Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he asked to see her in his study , a few days after her return from Blaworth , she feared the worst . |
| 2 | " I hear that Miss Potts asked to see you about next year 's work , " said Miss Haines . |
| 3 | Once upon a time , thought Lydia , when I was in love with him , he would 've socked me for that . |
| 4 | They did not realise that three years would elapse before Black 's injuries would be sufficiently stabilised to enable them to be measured by his doctors or that there are factors in the functioning of the United Kingdom judicial system which would thwart him from securing justice in the courts . |
| 5 | I hate to burden you with this . |
| 6 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 7 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd 've given it to you ; I was n't holding out . |
| 9 | So I did n't want to burden her by being awkward about it , make her feel bad about it , equally I have n't really thanked her . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't want to burden you with this but you 'd soon have wondered why Mackie did n't come . ’ |
| 11 | But Eve Pearce is magnificently anguished and smothering as Henny ( this is the kind of mother whose ‘ I do n't want to burden you with my problems ’ sounds as convincing as ‘ I am not a crook ’ did when it come from the lips of Richard Nixon ) , and Debora Weston flutters and fences vivaciously as the girlish killer and literary know-all . |
| 12 | " I do n't want to burden you with my problems . " |
| 13 | But there — I do n't want to burden you with my troubles . ’ |
| 14 | While he was away she never stopped reminding us at the top of her voice that she was n't a five by two . |
| 15 | Many ageing people need to understand and accept the changes in their sexuality in order to continue enjoying it to the full . |
| 16 | The company was prepared to continue using him for up to a year as a continuity announcer . |
| 17 | The British still tend to treat him with a faintly hostile embarrassment : as well they might , since for the past four years , his principal message has been condemnation of their duplicity in , as he sees it , backing away from promises to introduce democratic government by 1997 . |
| 18 | Secular books on the New Age tend to treat it as the latest fad ; the ‘ in thing ’ of the eighties , full of Alternative Types and quaint ideas about the ‘ good life ’ down on the organic , backyard farm . |
| 19 | She knew me as Matt and I did n't want to alert you to who I was until I 'd found out what was going on . |
| 20 | cos I did n't fancy eating it like that and er she goes , I told her give us a piece of some of that wrapping you know |
| 21 | When the council sought to evict him for non-payment of the extra rent he pleaded in defence that the resolution was invalid . |
| 22 | The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term . |
| 23 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 24 | I had just received a telephone call from the barracks which informed me that officials from Horseferry Road magistrates court had phoned demanding to see me about nonpayment of fines . |
| 25 | many and I 've stopped eating them at Christmas when I brought them and I started eating them again . |
| 26 | It was this , his wife had said , which he had intended to gas her with , using the fumes from the car 's exhaust . |
| 27 | According to Gregory the slanders against Fredegund were intended to drive her from the court , thus facilitating the elevation of her stepson , Clovis , to the throne . |
| 28 | I hate to see it like that . ’ |
| 29 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 30 | After spying him through the kitchen window with Mrs Files , so much himself , so much not Francis , I thought I did n't want to see him at all . |