Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] and [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one famous sportsman put it , ‘ Agree to do something for nothing and they 'll tell you where the bus stop is ; ask to be paid and they 'll send the limo . ’ |
| 2 | For example , the thought ‘ They are on my left ’ does not ‘ succeed ’ as a thought unless I can also have other thoughts such as ‘ If I move to my left they will move to my right ’ , ‘ They are substantial ’ ( that is , not a chimera ) , ‘ They are reachable/not reachable ’ , ‘ They are supported by something ’ , ‘ A large opaque object coming between me and them would render them invisible to me ’ … |
| 3 | Anyway when the time came to , to , to stop off for short time everybody had had their turn except the union president and myself and he came to me this foreman and he said er , now John I do n't want you to think what happened between me and you will make any difference about being sent back for . |
| 4 | There 's only the castle grounds that 's a park in the city centre you 've got to pay a quid to go in there on Saturdays and Sundays and I think these trees really matter I am concerned and I 'm going to ask questions about them and I will talk to David about it as well although the leaf stem he can keep himself . |
| 5 | He 's been shooting off his mouth about me and I 'll close it for him . |
| 6 | He 's been shooting off his mouth about me and I will close it for him ’ Lennox Lewis DONALD MACLEOD Lennox Lewis : ‘ The only fear I know inside the ring is the fear of losing . |
| 7 | We kept putting food on the ledge for them and they would go out for relatively short flights and then return . |
| 8 | What , in order to decide whether they 're going to give us the contract what they have asked us to do is prepare a thirty minute radio , sorry thirty second radio presentation and we will re , record for them and they will hear , which we want to emphasise based on how good that was whether they want to take the contract out with us . |
| 9 | And if I may we 'll set something up for them and we 'll try and get the shirt on the telly and whatever and try and get people to remember . |
| 10 | Yeah I said to her if you look up what they were I 'll pay you for them and I 'll have them if you like he 's a real sweetheart he 's a good boy yeah Look what I bought today Tony . |
| 11 | What I do n't wa , I know it 's handy sometimes you think , ah that covers a lot of things for me and you may have come across something yourself I 'll the there is a key , there should be a key to those things in my cupboard , those lifelines things not the same as cha , I 've got all sorts of ideas that you might pick out and say right we can use that as a lesson you might even just say well sod copyright I 'm gon na photocopy that and I 'll use it ! |
| 12 | Come to work for me and I 'll forget about the money you owe me . ’ |
| 13 | It went : ‘ Dear citizens , vote for me and I 'll give you houses . |
| 14 | Now what I want you to do is ask yourself do n't discuss it just write down for me and I 'll go round the table . |
| 15 | I 'll never forget them for what they did for me and I 'll miss them all terribly , ’ she added . |
| 16 | ‘ You two wait here for me and I 'll join you in a minute or two , ’ she said . |
| 17 | Karen had done her bit for me and I would have been more than happy to reciprocate . |
| 18 | ‘ I was training at Leeds yesterday morning and Mr Wilkinson came and said that Blackburn were in for me and I would have to go . |
| 19 | There is no one here who cares for me or will look out for me and I must shift for myself in everything which is not easy now I am big with child and not well as I was with my first-born . |
| 20 | Helmut was going to transfer so much a month into a bank account for me and I could draw it out at an office in the Champs-Elysées . |
| 21 | We are elected by the public to do a job and we should n't be ashamed of the amount of money that we 're paid for it , and what I would say is , that no manifesto in May 's election said we were going to come here and vote for more money for members , nobody put on their leaflets , vote for me and I will raise members allowances by five percent in the coming year , I did n't and I wo n't support that , and you will argue , perhaps some of you that that 's not really what we 're doing , but it look 's like it , does n't it ? |
| 22 | So , in the meantime , I 'll just see how dreadful a time I can have , so that everyone feels sorry for me and I can avoid taking responsibility for my life ! ’ |
| 23 | Should I express a taste for wine he would order half a bottle , or sometimes say outright that it was bad for me and I should drink lemonade . |
| 24 | Which ever way we look at it , its nature 's way of keeping us going , its , its what 's there to keep us surviving as a species , so its , its very clever , the , it worked , worked , nature worked it out very cleverly indeed that we should have this wonderful passion for someone and it should become love and then we should have children and then it becomes a , the whole cycle and that 's , that 's how it all goes . |
| 25 | Perhaps I could suggest her getting someone in to look after him and she could come for half time . |
| 26 | Yeah it 's in there somewhere , and they 're complaining , you know the people who play golf , the golf club are complaining , and the , the Council are saying it 's the Southwold Council , so maybe it 's the Parish Council , they 're saying that er yes it 's our responsibility this club and we must look after it and we must find the culprits and so on , it 's in there somewhere cos I read it this morning |
| 27 | I 'm a bit worried at some of what is saying here erm , which seems to me like wanting to er create bureaucratic structure within a parish that , charts , positioning of everyone and they should know therefore , I just do n't think is , that 's my personal view , I do n't think it 's the right approach at all to a parish . |
| 28 | By this time I was feeling very friendly towards them and I might have said something to the effect : " If you will just mosey on down this trail ( meaning the main road between Cambridge and Huntingdon ) you will come to Alconbury , some 15 to 16 miles away . " |
| 29 | I thought it was Annie , and we 'd go home together and see Marie and they 'd both be proud of me and we could sit in front of the Christmas tree together and guess what the wrapped up presents were , and eat mince pies and all that . |
| 30 | The search had taken it out of me and I must have dozed off . |