Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] i [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And if you want to do me a real favour , stop saying yes , for Christ 's sake . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Just stop giving me a hard time and leave me alone . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Before we retroscend allow me a few prefatory remarks on your pants . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ The other boys keep calling me a big cissy , ’ sobbed John , ‘ and hitting me ! ’ |
| 7 | Do send me an interim copy as soon as you can , even in draft or uncorrected form , so that I can all the better rack my brains for you ! |
| 8 | ‘ You do love me a little bit , do n't you , Harry ? ’ she said . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Thanks very much Mark , you 've given me the hardest part . |
| 11 | They 've given me the main facts . |
| 12 | Now you 've given me the same answer for two different inputs , but that 's okay . |
| 13 | I had someone come to see me the other week from the R S P C A because they said this cat was held forty foot in the air |
| 14 | And they 've assigned me a prolific blighter ( 'lific blighter ) — |
| 15 | You 've told me a million times how beautiful my island is , ’ Fernando laughed , sautéing garlic and onions . |
| 16 | Dearest wave bobber — you 've shown me a living rainbow . ’ |
| 17 | If the Ashford Castle Hotel now wish to give me a free suite in return for this publicity , I shall not demur . |
| 18 | " You 've led me a merry dance , I must say . " |
| 19 | for my biscuit today and for myself I had a dinosaur , Miss gave me a whole dinosaur and I had the head arms , erm , the head of the big one |
| 20 | I add them up yesterday and said what 's it , what do I do , I 've not come to , now they 've sent me a temporary one . |
| 21 | ‘ If I 've got my pants on in the second scene , I think they 've sent me the wrong script , ’ he says . |
| 22 | He 'd tried , the first year , rooming with the others , and had found they still came up to him all the time with their queries — ‘ They 've sent me the wrong costume for Gypsy Baron . |
| 23 | We will — once you 've bid me a proper good morning , the sort a woman gives a man after she 's spent the night in his arms . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The police have given me a special telephone number . |
| 25 | ‘ They have given me a special office in the Kremlin . |
| 26 | ‘ You have given me a whole month of misery . |
| 27 | Both have given me a remarkable insight into the events they portray . |
| 28 | Slattery 's the travel people , have given me an open ticket , so I can cross the water any day I feel like . |
| 29 | ‘ Women have taught me a tremendous amount about emotions . |
| 30 | ‘ They have called me a rotten apple , which , coming from them , I take as a compliment , ’ he says . |