Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm able to hit them because they 're trying to get me . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He would have crushed them if he could . |
| 4 | Erm I 'm thinking that some of them are going to forgive me if I , I say welcome again to you . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It irritates me when people give me phoney information . |
| 7 | Sometimes er it irritates me when they come . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But what they ca n't stand is that I hate them when they do n't behave in their own way . |
| 10 | I hate them as well . |
| 11 | Young , chirpy faces to greet me when I finally made it to Raynes Park . |
| 12 | His leg was supported on a chair , but he made no effort to greet me when I entered . |
| 13 | Chip slept in a chair in the kitchen and was always at the door to greet me when I got up in the morning . |
| 14 | The Princesse came to greet them as soon as they were over the threshold . |
| 15 | I think she must have heard me because she ran off like the clappers towards the quay . ’ |
| 16 | The book has taught me where my imagery was wrong . |
| 17 | I tried to recall all the lessons Tata had taught me when I was a child . |
| 18 | She would beat me , push me as I was going downstairs , and do anything she could to try and harm me and my baby . |
| 19 | The spring garden would not be complete without rhododendrons and azaleas , with their colourful May blooms , but try to colour coordinate them as indiscriminate splashes of red , pink and yellow can be disturbing . |
| 20 | ‘ It will tell them enough to alert them if they 're working for the British Government . ’ |
| 21 | What I 'm trying to say is that while I do n't really like the shape and some of the other features on this guitar at all , and would certainly not choose to include them if I were designing an instrument for myself , it should n't matter . |
| 22 | Well that does throw me because then |
| 23 | The independence which they had won was qualified , and in the long run the king lost little by this switch : he could still tax the clergy — and did so frequently — and he could convoke them when it would have been impolitic to convene the laity in parliament . |
| 24 | One year prior to this she consulted me because of night sweats and oedema . |
| 25 | The father , a South London cab driver , attacked the children when he was granted weekend access to see them after his eight-year marriage broke up . |
| 26 | The tunnels , track arrangements , and loop lines were regarded as among the greatest engineering marvels of the age , and more engineers flocked to see them than any other contemporary achievement , even including the Panama Canal . |
| 27 | certainly , and my Lord my problem is I 'd liked to see them before I cross-examine Mr the er , the next witness cos he , he was the the officer in charge of brochures , er I do n't know whether the defendants can get , the plaintiffs can get them before but er , I mention it now , the second application my Lord , er your Lordship recalls that Mr evidence is at a meeting of , he brought up his concerns about the accuracy of the inflation sentence in the brochure and a board meeting in , no board meeting to that effect has been disclosed |
| 28 | Few scholars have been allowed to see them since they were discovered but now they are being examined , one phrase is causing a heated arguement . |
| 29 | As it turned out , he was able to see them while in no danger of being seen . |
| 30 | The animals may be there but it may not be easy to see them because they are too small ; therefore use the microscope ( Chapter 5 ) . |