Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then make sure you know which they are and check them to see they have not been removed or weakened . |
| 2 | Sally-Anne closed her eyes , opened them to see him lift his hands to cover his face , his head bent , shoulders bowed , his world in ruins about him . |
| 3 | I did n't want them to see me crying . |
| 4 | We do n't as yet have any friends in the street , but we 're on Hello terms with a few neighbours , and frankly I would n't want them to see me putting all these flowers on a skip . |
| 5 | anyway he walked , he was only away about twenty minutes you know he wanted to get the car and for me to drive I thought well er |
| 6 | ‘ I felt for a lot of years I did have a lot to lose , when there was only one way to go and that was down , and when things did n't go the way I wanted them to go I blamed others . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought you wanted me to treat you like a sister ? ’ he threw over his shoulder . |
| 8 | A couple of months later he did come to the Hammersmith Odeon with Bernie and me to see them play I could seethe relief on his face when he realised they really were a band . |
| 9 | For all that , it disturbs me to see him portrayed as Hüsker Dü 's creative force when Grant Hart had at least an equal hand in writing their material . |
| 10 | And she stretched out her hand for me to see it shake . |
| 11 | ‘ I wo n't pretend it pleases me to see you drinking it , Harriet . |
| 12 | well just leave it there because it wo n't matter , but daddy does n't want me to see you see before it comes out , it makes it more exciting that way , want to come and sit on my knee ? |
| 13 | When he told me to strip I refused , saying that I would change my clothes only if he left the room . |
| 14 | Professional television crews , in fact , bring their own power generators with them to enable them to light large areas . |
| 15 | She suggests that the ‘ board ’ money which young people paid for living in the parental household was seen as an exchange , especially for daughters : they handed over their wages to their mothers and in exchange their mothers equipped them to enable them to go into service . |
| 16 | Motivating employees and communicating information to them to enable them to do their work . |
| 17 | As Templeman LJ put it : As between Scherings and [ the expert ] if [ the expert ] had obtained the information from sources other than Scherings , then it would of course not have been confidential in his hands , but , by agreeing to advise Scherings and by accepting information from them to enable him to advise Scherings , [ the expert ] placed himself under a duty , in my judgment not to make use of that information without the consent of Scherings in a manner which Scherings reasonably considered harmful to their cause . |
| 18 | You know , you 've got me to thank she did n't chuck you out . |
| 19 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 20 | The next New Mums group was at her house ( she lived less than a mile away ) and she had phone me to encourage me to go . |
| 21 | The SS man who had told me to find him seemed to be particularly irritated by this information . |
| 22 | When I think of me days of pain and sufferin' here , and how I 've kept cheerful and 'elpful so as not to be a burden , as well as givin' you the benefit of me company so that you could 'ave someone to talk to , well , it 's a shock to me to find you lazin' about with a gypsy woman on your lap . |
| 23 | He opened them to find her pressing him , by the shoulders . |
| 24 | If he allowed them to know he understood German , it would have made little difference . |
| 25 | Her family wrote and said that Medau was Beryl 's whole life and what a great comfort it was to them to know she had so many loving friends . |
| 26 | In fact how am I to know you did n't do all this just so we could be in this very position now ? ’ |
| 27 | Julia loved him for that protectiveness , too , and pulled her hand out of his to let him go . |
| 28 | Am I to let you do this to her ? ’ |
| 29 | And they just had this the er er You know the what was I to say they had their their s scythes to cut the What was I to say ? |
| 30 | The newcomer was ostentatiously dressed in robes slashed with yellow taffeta and bound by a gold cord very similar to one used by Benstede , although the latter had a row of knots in his to prevent it slipping down over the loops on his gown . |