Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something about them made him feel deeply afraid , but he knew that he could n't just stand there . |
| 2 | There 's usually just enough rightness about them to make you feel guilty but not quite enough to stop one feeling resentful and baffled as well . |
| 3 | ‘ So , for whom do you produce these avant-garde designs of yours ? |
| 4 | He was issued with a ‘ Soldier 's Catechism ’ which asked , ‘ What side are you on and for whom do you fight ? ’ |
| 5 | And then they would walk for them do you see , do their way up for them . |
| 6 | ‘ Something might have happened between them to make him lose his temper . ’ |
| 7 | And she stretched out her hand for me to see it shake . |
| 8 | But for the long term , for me to let her carry on thinking that way would be stupid , I 'd be starting another one all over again . |
| 9 | He had difficulty sleeping and sometimes would call out in the night for me to help him light his pipe . |
| 10 | This produces the effect of a " coincident actualization " observed in sentences such as I saw him swim across the river , which can be depicted as : With auxiliaries , the connection between the infinitive and the verb with which it is in syntactic relation is much more intimate : the auxiliaries used with the infinitive do not merely evoke some other event whose support coincides in time with that of the infinitive — they qualify the very incidence of the infinitive 's event to its extra-verbal support , as actual ( do auxiliary ) or potential ( the modals ) . |
| 11 | I 'm very glad to see that there 's quite a lot of nurses here , and I presume that quite a lot of those are women nurses , and I think that this is terribly important , and I think a useful thing with this new service could do is to go out and talk for instance to the meetings of women 's organisations , to old peoples ' clubs in the afternoon , and actually ask people what they would like , and get them talking in a nice informal way , rather than waiting for somebody to let them know what they think , because I do n't think they 're going to get it . |
| 12 | What change of circumstances had come about which made them take an entirely different view ? |
| 13 | It was nice of them to let me join in , they were very patient , but you could see they were itching for a good game and I 'm just hopeless . |
| 14 | Neither of them saw him go . |
| 15 | If you do try out any of them let us know how you got on . |
| 16 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 17 | How many of them did they get out , done ? |
| 18 | At none of them did I seem to do well . |
| 19 | Only when it became totally apparent that she would never reform and was bent on self-destruction for both of them did he leave her for the younger and more stable Lauren Bacall . |
| 20 | In all of these cases special considerations , which I have elaborated , serve to limit what is thought to be appropriate treatment ; but in none of them do we consult the recipient 's point of view , for there is no such view to be had . |
| 21 | So which one of them do you want the er advisor to go in with ? |
| 22 | But this kid goes haywire and a lot of them do I mean he 's all crash bang wallop is n't he ? |
| 23 | waiting until you call on one of them to help you relax . |
| 24 | Julia loved him for that protectiveness , too , and pulled her hand out of his to let him go . |
| 25 | It 's only because he wants to prevent the bomb going off that this belief of his makes him shoot . |
| 26 | The sentence He was seen to walk away , on the other hand , seems to reformulate passively the content of Somebody saw him walk away , with see being apparently used in its perceptual sense in both the active and the passive constructions . |
| 27 | He was that one , of course , and the night found him sitting in the back of a purring car being driven around the frosty streets of London in search of somebody to help him finish the story . |
| 28 | Buzz spent the cab ride reminiscing about those times , some grim and some sad , but all of which made her smile . |
| 29 | The Hindus , he knew , at least refrained from eating pigs ( unlike the Chinese or the disgusting Christians of Byzantium ) , but he had heard that they had other habits the very thought of which made him swoon . |
| 30 | It had two wings , one of which made me think of a church . |