Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Acme Transport v Betts [ 1981 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 131 , at p134 , Cumming Bruce LJ said that the Court of Appeal " were indebted to the judgment and tact of Counsel in that neither of them sought to confine us by referring to authority on the meaning of other exemption clauses in other contexts " . |
| 2 | What , then , makes them want to do it ? |
| 3 | There 's something about them that makes me want to see them glazed with passion — ’ |
| 4 | Something made me want to touch you . |
| 5 | It makes me want to kiss them . ’ |
| 6 | Ian is OK — friendly and cheerful — but there 's something about Robert that makes me want to fight him all the time . ’ |
| 7 | Everyone has their own ideas about how it should be done , but if everyone agrees to lift it together , it suddenly becomes a very easy task . |
| 8 | Dr Robert Upshall said copies of the Green Party 's charter were sent to the three candidates but none of them agreed to sign it . |
| 9 | Election candidates in Darlington have failed to meet the Green challenge , according to Dr Robert Upshall , who said copies of the Green Party 's charter were sent to the three main candidates but none of them agreed to sign it . |
| 10 | The men were sullen and never met his eye ; but someone had to organise them , and no-one cared to oppose him . |
| 11 | ‘ Yet no-one thinks to ask me about this . |
| 12 | Why did everyone want to put her in the wrong when she had done nothing to deserve it ? |
| 13 | If ever he tried to do more — to hop or semi-fly down towards them to try to catch them — they simply darted away and out of reach . |
| 14 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 15 | Some of them tried to blow him up , too . |
| 16 | My colleagues seemed genuinely worried by my decision and many of them tried to convince me to change my mind . |
| 17 | Although one of them tried to get him to America . |
| 18 | Running around in a Chevy Bronco with Texas licence plates — everyone has to know he 's working for you . |
| 19 | I see nothing wrong in competition at an early age because it prepares you for later life when everyone has to face it . |
| 20 | On each occasion , he became engaged in long disputes with local reporters , some of whom tried to jostle him out of the room . |
| 21 | Me eat , me want to eat them |
| 22 | Mummy me want to eat them in the high chair |
| 23 | Mummy me want to eat them in that high chair , you staying out here ? |
| 24 | Mama made me promise to feed you before she agreed to go to bed . |
| 25 | She made me promise to destroy them , ‘ if anything ever happens to me ’ , she said . |
| 26 | Before he went out , he made me promise to give you this . ’ |
| 27 | Then she made me promise to get them back to her in one piece within a week and sold me two tickets to a Ward Bond Retrospective at her film club in Ponder 's End . |
| 28 | Other times she made me promise to keep them for ever , to remember her by , and say a prayer She was a bit vague who it was I was to pray to . |
| 29 | They have asked me to write to congratulate you on this well deserved honour , and I am very pleased to do so . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's useless for me to try to answer you . ’ |