Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got ta make you for them . |
| 2 | I talked about shooting ourselves in the foot and that 's another example . |
| 3 | When my colleague had said that , with me sitting right beside him , I felt like punching him in the face ; it was that kind of attitude that any campaign would have to fight . |
| 4 | I felt like leaving you to him . |
| 5 | I felt like hitting him on the back of the head with a rock . |
| 6 | The other day , in America , the driver of my car said : ‘ I do n't know how you can leave her , ’ and I felt like smacking him in the face . |
| 7 | and I mean , unless yo , and they said do n't clip it near your throat because it would I felt like clipping it round his throat ! |
| 8 | In her early scenes , Ms Robertson 's vocalising is so strident that at times I felt like strapping her to a chair and stuffing a wad of cotton in her mouth . |
| 9 | ‘ I meant in spotting them at all . |
| 10 | I thought about posting it to the club as my sign of protest . |
| 11 | Dozzell said : ‘ I thought about wearing it for the last few minutes , but I did n't think it would go down too well . |
| 12 | So this I thought about doing something on the erm , the new schools ' group what we when we finish the . |
| 13 | I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take . |
| 14 | I thought of leaving it to you , Cynthia , but you have no need of it . |
| 15 | Remember I thought of having him in Ireland - I wish I had . |
| 16 | And I thought of putting something in the paper , asking anyone born on April the tenth that year at Thorn House to get in touch . |
| 17 | I thought of presenting myself at the docks and saying that my pocket had been picked … but I lacked the impudence to carry it off . |
| 18 | The first agency I went to sent me to a photographer to have some pictures taken for my portfolio . |
| 19 | But I will not mention here every group or Asian immigrants in Britain , nor analyse every family structure , but present what the Asian women I spoke to told me about their feelings and situations . |
| 20 | When I apologised for dragging him into this , there was no bitterness in his gracious reply . ’ |
| 21 | But there was another part of her brain which insisted on presenting her with images of Lotta sharing this idyllic environment with Rune . |
| 22 | But she succeeded in holding it at bay . |
| 23 | You turned round and said , do it in that one , so I 'm doing it in that one , then you changed to doing it in that one . |
| 24 | He thought that the discount for contingencies should be comparatively small and that the £10,000 the widow received from the estate should give rise to a deduction of £200 from the annual dependency for the accelerated benefit that she received by obtaining it on his death . |
| 25 | We had to entertain a very prim and proper Swiss lady the other day and she insisted on addressing me as Madame Professor Wotherspoon . |
| 26 | She insisted on sharing it with Annunziata , who looked even more gaunt than she had done before the news of her son 's survival , and then got up . |
| 27 | As he cried out , she insisted on taking him for a drive in her car . |
| 28 | She insisted on checking you over there and then |
| 29 | She insisted on having me with her , so we moved together to Thrushcross Grange , although I was very sad to leave little Hareton with his father . |
| 30 | She took to following him in her car , being willing to sit for hours outside his house waiting for him to come out and then trailing and following him until he came home again . |