Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What people think of the media in general and each medium in particular and the role or roles they perceive them to play in their lives and in society are important preliminary considerations which have to be studied . |
| 2 | Suffer me to go to my infamy ! ’ |
| 3 | Make them account for their actions . |
| 4 | I mean I know from my own personal experience that if you come fly from New York to London and you eat a meal in a restaurant or in a hotel in New York and then the next day you eat one in London , you do find that the services is much slower , for example . |
| 5 | I mean I know in my time when I was a crane driver if they , if one of them did n't turn up dow down at Cliff Quay they 'd come along to a crane driver and they 'd say , take a rope for us will you . |
| 6 | But it ai n't much but it 's I mean I said to our I do n't know how she manages on that |
| 7 | Surely there were many which went at a slow tempo , such as the first Beethoven Modlinger Dance I mentioned in my original article , the rapid-fire tattoos of its French horns ensuring a slow pace . |
| 8 | Two men kissing to music under the stars … or Little David , the barman , would bring out his famous white gauze and feather fans and send them gliding across his sweating chest and face ( you do n't see this any more these days ) — as if the secret thoughts that were normally hidden behind that odd smile in his eyes had escaped and taken flight ; as if , I used to think , it was magic , as if some oddly attractive boy had unbuttoned his flies for you and brought out not a fat red cock but a blinking , blinded , delicate , fluttering magician 's dove , releasing it into the roof of the dark theatre to fly crazily over your astonished head … and above all this was that ceiling of shining stars . |
| 9 | ‘ If you mean I want them to look at my gown , you 're correct . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Well … ’ she said uncertainly , ‘ they want me to talk about our research — into space and time and all that . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You know as well as I do that you want me to come to your room so you can make love to me ! ’ |
| 12 | The family say I take after my mother a great deal in that she could make do and be happy . |
| 13 | This has happened before and no matter what people say I think in my second year we were about 16th or 17th . ’ |
| 14 | What d' ya recall of your early days with your father at Tormore ? |
| 15 | What d' ya recall of your early days at Tormore with your father ? |
| 16 | This first-level playable demo of Hi-Tec 's highspeed hit is guaranteed to bring you out of your SHELL and send you HAREing to your local software emporium for a copy of the full game ( Tapeworm , you 're sacked ! — Ed ) . |
| 17 | You could probably use any part of your body for this exercise , but I suggest you start with your hand , your writing hand . |
| 18 | What d' you think of my wine ? ’ |
| 19 | What d' you think of my plot , Charles ? ’ |
| 20 | Tell me , Elisabeth , what d' you see in his picture ? |
| 21 | The cause of death will now be established by a home office pathologist : Friends of the dead woman say she doted on her two young children and was n't the sort of person to have contemplated suicide — the pathologist 's report will show whether or not that turns out to be true . |
| 22 | Everything I say you twist to your own ends . |
| 23 | ( 'Would you look after my children while I go out and enjoy myself ? ’ 'Would you take on extra work because I am tired ? ' ) |
| 24 | So if you let me take a copy , I 'll give that lease you signed to my company solicitor and get him to go through it with a magnifying glass . |
| 25 | Not that I want you to agree with your colleague , but check perhaps , particularly for a bearing yourself . |
| 26 | ‘ If I want you to act as my emissary , I shall tell you so . |
| 27 | I want you to relax on your birthday so first I 'm going to do all the laundry next I 'm going to do all the dishes and then I 'm going to vacuum the whole house . |
| 28 | ‘ I am implying that it 's unnatural , and I want you to talk to your father . |
| 29 | Simon I want you to read about your home as well |
| 30 | ‘ But I want you to come to my party , pumpkin . |