Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You may think of me as ‘ Theda ’ . ’ |
| 2 | And in this instance , he is only too aware of the kind of judgements I may make about him as a child reader , and tailors his reply accordingly . |
| 3 | I ought to write to her at some point . |
| 4 | In an extreme case , someone may act on them for the reason that , or on the principle that , ‘ a little bit of what you fancy does you good ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ You must think of her on the toilet , ’ Aline said , and giggled . |
| 6 | It is he — another person , she told herself , I must think of him as another person . |
| 7 | Instead of thinking of society as made up of simple parts , we must think of it as a collection of wholes which together make up one ‘ complex whole ’ . |
| 8 | In fact the secret must remain with me until the day I die . |
| 9 | Now , no more than three of these in a day , and you must stay on it for at least a month . |
| 10 | If the seller wants a margin , he must stipulate for it in the contractual description . |
| 11 | As an islander I can see something of both points of view , and I have been aware of a sense of embarrassment in some of my Faroese friends that the outside world should think of them as ‘ barbarians ’ . |
| 12 | I should think of you for his finger . |
| 13 | The Duke must compromise with them in order to keep his own authority . |
| 14 | We must confirm to you at the time of booking that there is a free or reduced price holiday still available on the departure date you require . |
| 15 | We must organize against them in the wards and in the constituencies to drive this menace out ! |
| 16 | He was aware of how professional he must appear to her in his preparations for what she saw as killing and which he had been trained to see as protection of the innocent . |
| 17 | He took her hand in his warm clasp for a moment and then he said , ‘ You must pour from it at once and lay the ghost . |
| 18 | We are so encumbered by having British literature in our foreground that … one must speak of it in disproportion . |
| 19 | As I said , you must speak to me as if I were my father . |
| 20 | I must speak to you about this . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Well , old fellow in the cellarage , ’ she whispered lightly to herself , though the breath was shallow in her throat , ‘ it seems I must speak with you at last . ’ |
| 22 | For example , the modern female hostage who falls in love with her captor may not merely be manifesting the well-known defence of ‘ identification with the aggressor ’ ( particularly since it is not so much identification with him as submission to him ) , she may instead be giving way to her phylogenetic id and its demand that a female captured by a male should look to him for sexual satisfaction . |
| 23 | The level of market support will decline and , I believe , we should plan for it to be eliminated by the end of the Century . ’ |
| 24 | If sport was ‘ a good thing ’ , then the state should provide for it within the framework of the welfare state along with health and education . |
| 25 | Because this is the world 's future , and we must hurry towards it with open and welcoming arms . |
| 26 | But in 1348 the Earl of Arundel , who was Warenne 's sister 's husband and sole legitimate heir , petitioned the king to revoke this agreement , for it would ‘ disinherit the petitioner of his right to premises which should descend to him in the event of the death of the earl … without lawful heir . |
| 27 | WHEN Morgan Guaranty Trust moved into new offices in whitefriars earlier this year , it was natural that CCG should move with them to their new staff restaurant , as they already had four years experience of our catering . |
| 28 | ‘ I do not see why you should apologise to me in any way , it is I who behaved like a little monster . |
| 29 | There are two aspects of the lift to which comment and criticism constantly return and , before leaving the technological issues to the mercy of future critics , we should return to them for a moment . |
| 30 | The crew of the Kontiki raft were worried lest their balsa logs should sink under them on their long voyage although , in the event , the soakage was not very great . |