Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Grey ’ issues of money occur whenever enterprises that are short of funds to pay their obligations insist that the banks should make them the necessary advances to restore their ‘ liquidity ’ . |
| 2 | Plus , of course , he admitted to himself wryly , the fact that the hours and the work do n't make me the ideal boy-friend , let alone husband . |
| 3 | You can shew me the exact spot and that will save time . |
| 4 | I do n't know I the other day . |
| 5 | ‘ Money buys you certain things , but it ca n't buy you the simple pleasures in life like going around the corner into a bar and having a drink , ’ he says |
| 6 | Though she had said she was too young for them she had been enraptured by them in a tiny jeweller 's in Pollensa but Fernando had hurried her away saying he would buy her the real thing one day . |
| 7 | things you see , so erm , I thought right well that 's it Ben can have the garage , I 'll go and buy her the flying circus , Joseph can have the bus and call it a day . |
| 8 | I mean erm and sometimes of course you ca n't give them the practical help they need , you know , |
| 9 | First , the merger of two large firms will give them the immediate monopoly power that derives from a large market share . |
| 10 | Business fliers fly with the airline that will most quickly give them the necessary coupons to go to , say , Hawaii with the family . |
| 11 | He explained that children came to Cedars when their own school could not give them the individual help with basic skills which they needed . |
| 12 | I 'll give them the real Henry Farr , and he wo n't just be making witty little remarks about the London orbital motorway either . |
| 13 | And if parents try to pass the buck by instructing childminders to ‘ give them the odd slap ’ they will be disappointed . |
| 14 | If the Commonwealth War Commission do n't know how to get hold of the War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission can give us the information we want provided we can give them the christian name of the person and the regiment . |
| 15 | Notice also that Peter and John did not pray that God would give them the Holy Spirit they prayed that they might receive the Holy Spirit . |
| 16 | We 'll give them the full commission on the full ticket |
| 17 | ‘ And now we 'll give them the unique burn of a lifetime . |
| 18 | ‘ You can send me the odd card if you like . |
| 19 | look at this , please could you send me the following disc the Amiga five hundred , number , any num he writes number every time , one , two , three , four , five |
| 20 | could somebody send me the current squad for this season & also the fixture list . |
| 21 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 22 | Let's do them the other way round let's talk first of all about the visual aids . |
| 23 | Do n't get in yet ple er will you bring me the rolling pin please James . |
| 24 | I fondly hoped the isolation of Gullholm would give me the requisite peace and quiet to meet it . ’ |
| 25 | This will give me the pleasurable task of transcribing sections of two Zep tracks from the all-time classic album ‘ Led Zeppelin II ’ . |
| 26 | If they can change me from one to another by using hormones , they can now give me the male hormones and then I 've got everything I want . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ In that case , why give me the no-involvement line ? ’ she demanded . |
| 28 | A night spent gummed to the plane 's polyester would give me the full story either way . |
| 29 | The electric bite alarms will give me the initial warning and the silver foil will give me a visual guide to what the carp are doing with the bait . |
| 30 | ‘ 'E loves Rachel an' 'e 'd give me the top brick off the chimney if I asked 'im , but 'e 's a worrier . |