Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've done nothing to deserve all your vicious insinuations — neither with Richard , nor with Adam , and if you ca n't bring yourself to believe in me the least you could do would be to grant them some scrap of integrity . ’ |
| 2 | I think the family managed to find him some kind of posting in a province in the north-west , towards the Land of the Twin Rivers . |
| 3 | I was trying to find him some couple of pairs of socks but I could n't find anything I liked . |
| 4 | I have made it a point of honour to spare you moral blackmail of the ‘ Do you honestly suppose for a single moment that I would be capable of stooping to such beastliness ? ’ variety , and I shall not waver even at this supreme moment . |
| 5 | Dent is so refreshingly different from the city environments of most of the visitors that it would be churlish to deny them this glimpse of a way of life that belongs to history . |
| 6 | And please try to give me some indication of where this man can be found . ’ |
| 7 | However , I was not prepared just to accept him with no experience at all and I asked him to give me some sort of evidence about the amount of flying he had done . |
| 8 | Boudiaf had met the leaders of eight opposition parties on Feb. 9 in order to give them prior notice of the measures . |
| 9 | The old men in Beijing may not be sure of how to respond to the tactics that such behaviour makes possible ; certainly , previous governors chose to give them little experience of them , preferring the old , almost hallowed , practice of kowtowing to them . |
| 10 | The week-long camps are sponsored by Digital Equipment Company , and are open to students aged from 14 to 17 years to give them practical experience of the computer applications they will come across when they take up their careers . |
| 11 | And for people accompanued by small children , there is a unique automatic baby listening service to give them complete peace of mind while enjoying their stay . |
| 12 | Their close contact with individual children or small groups seemed to give them some measure of what children can actually do in a foreign language in a relatively non-threatening way . |
| 13 | However , an effort was made to give them some kind of compensation , by extending the provision of the afa ( beans , rice and sugar rations ) beyond the initial emergency period , and offering them free transport and free spectacles . |
| 14 | It 's very hard to explain , but these people are all on the extreme left and were seeking a poet to give them some sort of standing . |
| 15 | 6 League Games have been played as to date ( 22.06.93 ) , with 1 draw , 2 wins and 3 losses ( we have to give them some sort of chance before we give them a good thrashing ) . |
| 16 | I hope that we will be able to give them some sort of relief from the distress that I know that they will be feeling at the outcome of this case today . ’ |
| 17 | JEWKES : [ to PAMELA ] Give me leave , madam , to wish you all manner of happiness but I am afraid I have too well obeyed his honour to be forgiven by you . |
| 18 | With NatWest , you get the valuable option of the NatWest Home Improvement Loan Protector to give you extra peace of mind . |
| 19 | The Shotector has an easily accessible Test/Reset button to give you additional peace of mind each time you use it . |
| 20 | The Shoctector has an easily accessible Test/Reset button to give you additional peace of mind each time you use it . |
| 21 | for them to give you this kind of service ! |
| 22 | I should mention that if for any reason we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 23 | I should mention that if , for any reason , we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 24 | I should mention that if , for any reason , we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 25 | I 'm going to give you some idea of what it 's like to be fucked . ’ |
| 26 | To give you some idea of how important investment performance is , Charles Walker of London & Capital Group , which specialises in school fees planning , did the following calculations . |
| 27 | In order to give you some idea of the boundaries of the propositions these are numbered in the extract given above . |
| 28 | To give you some idea of its relative size , Stoddard Templeton trades with approximately 3,000 outlets . |
| 29 | To give you some idea of the scope of the problem and how multi-faceted it is ; Kermit Weeks , his staff and volunteers are finding and sorting the aircraft pieces , drying out books , covering aircraft and items of every other sort with plastic to protect them from the weather and they are also spraying the collection of spare aircraft parts which filled a 50,000sq ft building . |
| 30 | To give you some idea of difference between the number of stories News and Current Affairs on Radio 4 can offer now , and say , what your papers carry : we had a look at one 24 hour period at the beginning of the month . |