Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] the [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say it would allow them to provide the extra accomodation needed to house all their 300 undergraduates and are prepared to spend £5million buying and converting the building . |
| 2 | I asked the Assistant Commissioner to let me go to Helsinki and he refused . |
| 3 | It was a clear night , but the radar was a mass of echoes and I asked the Belgian contact to give me an estimated course and speed of our quarry , and as a result of this we were able to pick it up . |
| 4 | Following the recent court ruling in Scotland in which a golfer who hit another man with a golf ball was ordered to pay substantial damages , I overheard the following conversation taking place in the clubhouse . |
| 5 | I despise the theological problem posed by the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ , the sanctification of ‘ Guernica ’ , the violent controversy surrounding ‘ Guernica ’ , the Last Supper status accorded to ‘ Guernica ’ . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ I 'm happy I made the right decision to go back . |
| 7 | The 24-year-old star could have left in the summer but insisted : ‘ I know I made the right decision to stay . ’ |
| 8 | Yes I I would agree with that but I wondered , I think perhaps it should be the finance committee , I mean cos I understood that most of these these items are contained within the existing budget , because I mean the individual committees do have have the power to the monies within their own , and I it has it I would agree with Peter that if we have gone over and above the that the committee were working to but I understood that that was not the case , so I . |
| 9 | I mean the only way measure it I suppose is by talking to them . |
| 10 | go to prison is , I mean the only people to go to mountain er was Nepal and they left in Wales and there they orin a region is from making |
| 11 | They wanted to make it work though and they could n't have made it work unless they had had the I mean the right conditions to do so . |
| 12 | Erm but , at it at its worst I mean the worst publicity followed this this incident of a an elderly lady having her fingers broken and and money stolen off her by some some lads in their I do n't know late early teens I think . |
| 13 | ‘ By that , I mean the biggest club left to realise its potential . ’ |
| 14 | Yeah , but I mean the bright ones do the the bypass sheet they have the fractions one , and they |
| 15 | I mean the Methodist Church has launched six new liturgies for communion , as experiments to see how people react to them . |
| 16 | taking it seriously I mean the whole thing trying to get in my bed . |
| 17 | that er , oh course , like everywhere else , like the building of Stansted Airport or the , you know , there was people who were against , I mean the beautiful countryside spoilt by a New Town , so they had these committees and brigadier |
| 18 | I fear the Tory tabloids have made it difficult for those of us anti-Leftists who consider ourselves to be of a more reflective disposition . |
| 19 | I produced the emerald pendant wrapped in the toilet paper . |
| 20 | I defy the eighteenth century to produce anything more English , more full of home and rest , and the nature of the country than my junction . |
| 21 | I trust the Ministerial Committee to make decisions and bring recommendations . |
| 22 | Then I got , did n't I get for Kim that the was the one I got , I got the mini version did n't I ? |
| 23 | I got the old metal detected on , but , of course it could always be a bit of grit in it could n't it |
| 24 | I got the local vet t'run an autopsy on the carcasses . |
| 25 | In my last message I listed the impressive accolades won by you for Rentokil in the past year . |
| 26 | Then I tried the new needle supplied with the machine when I bought it many years ago . |
| 27 | I expect the other sort have a ball — like Bella , ’ she added unkindly . |
| 28 | I expect the poor soul took the will for the deed , if you 'll excuse a weak joke . |
| 29 | er perhaps Tom himself was erm not really concentrating very much but I know when we came back after the Christmas Day , the Boxing Day that is , erm , Tom was quite oblivious as to what had gone on on the Chr on the Christmas Eve , so I remember we c we put our heads together and erm came to erm some arrangement as to who should be invited for this next tractor course and nothing was ever said so I expect the right people went after all but erm it 's funny how when he was |
| 30 | Well I expect the whole thing needs washing does n't it ? |