Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I urge them to continue to meet the necessary level of funding to maintain and update where necessary what has been achieved . |
| 2 | I hate it when people cry , cos it makes me want to do the same thing . |
| 3 | X 's secretary , formerly for eight years secretary to Judge now of the European Court of Justice and formerly an advocate who lives just along , came with me to see get the Royal Bank/Univ Alumnus of the Year Award on Saturday . |
| 4 | The libraries are well stocked with books on the law , many of them designed to help the lay person . |
| 5 | This is probably because they are all adapted to forest or woodland conditions and none of them has developed the close-knit social formations that are characteristic of open-country animals . |
| 6 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 7 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 8 | And what do you say , do you say , ‘ I do n't agree with what that man says , it 's a bad book , I do n't like it or I wo n't read it ’ , or do you say , ‘ it 's probably useful for me to try to make the imaginative judgment to see things the way he sees them , to see the way the world looks like from his point of view , and I may reject that , but at least one ought to have some tolerance and some understanding ’ , and it seems that that 's where the study of literature meets life . |
| 9 | I applied to join the Royal Air Force and ended up in the Pay Corps , stationed initially at Devizes for three months ' square-bashing . |
| 10 | I do n't want it poured over my head from a bucket in a comic that only appeals to the most basic and obvious , nor do I want to read the photo-copied scribblings of an undergrown fifth-former . |
| 11 | ‘ I mean removing the obvious , stupid ways of doing things which grow up within a business . |
| 12 | I mean said the other day , Why do n't you pack up this stupid idea of picketing . |
| 13 | Like , you got , I mean put the other side of the . |
| 14 | I I I think erm a lot of teachers would now look back on those days with er a certain fondness now bearing in mind what 's what 's happened since and the the the succession of education secretaries we 've had since since then I mean had the only one in recent years who I would say has attempted a genuine dialogue with the teachers and tried to do something constructive is John McGregor . |
| 15 | By the historicity of texts , I mean to suggest the cultural specificity , the social embedment , of all modes of writing … . |
| 16 | But it is n't enough to write well ( I mean choose the right words and so on ) to be a good writer . |
| 17 | [ I intend pursuing the other objectives this Autumn . ] |
| 18 | Except that this condition clodhopped into view only because I intend to tell the unlipsticked truth to Gill . |
| 19 | ‘ Maybe , if the game was against Australia or New Zealand Alan Tait would have been preferred , but Mal Reilly is building for the future and now I have my chance I intend to make the most of it . ’ |
| 20 | I intend to uncover the old boy system where everybody covers up when cases like this arise . |
| 21 | ‘ Although I ceased to need the physical link some years ago , I still have the ability to use it . ’ |
| 22 | The three judges I met included the first woman judge to be appointed in Geurrero State . |
| 23 | My confidence suffered so much that I failed to reach the 50-wicket mark in three successive County Championship campaigns with Middlesex . |
| 24 | The shops were opening and I browsed for a while in one that sold books as well as newspapers and magazines , but I failed to find the American edition of Rodriguez 's book . |
| 25 | I got caught last week because I got fed the wrong line . |
| 26 | I got to see the famous ‘ railway station ’ — which was a prop , a facade . |
| 27 | I got fed the wrong line . ’ |
| 28 | I wish I was doing more hours , though really , cos like , I got to take the whole day for it , |
| 29 | And in the morning , yeah , you have to wake up earlier they 'd bring the hosepipe and they 'd wake you up with cold water and you 'd have to have a cold shower and everything And sometimes they , they put , they 'd used I got , I got done the worse and , like , I just woke up cos I felt cold . |
| 30 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |