Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You want me to blow up a railroad station ? ’ |
| 2 | Expect them to be hammered and they hold the eventual World Cup winners to a point : expect them to see off a side which had not won in the Championship for three years and they submit weakly . |
| 3 | The thing here was that all the flowers were blue — delphiniums and cornflowers and forget me nots round a sundial in the middle of a smooth green velvet lawn . |
| 4 | about sixty , yeah , because , say you pay out a quarter of the price from , you there |
| 5 | When you 've finished with the reptiles , I want you to round up a group of humans . |
| 6 | In this extract Roddy 's parents want him to take up a useful hobby : |
| 7 | With Mark and Babur it comes up a lot . |
| 8 | ‘ My brother is but an earl , and yet you expect us to give up a king in exchange . |
| 9 | You know , let them die off a bit |
| 10 | So let me spell out a few more advantages you may not have realised before : |
| 11 | ‘ Let me sit down a minute , ’ I begged . |
| 12 | Let me pick up a few points which occur to me arising out of what you 've just been saying . |
| 13 | Let me pick up a few points which occur to me arising out of what you 've just been saying . |
| 14 | ‘ We feel we should fight Mr Butters and let him take on a white elephant while we play elsewhere for a year and maybe we can return to Belle Vue . ’ |
| 15 | Just to show her who 's boss , I compel her to let out a shriek . |
| 16 | Next year I hope they bring in a seeding system as many of the top winning dogs clashed very early on . |
| 17 | Let it cool down a bit . |
| 18 | And just let it come out a bit more . |
| 19 | Break it to go round a planting bed , make a circle on which to stand a large plant pot or statue , or to give a paved area around a rotary clothes dryer . |
| 20 | Leaving this aside for the moment though , let us set up a contrast between the two as follows : |
| 21 | Let us go back a minute to those leaders of men . |
| 22 | To clarify matters , let us go back a step and ask some basic questions . |
| 23 | But first let us stand back a little and , starting at the surface of the phenomenon , let us consider the most general ‘ shapes ’ and patterns that speech communities may exhibit . |
| 24 | Let us consider in a little more detail some of the main features of British elections ( in other words , election of the House of Commons ) before proceeding to a consideration of the current controversy surrounding the electoral system . |
| 25 | Should the government dare to interfere with our private domestic life , let us rise to a man and protest and also let us get up a monster demonstration and march four deep to Trafalgar Square . " |
| 26 | You pick you pick out a code of numbers with this one |
| 27 | I watch you freewheeling along a vine-wrapped colonnade , and pause under an archway wrought in stone and lovely with purple flowers ringing in the new light . |
| 28 | Yeah so erm yeah so if you get that sort of thing and then you can in some way either get people to discuss or get them to fill in a questionnaire about it or something of the sort I mean that 's er the format that y'know kind of er seems to work quite well for final year projects anyway er generally speaking with other stuff so er yeah that 's that 's do-able . |
| 29 | The idea is to get them to trust the staff and their peer group and get them to open up a bit . |
| 30 | I I remember I knocked out a man 's teeth in front of witnesses , just by using my mi my fist like that , hitting their tooth with a karate pass and brought the tooth out cleanly . |