Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if I have to wait for you I 'll wait forever cos your eggs are not done |
| 2 | Even allowing for what they would have lost on laundering the proceeds , there should have been a tidy sum . |
| 3 | It is no mystery that a child can feel compelled to judge himself from his father 's viewpoint , although it may seem so if one uses Freudian language and starts puzzling about what it could mean for an instinctive egoist to ‘ introject ’ the image of his father . |
| 4 | Not only am I not prepared to have a semi-detached marriage , but I 'm convinced that if you really cared for me you would have no hesitation about placing my interests first , ’ had been his parting shot as he had left the apartment , slamming the front door loudly behind him . |
| 5 | He wants me I mean he wants to do me a favour , Paul , so he might gi he might , you know I mean he say for us , I mean for us he would |
| 6 | ‘ I would encourage people to visit the exhibitions to see for themselves what can be done . ’ |
| 7 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 8 | So we do n't when he was here last week doing some er alterations on it , to go through what he 'll actually want to make it all new all the way through . |
| 9 | I think she imagined if she did n't think about it it might go away . |
| 10 | He longs for what he can never really have . |
| 11 | Working Paper 2 states : ‘ … even where a service is regarded as one which must be provided locally , it does not follow that every patient must have that treatment locally , it does not follow that every patient must have that treatment locally , if the patient and the GP or DHA as purchaser believe it to be better for them to be treated elsewhere ’ . |
| 12 | That 's the proper place to be praying for them who ca n't wait till Sunday . ’ |
| 13 | You have to work off what you can get . |
| 14 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 15 | Part Two — Working in the ES — summarises the key points you will need to know about what you can expect in terms of support and entitlements from your new employer and other useful information ; and |
| 16 | ‘ Sir , you know we do , though how you got to know about them I ca n't imagine . ’ |
| 17 | The award asks children between the ages of nine and 12 to write about what they would like to do when they grow up . |
| 18 | I believe it is possible to propose an explanation for the intuitive feeling one gets that the -ing form would be somewhat inappropriate here : the author is describing a person who is groping for anything which will reassure her before she meets her angry father and the mere fact that she is able to perceive objects which are familiar to her — when she feels so disoriented that she can take nothing for granted — is what gives her the sense that she is neither shirking nor lying . |
| 19 | Charles and Diana frequently visited their brother John 's lichen-covered grave in the Sandringham churchyard and mused about what he would have been like and whether they would have been born if he had lived . |
| 20 | and say for you It 'd be quite good , it 'd be quite good to be here actually but just to meet them but tt nah show you something |
| 21 | Exactly thirty minutes later , Shannon packed the last two brushes into an already crammed hold-all and glanced quickly round the small room , checking for anything she might have missed first time round . |
| 22 | In such circumstances , it is effrontery that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East and my hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) should be attacked for what they might do , instead of the Government being brought to account for what they have done and continue to do . |
| 23 | She knows what I 've got yet she is convinced that if she looks after me I 'll get better . |
| 24 | cos I says if he looks after it I 'll buy him one with radio on as well |
| 25 | " If you 'll nobbut stop runnin' after 'em they 'll settle down . |
| 26 | It certainly has something of value to offer and there is only one way to find out whom it will suit ; try it ! |
| 27 | It was a more than intellectual comprehension ; and to write of it she must strive to become that meeting . |
| 28 | • If you do n't know of anyone you could share a job with , try approaching employment agencies who might be able to match you up with someone . |
| 29 | Some sort of private grudge would seem to have been responsible ; Do you know of anyone who could have wished him harm ? |
| 30 | I do n't know of anyone who could be described as an enemy of Dominic . ’ |