Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] the [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He strode to her , eyes blazing , and shouted , ‘ Why did you specifically come to see me the minute you found out I had my own investment bank ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I think people get even angrier if they think about this precise thing that was done in their so-called formative years that made them the way they are . |
| 3 | I came here today to have a look but I did n't think it would affect me the way it has . |
| 4 | So although I did n't like him touching me the way he had , I decided not to tell anybody . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not on at all for a brother-in-law to treat me the way you treat me . |
| 6 | ‘ And you 've given me the impression you wanted to see me , too . ’ |
| 7 | You certainly did n't seem to like me the way I was ! ’ |
| 8 | and it 's on minimum premiums , you 've got a little bit of a discount there , but again , bearing in mind nine pound sixty might not buy them the cover they want . |
| 9 | This way she could simply wash it each morning and let it dry naturally — start trying for styles and valuable minutes had to be wasted keeping them the way they were meant to be . |
| 10 | ‘ Touch me the way you touch Ryan . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It might buy you the time you need . |
| 12 | I 'm not going to jump on you and seduce you the minute we 're behind closed doors . |
| 13 | Go with her and she 'll shew you the room we keep for visitors . |
| 14 | but I mean you send the package out and you get a phone call er it 's Mr Davies , and then you get card out and then you send him the questionnaire it 's merely a record duplicated on the form but |
| 15 | In the circumstances the degree of kinship was sufficiently close to secure him the support he required . |
| 16 | She had been necessary , but despised , so naturally he had discarded her the moment she was no longer necessary to him , and their single sexual collision was all it had taken to free him . |
| 17 | Similarly in He loves her ; She loves him the form he is replaced by him after loves , while her becomes she after loves . |
| 18 | It cost him the land he had so longed to enter . |
| 19 | Surtees was a good choice , but I never got to know him the way I did Graham Hill , Jackie Stewart and Pedro Rodriguez . |
| 20 | Well I do n't know it the way you two do the work it looks so fine that I did n't think I could see it properly . |
| 21 | And Mr. Hollingworth Magniac , Master of the Oakley , caught it the moment he read Nora 's letter of introduction . |
| 22 | ‘ If I approached it the way I usually work , I 'd agree . |
| 23 | I sense it the moment we are inside the front door . |
| 24 | It 's always interested me the name you know . |
| 25 | That 's why I sa that 's why I told them the weekend I thought at least I 'll have something sha n't I ? |
| 26 | It would give them the push they needed to come out into the open . |
| 27 | sense in which it 's in their interest not to breach this because you wo n't give them the material they need |
| 28 | He said : ‘ The supporters know I have always spoken to them in honesty and when I could not give them the truth I have kept my mouth shut . |
| 29 | My God , my mother used to say : ‘ Show me the company you keep and I 'll tell you what you are . ’ |
| 30 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |