Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he was n't when he came to see me a couple of years back . |
| 2 | I 've built up my career in an area where women are not generally accepted , and just being seen as your girlfriend is going to lose me a lot of respect ! ’ |
| 3 | The tiny Regency houses had no doubt been listed to spare them the attentions of developers ; from the state of the paving stones and the grass-studded cracks in the roadway , it seemed that the town council too had passed them by . |
| 4 | Probably if ‘ Damnation Derek ’ had bothered to talk to people and get to know them a bit before preaching at them , he would have discovered that they would want to ask him some questions about what he believed . |
| 5 | I was treated like a servant so I asked Freddie to find me a place of my own . |
| 6 | The rather provocative title of their single having failed to garner them an interview with CNN , they have threatened to kill my family if the record is n't reviewed here . |
| 7 | But when I was seeing him he offered to write me a check for five million pound , I said , I could n't take a check for five million pound because I was a to me . |
| 8 | ‘ Have to find you a change of clothes , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ Aye , got better than that , William Davies , ’ Hari said , ‘ come on , I might be able to find you a bit of soup as well as some bread . ‘ |
| 10 | ‘ Otherwise , I will use my influence to find you an apprenticeship at one of the better fashion establishments . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It is the agency 's responsibility to find you the type of work you have indicated that you are interested in . |
| 12 | To do that , on May 18th the prime minister , Leonid Kuchma , asked parliament to grant him a range of extraordinary powers : to rule the economy by decree , control the central bank and the state privatisation body and have jurisdiction over the president 's satraps in the regions . |
| 13 | For the law to grant him a defence in these circumstances would be to grant a licence for sexual exploitation . |
| 14 | A good example is a manufacturer who sells to a reseller and requires the reseller to grant him an indemnity in respect of third party claims for product liability made against the manufacturer arising in relation to the products of the manufacturer that are sold on by the reseller . |
| 15 | Edward undertook to place a force of 600 men at the duke 's disposal and to grant him the earldom of Richmond , to which his family had an ancient claim and which John of Gaunt relinquished for the purpose . |
| 16 | Even Hun Sen , the Prime Minister , has asked the province committee to find him a village in Kep , according to Mr Sok Hay . |
| 17 | To take a few examples : J. Uvedale asked Thomas Cromwell in 1537 to find him a place with the King or with Prince Edward ; Ralph Sadler asked Cromwell to help him obtain from the Bishop of London the keepership of a park in Essex ; John Varney wanted Cromwell to get the King 's signature approving his petition for a life patent of his stewardship of Berkhamsted and King 's Langley ; Lord Sheffield hinted to Robert Cecil that he would like the vacant position of Lord Chamberlain ; and so on . |
| 18 | Although he promotes himself as a friend of John Major , the Conservative Party has for some inexplicable reason been unable to find him a job in the Government where his extensive talents could be stretched . |
| 19 | Competition could be fierce , as a young Dundee officer discovered when even the influence of the powerful David Scott failed to secure him a place for the voyage of 1801 because |
| 20 | She must persuade him of her good intentions — for it had never crossed her mind that she would not repay him — but she must also try to convince him of the seriousness of her situation and persuade him to grant her a bit of leeway . |
| 21 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 22 | Has the company appeared to escort him the rest of the way ? |
| 23 | Just to sell them a product without educating them to challenge and to care about the ingredients that go into those products would be wrong . |
| 24 | ‘ If it goes as we expect , then your task , when they are close enough , is to split me a way into the ranks of the two central battles of pikemen . ’ |
| 25 | I 'm going to pour you a cup of tea now . |
| 26 | The Leasehold Reform Act 1967 for the first time introduces leasehold enfranchisement , whereby a lessee is entitled to compel his lessor to sell him the freehold upon payment of compensation on a scale fixed by the Act . |
| 27 | In our example , if B has induced A to sell him the goods by making a misrepresentation , then B will acquire only a voidable title . |
| 28 | The photographer offered to sell him the negatives for £30 at the time but he did n't have the money . |
| 29 | Perhaps he was going to try to sell her a story for the column ? |
| 30 | ‘ Invalid and invalid as in having no effect , ’ Fernando grumbled as he went to pour her a drink from a jug on the table . |