Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [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 And then they would walk for them do you see , do their way up for them .
4 ‘ Something might have happened between them to make him lose his temper . ’
5 And she stretched out her hand for me to see it shake .
6 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 .
7 He had difficulty sleeping and sometimes would call out in the night for me to help him light his pipe .
8 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 ) .
9 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 .
10 Neither of them saw him go .
11 If you do try out any of them let us know how you got on .
12 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 .
13 How many of them did they get out , done ?
14 At none of them did I seem to do well .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 So which one of them do you want the er advisor to go in with ?
18 But this kid goes haywire and a lot of them do I mean he 's all crash bang wallop is n't he ?
19 waiting until you call on one of them to help you relax .
20 Julia loved him for that protectiveness , too , and pulled her hand out of his to let him go .
21 It 's only because he wants to prevent the bomb going off that this belief of his makes him shoot .
22 I think it 's so generous of you to let him stay on here . ’
23 ‘ Thanks , Dad , that was jolly sporting of you to let me have first cast .
24 ‘ It was kind of you to let me know .
25 By 19 November he had the whole amount , 30 francs , from Theo , and was writing to say how kind and humane it was of him to let him have the ticket money .
26 So it was really stupid of him to let you catch him after all .
27 He played a very happy part in my childhood and just the thought of him makes me smile even today .
28 Just the thought of it made him feel unclean .
29 He did not say , but looked , that the sight of it made him feel sick .
30 The sight of it made him whimper like a child and fall to his knees again .
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