Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime all those due to appear in the FA Cup third round in the New Year have received a letter from Lancaster Gate reminding them that the FA has the power to throw them out of the competition if their players become involved in mass brawls . |
| 2 | This Christian Socialist , dedicated to equal shares and to soaking the rich ( who included his own family ) , was accepted and frostily admired as an incorruptible thorn in the nation 's conscience , forever reminding them that there was no jam today and they could only expect some tomorrow if they had earned it . |
| 3 | The director-general , Michael Checkland , once publicly reprimanded The Late Show 's producers , reminding them that most licence-fee payers had never heard of — let alone visited — the Groucho Club . |
| 4 | In magisterial style , Green dealt peremptorily with the committee 's inflexible attitude , reminding them that on every substantive issue he had fully discussed its possible implications with them . |
| 5 | She listened while Silas gave them a talk on safety measures , reminding them that if anyone fell out he must lie on his back . |
| 6 | Imagine the situation where employers are now obliged to notify employee members of that rise in contribution and also reminding them that they have the right to withdraw their authorization . |
| 7 | Cross-examined by John Griffith Williams QC , about why he did not stop for the children , he said that he was concerned not to hit them and instinctively moved away into the fast lane . |
| 8 | Thomas Buchanan had to hit them and push them to the top of the rock . |
| 9 | For non-metals if you try to hit them and beat them into sheets or if you try to stretch them you get ? |
| 10 | I 'm able to hit them because they 're trying to get me . |
| 11 | They used to These they used to be a round used to be round you know and not very used to hit them as you hit them with a stick you see , they used to wheel wheel round and round . |
| 12 | He would have crushed them if he could . |
| 13 | ‘ Look there , they are startling and snorting now — you have frightened them and they will not eat before the journey . |
| 14 | ‘ You 'll have to forgive me but I 've never read any of your books . |
| 15 | Ten minutes later , she miaowed if I approached her and it took her several hours to forgive me and to stop treating me like a walking cat repellent . |
| 16 | Erm I 'm thinking that some of them are going to forgive me if I , I say welcome again to you . |
| 17 | It is always hard to forgive people because forgiveness is often seen as a sign of weakness and we feel vulnerable enough after we have been hurt that we tend to build a wall between ourselves and those who have offended us , rather than to have the strength to forgive them and therefore become reconciled with them . |
| 18 | It 's not that anyone 's going to whip me if I do n't do it — but I know there 's going to be double the quantity tomorrow , so really I 'm just beating my own brow . |
| 19 | Oh yeah , that irritates me but , I mean it 's gon na it 's gon na make them think again in n it ? |
| 20 | It irritates me that I ca n't think of enough rare foods I have n't had and have wanted to have . |
| 21 | It irritates me when people give me phoney information . |
| 22 | Sometimes er it irritates me when they come . |
| 23 | Asked whether he is now used to confrontations , he said : ‘ I hate them but they seem to come my way . |
| 24 | Well we 're going to mum 's but Geoff said well I I hate them cos Bobby and Pam are going I think this year he said well if I get fed up doing that evening he said I 'll come home early . |
| 25 | But what they ca n't stand is that I hate them when they do n't behave in their own way . |
| 26 | ‘ I know that PCs call them spooks , niggers and sooties , but deep down the majority of PCs are n't really against them , although there are some who really hate them and will go out of their way to get them . |
| 27 | I was wise in my childishness even then , at the tender age of five , when most children are forever telling their parents and friends that they hate them and they wish they were dead . |
| 28 | I hate them as well . |
| 29 | As I passed the bakery on my way home , Didier ran out of the shop to greet me and asked if he might accompany me . |
| 30 | Young , chirpy faces to greet me when I finally made it to Raynes Park . |