Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I usually manage to curb my anger when I 'm at home , but at work I often do n't succeed . |
| 2 | ‘ Mildred , ’ said Miss Hardbroom , ‘ you will write out five hundred times , in perfect handwriting , ‘ I must learn to curb my imagination and to — ’ good gracious , girl ! |
| 3 | And then Boy cut back to the man on the bed , who was saying ( actually it was a different man in a different room , Boy realised ; the sofa and the quilted nylon counterpane were in a different colour in this room , though the man sitting there looked just like the last one ) , the man was saying I like your shoes , please take off your shoes ; and Boy cut backwards and forwards between this man and the politician beginning to lose his self-control and saying I would just ask people to forgive me really and to forgive my wife as well . |
| 4 | Right I 'll read you this piece and you 'll have to forgive my facsimile of a Herts. accent . |
| 5 | So he can actually look at and say oh well Queen Mary 's is the place for you to go my friend . |
| 6 | delivered daily do n't you I 'm going to have to go my lunch is on the table . |
| 7 | The third frame begins to go my way . |
| 8 | We we used to have lots , they used to go my father used to put er a a bird a bird trap er bird second time to catch and we used to pluck them and and them and roast by the fire you know . |
| 9 | And he was going again , but when he wanted his clothes to go my mother had cut them up and burnt them ! |
| 10 | When I 'm put beneath the ground , every penny I own … every piece of property , every square inch of land , every stick of furniture and even the clothes on my back … it 's all to go my son . |
| 11 | Despite the decision of the president of the CSIC to readmit my candidacy , the jury , in June 1992 , refused to examine me once again . |
| 12 | If anything had been needed to crown my day , this would have been it . |
| 13 | ‘ To hit my father ! |
| 14 | You see , my father drank a lot , and when he drank , he used to hit my mother , and me too , sometimes . |
| 15 | Apart from the embarrassment of being watched by the entire lounge , I was also in agony and consequently limped out of customs to greet my mum . |
| 16 | Or dress ready to greet my bride ? |
| 17 | I spent so much effort and expense to outbid my rivals , I never stopped for one moment to consider if I really wanted the prize . |
| 18 | I wait to see how long you can control your imbecile temptation to violate my copyrights on this letter and once again untruthfully take words and phrases from it to show your ‘ powers ’ to match those boasted by your kind in the NF and the BNP , whose performances are different from yours only in that instead of using your limbs to physically assault us like they would , you have acted by wearing the ‘ civilised ’ guise of being the ‘ editor ’ of the ‘ left ’ NewSS , and have written to assail my integrity , my capacity to think , my freedom to defend and speak for my constitutionally organised members at the Stratford school . |
| 19 | But at last I learned to know what a lie was : to induce my mother to stop beating me I would lie — I would say , yes , I had lied and was sorry , and then she would whip me for having withheld the admission so long . |
| 20 | ‘ I feel unconvinced that they really needed to induce my baby . |
| 21 | Is there a product to tame my hair ? |
| 22 | In fact I began to transmit my anxieties to Siegfried . |
| 23 | ‘ Does this mean when I go upstairs to bed , I ought to reset my watch when I come down in the morning because it 's got out of step with the clocks downstairs ? ’ |
| 24 | I might want to poke my tongue out at those new cameras as I slow down to pass them , but deep down even I know that they 're there for my protection . |
| 25 | My mother was a cook who could make the most of three-pennyworth of meat pieces to enrich my father 's vegetables . |
| 26 | I am vain enough to want to look good , but not to style my hair and paint my toenails . |
| 27 | I see now that finally , critically , and most insidiously of all , I had started to lose my self-respect . |
| 28 | I tried to lose my self in you as well . |
| 29 | To lose my self … |
| 30 | I am about to lose my way . |