Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 I scanned them once just to make sure Zaria was n't among them and was pretty sure she was n't .
2 I disclose it now only to help you save your niece .
3 ‘ Brian said he felt Jason could do us a job , and I know him well enough to realise that his judgement is worth following .
4 ‘ He tried to say it was too much worry for him but I know him too well to believe that .
5 That had shocked me until I heard it too often to remain shocked .
6 I knew him well enough to spot that .
7 ‘ You 're sure you know him well enough to make that claim with authority ? ’
8 On their third night she ordered him quite roughly to bring his legs closer together and found a way of rubbing herself against his knee while sucking at his neck that made him shudder .
9 She interpreted them quite accurately to mean that her children were under-achieving and the message she took from them was almost always a negative one .
10 Already she knew him well enough to realise he would never make threats he was n't prepared to carry out .
11 She knew him too well to imagine he 'd let her get away easily , even when he learned there was money .
12 You brought her here just to find out if I still disliked her ?
13 She said it deliberately firmly to hide her hurt .
14 ‘ I know we should n't have let him go , but I did n't feel we know him well enough to tell him he was too drunk to drive . ’
15 You do ri well we know you well enough to know your voice though .
16 Did he send you here tonight to make an utter bloody fool of me ? ’
17 It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness .
18 It scares me now just to think of it .
19 But when her hubby heard of her endeavours he hotfooted it upstairs only to discover that the sock where he had hidden £500 was gone .
20 He knew her too well to think that she would allow affection to outweigh her sense of right and wrong .
21 It took her much longer to get to Leominster Gardens , where Bob lived , than she had expected .
22 Keeping that in mind it gives you somewhere else to go musically , and those themes tend to be a little more prominent from an adult point of view .
23 Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action .
24 He did n't actually talk about it to me — I suppose he knows me well enough to guess that I 'd have dug in my heels .
25 He knows them too well to despise them . ’
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