Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " 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 | ‘ Yet no-one thinks to ask me about this . |
| 3 | Why did everyone want to put her in the wrong when she had done nothing to deserve it ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Although one of them tried to get him to America . |
| 6 | Mummy me want to eat them in the high chair |
| 7 | Mummy me want to eat them in that high chair , you staying out here ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 10 | But nothing has prepared us for this divine outburst . |
| 11 | They have asked me to write to congratulate you on this well deserved honour , and I am very pleased to do so . |
| 12 | Luckily they seemed to want , even need , to talk , so it was n't necessary for me to try to head him onto other subjects as I had felt might possibly have been the case . |
| 13 | I told her that you had sent me to try to trap her into making unwary and unguarded statements and unwittingly to betray herself . |
| 14 | But no-one has dismissed it as a rogue poll . |
| 15 | A clergyman in his late thirties recently said : ‘ No-one has asked me about my praying since I was ordained ! ’ — whether he wanted anyone to ask him was not clear , but the implication was that he needed it ! |
| 16 | No-one has thought it worth their while to eulogize or anathematize schools like Burleigh . |
| 17 | No-one has set me above this people . |
| 18 | ‘ Then you would n't say no if I asked to take you in my arms under the pretext of inviting you to dance . ’ |
| 19 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
| 20 | I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face . |
| 21 | Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that . |
| 22 | I 've lots of ideas for these , but as they are all quick to make I 've left them for next month when you have finished your special presents and they are neatly folded and packed away in all their glory of tissue paper and gold and silver ribbons . |
| 23 | Erm I mean tell me in more depth how it works |
| 24 | So do n't let's moan about , I mean thank you for your point , I 'm not putting you down , but let , let's sort of get up there and , and go for it if we , if we feel we can contribute . |
| 25 | No , I mean put it under your jumper . |
| 26 | put it in the vice , I mean put it in the vice whether , whether it just pull the head off I do n't know but it came out |
| 27 | Yes , just on the sub-ward level , of course there 's really , there 's a lot more investigations to go into targeting the resources , just I mean to target them in a city by having these standard mortality ratios for wards , but they 're all below ward level , and target the specific areas . |
| 28 | ‘ There is a big future for this club , and I intend to put it on the right footing . |
| 29 | Your brother 's death left you heiress to Tracy Castle , and I intend taking it for the King . ’ |
| 30 | I intend to do it in a proper English accent ( You can do it ) . |