doing it tomorrow cos I want to leave it a little bit |
| 3 | ‘ And if you want to do me a real favour , stop saying yes , for Christ 's sake . ’ |
| 4 | Or maybe maybe that is n't the first thing you want to do , if you want to do it a different way , do it whichever makes more sense to you . |
| 5 | We love her so much and want to give her a lovely home . |
| 6 | What happens if he says well I want to alter it a little bit ? |
| 7 | I I 'm very grateful to the minister but I want to ask him a straightforward question . |
| 8 | They would begin to know that putting a little eighth note right before the next bar meant anticipation and that made things easier because , if you have a half hour lesson and they want to learn something by Iron Maiden , and you want to show them a dorian mode in three octaves and they 've got to show you their chords in four or five positions , you 've got to work fast ! |
| 9 | They want to rip all the trees down as well they want to make it a little piazza thing do n't they ? |
| 10 | I want I want to tell you a secret |
| 11 | That skimp cost me a learned pig of prodigious memory , two weeks in Benidorm with a beautician called Tracey , a life peerage and my entire collection of Marc Bolan records . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Just stop giving me a hard time and leave me alone . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ No great deal , perhaps , my lord , save to spare him a costly war . |
| 14 | In fact , the new Microchip machines have every feature you could wish for , including Crease Save to give you a nice rest from heavy ironing sessions . |
| 15 | and you know we could , in those days because of the number of people employed being Electric Supply and Transport , we could erm , manage to keep it a viable proposition for an evening 's entertainment then and erm , you probably can turn this up in the , the Star they 're showing erm as he was then , one of the drivers swimming from erm Stoke Bathing Place to Felixstowe . |
| 16 | So I tend to give them a wide berth wherever possible . |
| 17 | I remember making her a little black satin coat and Dutch bonnet with things sticking out and all edged with lace and it was all er black satin and underneath the bonnet was er pleated er blue chiffon . |
| 18 | Sir , If you please to send me a scarlet Cardinal [ a short red cloak ] , and let it be full yard long , and rather longer than a yard long , and let it be full , for it be for a large Woman , they tell me I may have a long one , and a handsome one , for 11s but I shou 'd not be willing to give more than 12s , but if you have any as long as that , either duffil or cloth , if it is cheaper , I shou 'd like it as well as , for I am not to give but 12s for it . |
| 19 | Quickly , I thread my way through the semi-darkness high backstage , and turn to give her a reassuring wave . |
| 20 | odd fifty P here , and pound here and I always try to give them a little bit . |
| 21 | ‘ The other boys keep calling me a big cissy , ’ sobbed John , ‘ and hitting me ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I try to make it a therapeutic education process for the abductees as well . |
| 23 | When I smile at her , I try to make it a fatherly smile . |
| 24 | This book , these books are quite good because they do give you a little bit of explanation . |
| 25 | ‘ My God , they do give you a red face when you 're least expecting it . ’ |
| 26 | The stunts gave Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em a visual comedy that has not been seen on television before or since . |
| 27 | ‘ Methinks its motion in this hush of nature Gives it dim sympathies with me who live Making it a companionable form , Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling spirit By its own moods interprets , everywhere Echo or mirror seeking of itself , And makes a toy of Thought . |
| 28 | ‘ You do love me a little bit , do n't you , Harry ? ’ she said . |
| 29 | I 've given her a mild sedative and I 'll sit here with her myself until she sleeps . ’ |
| 30 | They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire . |