Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 So watch them for a while and then he started dancing with them and he dance them all night and he just get in his hand .
2 Run home at once , and bring me some gloves and a fan .
3 Anybody who want 's to take part , and ca n't get today 's Torygraph , send me another mail and we 'll work out the best way to get the stuff to you .
4 I can honestly say I hardly do any work , even though I am involved in various projects that occupy me most weekdays and some evenings .
5 Please forgive me these things and the people I have wronged . ’
6 Laura Ashley send you various brochures and things like that , eg invitation to 40th anniversary tea etc — I would really rather they did n't .
7 ‘ And send her some hand-cream and cigarettes .
8 cost them bloody loads and then they 'll turn it into an absolute cack heap like it was before .
9 Or how about your every day football manager , suspect to the whims of ambitious chairmen and demands of football fans who hail you one minute and then call for your head if the glint of silverware is not on the horizon .
10 while you 're still able sort of comfortably to drive and that sort of thing , I mean if you put it that way and you 'll be saying anyway she 's my er she 's my only living
11 Multiply me several times and you have a good idea of the sort of coverage this author of PN 's Trivial Pursuits column and Harvey Porlock of the Sunday Times will get .
12 so you owe me ten minutes and normally when you come into my room you say I 'm sorry I 'm late .
13 And then I could add them together , or if that 's a bit awkward , what I could do is I could think of the hundred and one as a hundred add one , I can think of the seventeen as ten add seven , and then I multiply them this way and I multiply all the bits and then add all the bits up at the end .
14 The Driver in the case of a light engine then goes to the telephone to inform the Signalman each end of the tunnel and give them all particulars and if blocking both lines .
15 I can do nothing to help except give them good references and a few quid to tide them over .
16 They 're just pure-intellect machines , as well all know , but I swear that it 's not out of humanizing sentiment that we give them female names and pronouns .
17 They first of all say they want local government to be more responsible , to be more trusted , to have more freedom , I then give them that freedom and then they complain that I 'm not telling local government what to do and I do n't intend to lay down every detail of what they should do .
18 But , says Libby Purves , children do n't like to be pushed and their skills will grow naturally if you give them gentle encouragement and lots of opportunities
19 Most friends or neighbours will happily take a fishtank , caged bird , or animal for two weeks , providing you give them written instructions and all the feeding , bedding and any other necessities .
20 Give them enough time and they 'd catch up with Blackbeard , if Blackbeard really was the killer .
21 When feeding fish , give them high-protein food and a supplement of dried daphnia each day .
22 If customer complaints pass your desk , ensure that you give them maximum time and personal attention .
23 Their thinness means that short-range molecular forces give them exceptional coating and film forming properties .
24 Give me one kiss and I will think of your saucy appeal against me no more .
25 Give me yon 'oss and get thissen 'ome . ’
26 Give me ten years and I 'll make something that can do it in twenty . ’
27 Give me some Fors and Againsts . ’
28 Penalise them two shots and they 'd soon speed up .
29 For this reason consider them temporary houseplants and propagate new stock each year .
30 I watch you all day and I feel dry inside . ’
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