Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 He had a feeling that Maidstone mentioned them to vindicate himself in the eyes of others .
2 He tells me to meet him at the magistrates ' court the following morning , tells me to keep away from the scumbags .
3 It was an easy entry into conversation and , after going through the statistics dear to a teacher 's heart ( hours per week - twenty-five : pupils in a class — thirty ) , I asked him about the problems of teaching Spanish here .
4 I asked him about the girls and he told me to offer them drinks , talk to them , spend 1,000 francs on them , and I would be away .
5 I asked her about the changes in her life since the NI featured her in 1979 .
6 ‘ You remember me , I asked you about the meters … well my car was just here on this corner and … ’
7 I mean it about the enemies .
8 So I present this pattern I push it through the decoders and I see that that line 's maybe is active so I put a one in there to record the fact that that logic term er occurred .
9 I make them for the shops to sell , ’ she told Virginia .
10 yeah , so anyway erm , he bought the car in to tell me that , garage down here , five hundred and forty eight pound labour right and that was put on another wing , save repairing the wing , put a new on , so what I did with mine is , I put on a new wing , right , and reduced the labour by sixty five quid to four hundred and five , I make plenty on the parts
11 ‘ And when I make it to the charts , then I 'll have to admit that I will have owed it to the world 's greatest entertainer ever — Elvis the King of Rock . ’
12 no I were gon na do , I got them for the days
13 I associate myself with the remarks made by hon. Members in all parts of the House about the hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) , who has been through an ordeal that none of us would wish to share .
14 I associate myself with the expressions of sympathy .
15 Then , on an impulse , I retraced my steps following the run of the old water washout pipes until I found myself in the remains of what must have been the old boilerhouse .
16 I caught it in the banisters as I turned the corner , ’ I lied .
17 One evening , perched in his landing window , he shot towards my wife with an air rifle and I reported him to the police .
18 I met him at Aunt Alicia 's because he rented half the house , and then I helped him with the horses .
19 Yeah but I want it for the men that 's going to alter the gas .
20 I grab him by the lapels , and as my fingers scrabble for a hold I drop my little micro-transmitter into his breast pocket .
21 As soon as I told her about the things that had happened , she knew .
22 I told her about the hops .
23 And I told her about the timeslips , and how I had found myself back in her time .
24 I told her of the storms I had known as a child in America , of the sea lifting the paving stones in Penzance , of the ice storms in New England where each twig , each leaf is coated in ice , and of how , when the sun shines , it is as though the world were crystallised , as though nature were encapsulated in a diamond .
25 I told him about the sunsets , when the Jungfrau had turned pink and I was the only person on the Aletsch .
26 I told him about the frogs and all he could think of was socks ! ’
27 Remember that thing I told you about the bones the other night ?
28 I told you about the pains , ’ — she is holding her stomach — ‘ and the thing I ca n't bear is this week the children have them too . ’
29 I learnt something of the joys , frustrations and bitterness of their lives .
30 Frankie read his tattered old comic and I busied myself with the crocks .
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