Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That was round the time when I first went to see me doctor . |
| 32 | After moving to England , he fought for over two years without being defeated and reckoned : ‘ Ninety per cent of the public wanted to see me win the British title . |
| 33 | ‘ Midge is bringing Angela down in time to see me tee off . ’ |
| 34 | The Parisians would scarcely spare a second thought for an Englishman and be only too pleased to see me twitch and shake at the end of a rope . |
| 35 | ‘ Ah , but I am not a pretty young skivvy , ’ said Dr Neil wickedly , ‘ and dear Mr Sands does not wish to see me walk through the door . |
| 36 | ‘ But you wo n't be alive to see me die ! ’ |
| 37 | ‘ What , to see me cry ? ’ |
| 38 | So that second verse is one which takes up the traditional Jewish prejudices and turns them upside down , one by one . |
| 39 | Through play , and in the world of imagination and fantasy , children relive situations which both bring them pleasure and cause them anxiety . |
| 40 | Bring them tea while they copulated ? |
| 41 | Other humans bring them food , including the famous BACON , LETTUCE AND TOMATO SANDWICH . |
| 42 | He had to look after his grandparents , bring them food and water and re-build the mud shelter . |
| 43 | According to the Office of Fair Trading , there 's evidence that some building societies choose firms that bring them mortgage business in return , so your estate agent may be tempted to steer you towards a building society that he needs to butter up . |
| 44 | Their sins deny them rest and they will continue their nefarious behaviour beyond the grave unless formally exorcised . |
| 45 | Although there are between 30,000 and 50,000 Somalis squatting in the tiny littoral state of Djibouti , its government does not grant them refugee status and deports any Somalis - guerrillas or refugees — it catches crossing the border . |
| 46 | And I 'm hoping that they get that letter , you seeing them weekend . |
| 47 | Well no I 'm gon na open Michelle and Andy 's and they 're gon na open ours I did n't bring everybody else 's cos we co we 're seeing them Christmas Day . |
| 48 | I ca n't remember seeing me dad till I was five . |
| 49 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , seeing me mixing rose madder and burnt sienna in my paint-box , ‘ what 's all this I hear about a new mother ? ’ |
| 50 | The terrace tiles were already warm under her bare feet ; the sunlight , when she looked towards it , stung her eyes and made them water . |
| 51 | The liberal ideas of this group , and the fact that several of its members were known or alleged to belong to the secretive Catholic brotherhood , Opus Dei , made them anathema to the " old shirt " Falangists and the Catholic integrists . |
| 52 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 53 | Was there a secret reason that made them hanker for a new life in a new world ? |
| 54 | Frankie 's very success made them part of the pop family . |
| 55 | For Clarke , football hooliganism developed at the intersection of these trends : the fans have now taken the traditional values of toughness , masculinity , local identity , collective action and partisanship and made them part of the game 's new , more spectacularised style . |
| 56 | With an effort , she made them part , and then her vocal cords let her down by refusing to work . |
| 57 | And he sent for the Bishop of Valencia , and took their vows and made them plight themselves each to the other according as the law directs . |
| 58 | Yeah but I made them non-copper so they would n't . |
| 59 | Fru Gertlinger , the young wife of the gardener at the Villa , recently become housekeeper , made them picnic lunches and every day they rode out early to check their notes and make sure that they had missed nothing . |
| 60 | After that she stood in a hazy dream , listening to the words that made them husband and wife . |