Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I urge them to continue to meet the necessary level of funding to maintain and update where necessary what has been achieved . |
| 2 | I hate it when people cry , cos it makes me want to do the same thing . |
| 3 | X 's secretary , formerly for eight years secretary to Judge now of the European Court of Justice and formerly an advocate who lives just along , came with me to see get the Royal Bank/Univ Alumnus of the Year Award on Saturday . |
| 4 | The libraries are well stocked with books on the law , many of them designed to help the lay person . |
| 5 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 6 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 7 | And what do you say , do you say , ‘ I do n't agree with what that man says , it 's a bad book , I do n't like it or I wo n't read it ’ , or do you say , ‘ it 's probably useful for me to try to make the imaginative judgment to see things the way he sees them , to see the way the world looks like from his point of view , and I may reject that , but at least one ought to have some tolerance and some understanding ’ , and it seems that that 's where the study of literature meets life . |
| 8 | I applied to join the Royal Air Force and ended up in the Pay Corps , stationed initially at Devizes for three months ' square-bashing . |
| 9 | I mean said the other day , Why do n't you pack up this stupid idea of picketing . |
| 10 | Like , you got , I mean put the other side of the . |
| 11 | By the historicity of texts , I mean to suggest the cultural specificity , the social embedment , of all modes of writing … . |
| 12 | Except that this condition clodhopped into view only because I intend to tell the unlipsticked truth to Gill . |
| 13 | I intend to uncover the old boy system where everybody covers up when cases like this arise . |
| 14 | ‘ Although I ceased to need the physical link some years ago , I still have the ability to use it . ’ |
| 15 | The three judges I met included the first woman judge to be appointed in Geurrero State . |
| 16 | My confidence suffered so much that I failed to reach the 50-wicket mark in three successive County Championship campaigns with Middlesex . |
| 17 | The shops were opening and I browsed for a while in one that sold books as well as newspapers and magazines , but I failed to find the American edition of Rodriguez 's book . |
| 18 | I got caught last week because I got fed the wrong line . |
| 19 | I got fed the wrong line . ’ |
| 20 | I wish I was doing more hours , though really , cos like , I got to take the whole day for it , |
| 21 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 22 | ‘ I hate to bring the real world into this , but is your room-mate going to pop in at any second ? ’ |
| 23 | If one has to take a view of the balance between the reinforce-and-stick-with-it , or the cut-your-loss schools , I think I tend to favour the cut-your-loss brigade . |
| 24 | Erm why would I need to use the square root of minus one ? |
| 25 | How I long to see the black kid depicted as something other than the tam-donning , dope-smoking , unemployed gang member , structuring his life around reggae music , blues parties , and thieving , and phrasing his life 's ambitions in terms of one day to the next with little or no positive orientation to the world and an outlook flavoured by prejudice and ignorance . |
| 26 | I tried to ask the Prime Minister , in a parliamentary question , to give details of the additional charters in the various service areas which arise directly from his own citizens charter and to say when each of the new charters would be published . |
| 27 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 28 | It was perhaps because of this , and because I tried to foster the whole idea of positive thinking , that I began to concentrate more and more on visualization . |
| 29 | ‘ I tried to pull the other dog 's jaws back . |
| 30 | Erm , because I was rather sad , I I tried to instore the Rotary Club in the district in taking part , or or encouraging their |