Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [vb base] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I made her face the truth , ’ he grated , laying Isabel down on a bench by the door . |
| 2 | I told him put the bleeding crumpets in the bloody toaster again . |
| 3 | As I drank my tea , I heard her answer the phone : ‘ Terrible morning , can I help you ? ’ |
| 4 | This happened on the Sunday in question , and as I watched him climb the stairs , dragging himself up by the banister , I saw that he was sweating heavily . |
| 5 | He did n't look back and I watched him cross the road , climb a wall and trail away across the fields towards the river . |
| 6 | In all the cases examined with full verbs , the bare infinitive has evoked what could be termed a coincident actualization , and its event is not represented as beginning to exist in time before that of the main verb , as depicted by this diagram of I watched him cross the street : This does not exhaust the expressive capacity of the bare infinitive , however , as we are going to see that it can also express what we will call coincident potentiality . |
| 7 | But I watched her transform the house from being their place — and it had been only a place , child-soiled , functional — into her home . |
| 8 | As we sat drinking sherry together and I watched her acquire the jowled ovine features of all elderly English gentlewomen , I found it hard to summon up my old anger . |
| 9 | I was in the house the night you came back , and I watched you try the french windows , and then go round to the back to find the kitchen window locked , too . |
| 10 | When I came around the next time all I seen was smoke … and I knew we put the final bullet in him , ’ Destefani said after emerging from the cockpit of his winning racer . |
| 11 | so er , but I thought we 've the sun in the morning |
| 12 | I thought I bet the cus I bet the er staff are not very pleased about that . |
| 13 | I said , you 're joking and I said they sell the house to you |
| 14 | And I said I put the fridge on . |
| 15 | I said and that 's why cos Paul said to me , he said , I never hear you moan , I said look you wo n't hear me moan because it 's not that I enjoy the job I hate the job I said I hate the work , and I find it hard work but at the end of the day on a Friday , I know that six o'clock in the morning on a Friday I can go up to the Nationwide Anglia , slip my card in there and I know there 's gon na be a couple of hundred of quid in there with the |
| 16 | We have n't been trying hard to persuade the Garrimperos to adopt different technologies , more modern technologies that would avoid the contamination of the mercury , but as I said I believe the only way of reaching this goal is if we can organize the Garrimperos to have er a kind of er institutionalized way of exploiting gold , not the sort of gold rush i that is being on and on On and off in Brazil for two centuries right now . |
| 17 | I said you know the minor er faults and discrepancies , we er tidy up quite amicably with the area people normally . |
| 18 | I said you read the sign on it ? |
| 19 | I suggested we park the motor cycle and walk from the place des Vosges . |
| 20 | Oh no , they 'll I suggested they leave the window ledge and just left sort of a window that deep along |
| 21 | I suggested he pass the bags to his two lady friends sitting next to him . |
| 22 | Helplessly she watched him remove the key from her nerveless fingers and insert it into the lock where it turned easily , clicking the door open . |
| 23 | She gritted her teeth as she watched him swing the flexible whip between her legs . |
| 24 | She watched him get the pony ready , learning all the time so that she would be able to harness it herself in future when she wanted to drive out in Nahum 's absence . |
| 25 | It leapt in the air as it shot over the ramp , making Rachel gasp as she watched him slam the brakes on , flinging her forward to make the seatbelt dig into her . |
| 26 | She watched him leave the room , her heart heavy , as though she had run a long way uphill , and had not the strength for the return journey . |
| 27 | She watched him leave the kitchen , sighed furiously and then stared blankly into space . |
| 28 | When they were both soaked in the greasy oil , she watched him pour the remainder of the bottle over the rubber sheet . |
| 29 | She watched him hug the child to him , then straighten up , and now he stood glaring at her for a moment . |
| 30 | Suddenly , Molly 's back arched and lifted his entire weight off the floor as she reached her climax The noises she made finally triggered Yanto who , with great effort , managed to withdraw at the last second . |