Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My chaplain begs me to say more but I sha n't satisfy him ! ] |
| 2 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 3 | ‘ Profit-centre ’ managers in their turn submit to the iron law of quarterly or annual return-on-investment ( ROI ) calculation , which hardly encourages them to become far-sighted captains of industry . |
| 4 | I think about phoning her mobile but she hates me doing that so I do n't . |
| 5 | For one motive that drives men to commit a real crime there are a thousand that drives them to commit those indifferent acts which are called crimes by bad laws ; and if the probability of crimes is proportionate to the number of motives , to enlarge the sphere of crimes is to increase the probability of their being committed ( p. 94 ) . |
| 6 | Well , he keeps calling me Mr Robbie , because , for some reason , he thinks I resemble this silly character . |
| 7 | ‘ My m-m-mummy thinks I look lovely , Miss T-T-Trunchbull , ’ Amanda stuttered , shaking like a blancmange . |
| 8 | So the third man goes I want ten years ' supply of cigarettes . |
| 9 | If Andy wins I pocket thirty grand . |
| 10 | At Liverpool the Principal wrote , also at the end of 1967 , that within the new polytechnic ‘ there will be complete autonomy in respect of the academic work of the Faculty of Art and nothing that has been said causes me to have any misgivings on this score . |
| 11 | The experience of watching my late husband 's 16-year fight against the degenerative effects of Parkinson 's disease ( one of those conditions which might one day benefit from embryo research ) causes me to write this letter in the hope that all who take part in the debates will recognise and confound these tactics of the anti-abortion pressure groups , quite rightly described by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service as ‘ an attempt to hijack government legislation ’ . |
| 12 | So he has me do that and on other songs he has me play bass . |
| 13 | Adam wants me to collect some things that he forgot , and take them to the hospital . ’ |
| 14 | My wife wants me to do these things . |
| 15 | I 'm often asked if I get sick of making presentations and signing autographs but I always answer by saying that the time to worry is when no-one wants me to do these things . |
| 16 | Perhaps if you perhaps if you hang on a minute , erm well Jacqueline want wants me to answer one question for her . |
| 17 | He says he wants me to meet some of his friends . |
| 18 | My husband wants me to have anal sex , but I find it revolting and painful . |
| 19 | He wants me to have some tinned pears which have come in from South Africa . |
| 20 | It causes them to suffer temporary lapses of memory and to have difficulty in concentrating for a short period of two to three hours . |
| 21 | But the gas also causes them to grow extra arms and legs ( at a rate for the average adult male Vascar of one limb every two months , slightly longer for women and children ) . ’ |
| 22 | That has I mean most of the welfare state has been er it 'll either created or extended by Conservative government so |
| 23 | ‘ You know how Capers loves you doing that . ’ |
| 24 | Not only has she caused enormous damage to the already fragile monarchy but she 's humiliated the man she 's still married to . |
| 25 | Why has she done this to us ? |
| 26 | And when has she done this ? |
| 27 | Has she appointed more members in the interval , or is she proposing to talk to herself ? |
| 28 | We sometimes ask about a person : ‘ Why has she chosen that course of action ? |
| 29 | Has she forgotten that ? |
| 30 | Has Eileen , has she learnt any ? |