Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone goes shopping in Oxford . |
| 2 | Solicitors will not need to be reminded that for them to continue to act despite a conflict of interest is a breach of their duty to the court . |
| 3 | Some mountain farmers were looking more and more to tourism to provide the extra income necessary to allow them to continue living on their farms . |
| 4 | They sold their assets — empty sites , empty schools , council houses — in the hope this would permit them to continue to build with the money . |
| 5 | He stands in the doorway , forcing me to continue dripping in the hall , and says : |
| 6 | Only the decrees of the Council are preserved , seventy-one in all , and nearly all of them became incorporated in the Church 's authoritative collection of the canon law compiled in 1234 . |
| 7 | As they became established , shares in many of them became quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 8 | Poverty , he defined as ‘ having no surplus ’ , i.e. having the bare essentials much of the time , but nothing to spare to provide for a crisis such as unemployment , sickness or death in the family . |
| 9 | He makes me change , he makes me want to dance round him , bewilder him , dazzle him , dumbfound him . |
| 10 | Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him . |
| 11 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 12 | Kirishima is nothing like Dana , but he has that male charisma which makes me want to lie in his arms — I feel safer just gloating over his superb body on the television screen . |
| 13 | There is an inexplicable rightness about it which makes me want to look at it for ages . |
| 14 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 15 | Each knows the weaknesses in its own and in the other approaches and therefore debates between them tend to result in predictable discussions within a well-trodden terrain . |
| 16 | The council wrote to warn infringing traders some of whom ceased to trade on Sundays as a result of the warnings . |
| 17 | And in fact , I think in recent years what we know as the third world is the fourth , because those oil producing countries in the third world retained the status of being third and everyone got pushed to the fourth . |
| 18 | And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and |
| 19 | Why do you always force me to go chasing after you ? ’ |
| 20 | " It 's just that it 's all very well to talk about his responsibility and all that — nobody thinks how awful it would be for me to go crawling to him wailing , I 'm in tro-uble ? |
| 21 | Sometimes she would ask me to go blackberrying with her or , as she would say , to open a tin of tangerines with her . |
| 22 | A range of pine furniture ready for me to paint according to your needs . |
| 23 | On the one hand , some clients may prefer a structured day with routine care , which everyone receives given at set times , very probably by a succession of nurses . |
| 24 | The rest of Europe laughs at the feudal system that most of them got rid of centuries ago . |
| 25 | In short , a stable and caring society in which everyone can live in reasonable comfort and security and to which everyone contributes according to their means . |
| 26 | The general effect of widespread miscegenation was , as in North American the creation of large number of métis , many of whom became assimilated into the ‘ Russian ’ population of Siberia . |
| 27 | Nothing lies hidden in you . ’ |
| 28 | When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall . |
| 29 | Everyone starts talking at once — some of them shouting and others just laughing . |
| 30 | Then everyone starts to believe in this group . |