Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm also thrilled by the terrific response to my December letter , when I asked you to pinpoint the key issues that you believe should be tackled by the Government in order to put Britain back on the right tracks for 1992 : not surprisingly , childcare comes high on your list , as it does in the questionnaire . |
| 2 | I mean they put the strangest shops on Road . |
| 3 | so they , I mean they flogged the cheaper lines and they could have through the door like |
| 4 | Mind you the firm that was in there Blue Bag I mean they abused the bloody place they did . |
| 5 | Yeah I mean we did the fourth but |
| 6 | because I think er Mr 's motion is erm , similar to er Rosie 's erm except that , I mean I think what we 're actually saying is that we do actually have a number of waste planning sort of policy panel , er and this is something look , needs to be looked at in , in some detail , erm and if we just do it via a sort of straight report to the Environment Committee and I mean look at the sort of agenda we 've got today er you know how much time can we spend on the details so I mean I hope the Liberal Democrats would accept that erm yes it will obviously come to the Environment Committee eventually er but that it actually should go to the Waste Planning to the Policy panel and other bits no doubt to the Waste Disposal sort of Sub Committee for this is the policy er committee of course . |
| 7 | I mean I knew the first day I drove in the dark was the first night we had the car and it was most odd experience |
| 8 | all through the weekend he was n't sleeping at night , he was up all night and he was just really yeah , he was really naughty and he was erm , I mean I had the other two erm , |
| 9 | I mean I had the same problem when I was secretary . |
| 10 | So it 's alright I mean I paid the whole bloody lot to them , I did n't |
| 11 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |
| 12 | I mean you got the ten you wanted . |
| 13 | I mean you like the ordinary houses are , there 's no room and you could not bend the coffin with a person in it so they would have to take the window or the bedroom or wherever the corpse was |
| 14 | Yes but I mean it 's like the lady said , I mean you get the same thing all the time . |
| 15 | I mean you did the same with that as you did with the other did n't you ? |
| 16 | but really I mean you need the odd week at home do n't you really to sort of do bits to it , you ca n't work and do it |
| 17 | I mean he does the big functions and he does n't do a bad job |
| 18 | You know he obviously sees rich peasants as you know a more er unattractive class of peasant , I mean he sees the poor peasants as the real er vanguard of the revolution , the people who have done all the work and erm sacrificed er security at an early stage |
| 19 | Even as I shouted I sensed the utter absurdity of my words and the ludicrous figure I presented , a slovenly , plump young man , so obviously clumsy and ineffectual , rabbit 's ears of shirt-tail escaping from my waistband . |
| 20 | I expect you remember the lovely lake at the end of our road , and the rides in the sampan , or going out with the Moothams when Maria used to say , at the end of an excursion , ‘ Rachel never stops talking ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I expect you have the wrong kind of sight . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I expect he timed the whole thing with a stopwatch , ’ said Greg . |
| 23 | I found I had the best of both worlds . |
| 24 | I helped him pull the two long wicker chairs from the far end of the terrace . |
| 25 | ‘ And while , in due course , we should provide Thomas with a brother or a sister , on this occasion I suggest we take the appropriate precautions . |
| 26 | When I suggest we head the other way , for Greenwich , Des shakes his head . |
| 27 | ‘ Then I suggest we do the best we can for the next several hours . |
| 28 | All our futures — although I suggest you save the main celebration for chapel , on Sunday . ’ |
| 29 | If you can not resolve the matter amicably , I suggest you contact the local council — not with a view to making a direct complaint , but just to establish what the regulations are concerning open fires . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm going to get dressed in the twins ’ room , and I suggest you do the same in here , as quickly as possible . |