Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not long before he 's trying to explain the telepathic communities that will flourish after the apocalypse to me and offering this example : ‘ It 's like when you fancy someone , and you know you 're going to go with that person . |
| 2 | The key to success is to be able to recognize the different behaviours in yourself , to control them and to use this knowledge to develop your relationships . |
| 3 | Now a lot of people when that was first mentioned said ‘ I do n't need that , it 's all right you can look at them if you want to ’ , but afterwards , half-way through their course , they wanted to know that they were theirs and other people would n't see them and have this reassurance that if they wanted to watch it and then wipe it blank , or if they wanted to wipe it blank without ever having seen it themselves , they could do that and no-one was going to ask ‘ What 's going on ? ’ . |
| 4 | It was because not for anything in the world would she have disturbed him and missed this spectacle . |
| 5 | Pip falls instantly in love with her and remains this way for quite some time . |
| 6 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 7 | She , Cecilia , though a loving , kind and humble woman , touched no one if she could help it and thought this reserve might be connected with her never having been much for sex . |
| 8 | So when you remove a young child 's hand from an electric plug you tap the back of it and accompany this action with a firm NO . |
| 9 | ‘ You ca n't leave it and have this thing festering about his mother . ’ |
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