Example sentences of "thou [verb] [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a form of brainwashing , or what that pioneer in the study of learning processes , Gregory Bateson , called corrective learning , that information-seeking activity whereby a person attempts to ‘ achieve a congruence between ‘ something in his head ’ and the external world … by altering what is in his head ’ — only in this case it is what is in Iago 's head , ‘ If thou dost love me ’ , Othello says to Iago , ‘ Show me thy thought ’ ; earlier he had said that Iago hesitated . |
| 2 | When on this point , I have pearch 'd thy father 's soule , Ile tender thee this bloody reeking hand Drawne forth the bowels of that murtherer : If thou canst love me then , I'le marry thee , And for thy father lost , get thee a Sonne ; On no condition else . |
| 3 | In 89 , a poem of infidelity ( ‘ Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault ’ ) , the Poet abases himself , vowing to perform all kinds of penance in order to win the Friend back , including never mentioning his name again in case he ‘ haply of our old acquaintance tell ’ : it is over , in the past . |
| 4 | Thou didst prevent me ; I had peopled else |
| 5 | Thou didst betray me to a lingering book |
| 6 | Thou didst touch me , and I have burned for thy peace and growth in mystical knowledge concerned a process of recognition of the nature of God 's involvement with his creatures in time . |
| 7 | It is also remarkable how few of those Willses have allowed themselves to rest upon the laurels of their past benevolences , and how many have kept alive their sense of public duty and obligation in the spirit of Goethe 's awesome admonition , ‘ That which thy fathers have bequeathed thee , earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it . ’ |
| 8 | It 's ‘ Thou hast already and , this being the case , thou mightest as well go on doing it , since if thou doth n't , it might be bad for thine psyche , and anyway if we told thee not to , thou wouldst accuse us of being prejudiced and go on doing it all the same . ’ |