Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What change of circumstances had come about which made them take an entirely different view ? |
| 2 | In his valley the ploughing 's started and , because his family 's small , no one could be spared to come with him to help him fetch his wood and water — and although the water 's nearby , the firewood 's half a day away . |
| 3 | Your power is great — and there I am not equal to you — but it lies in me to make you smile , and if you and I never meet , then this play of love remains incomplete . ’ |
| 4 | Simon Murison-Bowie has asked me to write to you to let you know the current situation regarding the Wonderworld artwork . |
| 5 | Why invent a mystery force that magically knows how hard to pull on everything to make them go round the same path when you could say that everything has to go in that curved path because that is how the space itself is curved ? |
| 6 | do you see what I mean , right , sit and re-question close , right you can close them on ee do you want to include the extra window for two hundred pound , you follow me you 've hit them with a price you want to close them , right and you sit and do the paperwork and you just say to them do you want me to include the extra window for two hundred pounds because you 've already said to them you , you give an extra , do you follow me ? |
| 7 | So I either have it in the kitchen or I go and I say to them do you want a cup of tea ? |
| 8 | You know people say to us do you suffer from nerves going on stage and we do n't , not even in the slightest . |
| 9 | If I say to you do you think that 's through |
| 10 | What d' ya think of what d' ya think of what d' ya think of Kim ? |
| 11 | What d' ya think of what d' ya think of what d' ya think of Kim ? |
| 12 | What are you gon na do about it do you know ? |
| 13 | how do you feel about it do you think you 're going to get the hang of this |
| 14 | But it ma , it 's a it leaves you this interesting situation in that if they had moved in what do you do , cancel the lease and get them out ? |
| 15 | Only seven years later the pope recovered this stone in the new tiara presented to him to make him look the part while anointing Napoleon as self-crowned Emperor . |
| 16 | As Doreen says to me did I see the one on number six ? |
| 17 | says to me did you get |
| 18 | So he 's away to Kilkeel and I says getting engaged and he says to me do you want rid of me or something ? |
| 19 | Erm with wi with the big national AIDS campaign , do you have you er with the prostitution , have you had anything to do with if if you ever speak to them do you say , you know , yo Look there 's AIDS , can you do something ? |
| 20 | And looking at her made him feel old too . |
| 21 | It 's very dangerous because lots of people looking at you makes you think more and more about the image that you 're presenting to the world . |
| 22 | He goes , go on then , I pre got it on Simon I reckon it must of thought about it do you know why ? |
| 23 | I 'm very glad to see that there 's quite a lot of nurses here , and I presume that quite a lot of those are women nurses , and I think that this is terribly important , and I think a useful thing with this new service could do is to go out and talk for instance to the meetings of women 's organisations , to old peoples ' clubs in the afternoon , and actually ask people what they would like , and get them talking in a nice informal way , rather than waiting for somebody to let them know what they think , because I do n't think they 're going to get it . |
| 24 | When I arrived ten minutes before her at one stop ( advance means a few minutes ahead as well as two months ) I found that two ladies in wheelchairs had positioned themselves at the foot of the stairs and were pleading with everyone to let them stay and shake hands with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 25 | A silly little bitch she had been , pleading with him to let her live , and promising that if he did she would say nothing and leave Vienna at once , never to return . |
| 26 | I 'm bloody sure I would n't of paid it no way , er , thing is though you see when you first look at it , it do n't look a bad car , but when you start studying it closely you start to see just exactly what problems it 's got with it did you point out the faults on it then ? |
| 27 | I 'm going to bring in some illuminated medieval books for you to have a look at , because what you 're going to do is to write this out in best on special paper using illuminated letters and if you 're very good we will try to get them laminated so that we can keep them as an example of what year seven students can produce as their best work , to say to everybody , hey look at this , this is very good , now we ca n't do that if I give you a sheet of A four paper and you manage to fill less than a quarter of that space , so you 're going to need a minimum of ten different things that you would like to say you think are important , you believe are important , you believe they 're valuable and your homework over the next week is to finish that list if you want it to rhyme , well yes you can work on it to make it rhyme , if you want to have what we call rhyming couplet , er just one moment I have n't said clear away . |
| 28 | His range of roles has crossed many more adventurous and challenging boundaries , from the devil himself through to perhaps his now most famous portrayal of The Joker in Batman and when Nicholson insists that everything he does on screen is in some way autobiographical , delves into what makes him tick find contradictions and confusion at almost every turn . |
| 29 | I mean , if I 'd had anything to do with it do you think I 'd have left my van here and come back — ’ |
| 30 | The dreadfulness of what I am doing to her , what I am going to do to her makes me feel ill . |