Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb infin] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 2 | ‘ She 's seen me like this every morning for over a week now , ’ he told her , giving her a cheeky grin , ‘ and still she loves me . ’ |
| 3 | You 've seen me , she 's seen me flirt all the time . |
| 4 | Whoever let you imagine such a thing ? ’ |
| 5 | Allison later told Mark : ‘ My first reaction when you told me about your work was to withdraw , and let you have all the credit , but that would have been Quixotic . ’ |
| 6 | It was the first time Harry had ever seen him do such a thing for himself , but then he had heard that staff were far less easy to come by since the war . |
| 7 | People wept , and my mother embraced my father ; I had never seen her do such a thing before . |
| 8 | Now let us assume that the money supply increases . |
| 9 | Let us consider such a chain of consequence , spanning small to large . |
| 10 | Let us consider such an ethnographer as an invisible witness to a particular speech event . |
| 11 | Let the local authorities control , for example , the business rates ; let us remove all the capping powers and increase the quality and accountability of locals services by making people locally responsible to those who elected them . |
| 12 | ‘ What made you come all the way out here just for a drink anyway ? ’ enquired Sheila . |
| 13 | It 's just that I 'm surprised to hear you make such an admission — ’ |
| 14 | To help you structure such a report . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't let Paul hear you suggest such a thing ! |
| 16 | She smiled gently at him , letting him see all the love she had kept hidden from him before . |
| 17 | If ‘ that bloody woman ’ had heard him utter such a curse , she would have ripped into him with a piece of her mind , then he would have whipped her with his tongue , then this sop of a man before him would have got between them , and afore you knew it , there would be a full-scale war waging — and in the heat of the moment he might foolishly betray his devious plans to boot the lot of them out of his house and out of his life . |
| 18 | And I 'd like to see him get all the way back here because … just because . ’ |
| 19 | The letter continues : ‘ As the barrier to the central portion of the car park has now been removed , what guarantee do I have that a parking space will be available ? |
| 20 | How did I make such a mistake ? " |
| 21 | And I remember being called to Caernarfon once , during the time , asking me why did I have such a lot of surplus of points . |
| 22 | Phil did I turn that the fire off at home ? |
| 23 | Did you walk all the way ? |
| 24 | Did you do that a lot then , back and forth ? |
| 25 | Where did you put all the paper ? |
| 26 | And what about the French polishers , did you call that an apprenticeship too ? |
| 27 | It was her turn to laugh ‘ Where did you learn such an expression ? ’ |
| 28 | Did you get all the kit for your nefarious trade ? ’ |
| 29 | Do you do this every week Mr Smith ? |
| 30 | Do you watch all the time ? |