Example sentences of "[vb infin] i a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , I want you all to try and build me a decent-sized castle , right ? ’ |
| 2 | Does anyone know of a signwriter who could paint me a decent menu board for my catering trailer ? |
| 3 | She 'll make me a good wife , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 4 | Mother would make me a packed lunch ; Dad deliver me to the bus station at St Andrew Square , Edinburgh . |
| 5 | Food and drink would be brought to me every day from all the villages , six hundred people would be my servants , three hundred men would make me a new suit , and six teachers would teach me their language . |
| 6 | But the fact that I 've never been to England before does n't make me a complete bumpkin . |
| 7 | Just do n't make me a geriatric case , Doc . ’ |
| 8 | Now , why do n't you make me a nice cup of hot coffee , and we can sit down like two civilised adults and I 'll explain everything ? ’ |
| 9 | I thought he would make me a delightful Uncle Richard . |
| 10 | Being restricted here does not make me a special case , though . |
| 11 | Among the delphinium , the snapdragon , the hollyhock and the sweet-pea , on a blanket , by a basket , she will grant me a nostalgic caress — always followed , on Odilo 's part , by hours of snivelling entreaty . |
| 12 | You have hurt me a lot in the past three days , Bob , and I think you will hurt me a great deal more in the days to come . |
| 13 | You must think me a terrible whiner . " |
| 14 | ‘ You will think me a terrible woman . |
| 15 | No , I ca n't do it now not in front of Cathy and that lot , they 'll think me a little slag and I do n't particularly want that image . |
| 16 | Now they would consider me a bad child for ever . |
| 17 | I would be grateful if you would buy me a small house somewhere , perhaps near Bristol where I can find work . ’ |
| 18 | He can buy me a bloody beer . |
| 19 | You can buy me a big Coke bottle . |
| 20 | Can you send me a recent photo of you , pweeese ! |
| 21 | Mollie would send me a regular bulletin of her progress and since May 1986 she had reduced her weight from 12 stone 9 pounds to 10 stone 3 pounds ( a loss of 2 stone 6 pounds ) . |
| 22 | Bartram had insisted that this differed from the candleberry , Myrica cerifera , while Miller had found other authors ranging it with the Liquidambar , ‘ so I shall be much obliged to you , if you can send me a perfect specimen , that I may determine its proper genus . ’ |
| 23 | I am trying to set up a seminar on Ethics in Communications ( which may also touch on more general issues of ethics and management ) — do you have any relevant texts of which you might send me a complimentary copy and to which reference could be made in the publicity for what should prove a stimulating event ! |
| 24 | ‘ Would you show me a little bit of this and a little bit of that ? |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman would do me a great favour if he could kindly confirm that his party , if in power , would spend an extra £13 billion above what we are spending . |
| 26 | Can you do me a small favour ? ’ |
| 27 | Can you do me a little exercise first just to er write down write down what erm of what we 're trying to reveal . |
| 28 | ‘ Frank , could you do me a big favour and see if you can find who this guy Azul is ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I said , ’ Daffodil said to me distinctly , ‘ would you bring me a clean knife ? |
| 30 | He would give me a hearty slap on the back , comment on my expanding girth — ’ Twice the man you used to be , Andreas , eh ? ’ — say that we must meet again ’ for a jar , old man , but just this moment I have to rush , ’ look at his watch , sigh apologetically and shoot off to his next meeting or liquid lunch or whatever . |