Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should she do a U-turn and sell him the house ? she wondered . |
| 2 | He thought he 'd find a rich one and sell him the cross for a good price . |
| 3 | So I 'd ask you Madam to go along with what I 'm suggesting and make him the subject of an absolute discharge so that he does n't have any previous court er any , any convictions or anything like that on his record . |
| 4 | IT IS not a new idea to take an impressionable , imaginative girl and make her the saviour of a man on the run , providing food , warmth and emotional support . |
| 5 | I declare she 'll outshine every woman in London and make you the envy of every man who meets her . |
| 6 | Let's work together on this one and make it the success it deserves to be . |
| 7 | And bring me the rum . |
| 8 | When my father is drunk and beats me , he does it because I wo n't go out and beg in the streets and bring him the money I get . |
| 9 | If you remember , yesterday afternoon , after the funeral , Francis asked me to lock the studio and bring him the key . |
| 10 | They serve as a valuable corrective to approaches of the kind that a behaviourist view might encourage , approaches which impose conformity on learners , reduce the scope of their participation as persons , and deny them the exercise of individual initiative in the learning process . |
| 11 | I claim a right to live on my land , and accord you the privilege to live on yours . |
| 12 | This means that she falls asleep in the car on the way to the airport and can not be woken except by a party of electricians returning from Corfu , who put her in a baggage trolley and push her the length of the terminal building at speeds of up to fifteen miles per hour . |
| 13 | and send us the cheque back . |
| 14 | Or just complete and send us the application form overleaf , and we shall send your membership card and pack within 28 days . |
| 15 | Or just complete and send us the application form overleaf , and we shall send your membership card and pack within 28 days . |
| 16 | Or just complete and send us the application form overleaf , and we shall send your membership card and pack within 28 days . |
| 17 | Wing and leg it The security , with its metal detectors and baggage searches , would not have disgraced an El Al chicken counter . |
| 18 | Be a pal , Kate , and slip me the copy of Gay News you hide under your desk because I do n't allow it in the library , talk about work , Kate , discuss how we spend £5000 on economics books for the university libraries , tell me about how you 're stopping the students thieving my favourite art books , but please for God 's sake , Kate , do n't be difficult , do n't talk about imperialism and marxism and feminism , I 've heard it all before and said it all myself , twenty years ago before I had a wife and children to support . |
| 19 | I 'm not going to jump on you and seduce you the minute we 're behind closed doors . |
| 20 | An advocate of home rule and agrarian reform , Walsh 's support for the controversial ‘ plan of campaign ’ earned him the displeasure of Rome and cost him the cardinal 's hat . |
| 21 | But I had no idea how to make them so I had to ask my tutor and show him the work . |
| 22 | Our table felt it was worth £20 of tickets for a woman to put her hand up and show him the error of his ways , but we 'd already forked out enough , honest . |
| 23 | ‘ Now then , our Emily , get your skates on and show him the lie of the land . |
| 24 | Then you take out the little plastic box from your jacket and show him the syringe needle . |
| 25 | But he was a kind man and took the trouble to sit with her and show her the hope in the Bible , the comfort and joy as well as the gloom . |
| 26 | So we 'd got to take the card and show her the Mother , we 'd been . |
| 27 | This stimulates the male to lead her to his nest and show her the entrance by pointing his snout into it . |
| 28 | If they want to take it all away in the end and match me up with that slimy halfwit , why then take me up to the mountain and show me the world ? |
| 29 | It is this sense of identification that gives hope to the newcomers that others will understand their fears and actions and show them the route to recovery . |
| 30 | Then get two children and show them the way to cut the rings down the middle . |