Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 2 | I am sorry to worry you over this but the result of the present system is that John Merer and I are barely on speaking terms . |
| 3 | ‘ The gaffer was ready to hammer us for that but after this result I asked , where are we going next Thursday — a nightclub ? |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not going to shoot you with this or anything else . |
| 5 | we 're not , like , intending to sell it at all but |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't want to burden you with this but you 'd soon have wondered why Mackie did n't come . ’ |
| 7 | In fact , the trick that you need to learn to help you with this and all other movie making is to think in sequences . |
| 8 | Some people prefer not to use them at all and remove them . |
| 9 | Er and erm I used to put it in this and go to out into the mess room outside where they there was a cook and it was a very grand name for a person you know , a cook . |
| 10 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 11 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 12 | ‘ A clergyman of the neighbourhood , who was so obliging as to accompany me in this and several other rambles amongst these mountains , formed the wild idea of attempting to climb apparently up the face of the precipice , and I , eager in my pursuit , did not object to the adventure . |
| 13 | It is best not to build it at all but to imagine how it would work . |
| 14 | And they used to count it like that and every hundred they stick a pin in see . |
| 15 | I am very sorry to trouble you with this and I am most grateful to you for having returned the documents so promptly . |
| 16 | Yeah , he had to sing it like that and then , then there 's , there 's only two of them , you know and erm , the , er , other , the other one , he 's a black man yeah , and he goes who 's that big gorilla in the back and he 's pointing to me . |
| 17 | I rather hoped I would n't have to face you with this but thanks to your belief that I 'm somehow responsible for Eddie 's death you force my hand . |
| 18 | He knew that among his people no respectable girl would expect anyone to marry her after that and that the parents would be only too glad for him to keep her . |
| 19 | I think I prefer to get it like that and , instead of having a whole onion it 's better when , they 're , the big ones like they are bit too big are n't they ? |
| 20 | Now they could then say well that particular group of people , if they looked at this evidence that I 've got , would want to say this about it and they would want to change it in such and such a way , and there 's another group of people who perhaps have rather different views on what history might be doing and they would view the evidence and argue about it in this way . |
| 21 | ‘ I had to take him on more or less from the first . |
| 22 | I managed to dissuade her from that and we settled on lunch together the following day . |
| 23 | then you probably have to take it from that and I think you 'll find there 's a weeks work on there . |