Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [noun] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I keep hearing people say they do n't want to see Ovett running 3:58 because they want to remember him running 3:48 . |
| 2 | I had seen shyness stiffen her into a quite absurd primness . |
| 3 | ‘ I think I 've heard Mark say it before , Father , ’ she replied Eleven times to be exact , she added savagely , under her breath . |
| 4 | What about Port Vale I 've heard people say they used to be a hard team to play . |
| 5 | I 've heard people say it 's great for roses . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Well , no — that is , I 've heard Liddy say they do , but … |
| 7 | I 've had women accuse me of that before now . ’ |
| 8 | All my life , she thought , I have let things pass me by . |
| 9 | Three days after the accident she agreed to let Nick take her out to dinner . |
| 10 | You want to let John see them cos he 's a marvellous artist . |
| 11 | If you want to make people listen you have to do something to get media attention . |
| 12 | It is indeed a case of ‘ what you will ’ in decoding this and all other linguistic signs , but it is Iago who has made Othello construe it in that manner , and will continue to do so . |
| 13 | One of the artistes , as she 'd heard Charlie call them . |
| 14 | She decided to let Maurin think she had swallowed his tale . |
| 15 | How , against all the evidence , all the overwhelming knowledge she had about Guy Sterne , could she have let events overtake her like that ? |
| 16 | Buzz sensed that she had to be careful , she had to box clever , she had to let Adam think she had accepted what he said and would go quietly . |
| 17 | She had heard Ben tell her it was about time , too , but almost too late ; that was when she had stopped pushing the hand-cart and bought Laddie and the flat-cart . |
| 18 | If posture and where you put your body meant anything ( and she had heard sociologists say it did ) , Steve had a strong desire not to be seen . |
| 19 | She had heard people say it often enough — she had even said it herself — but she had not realized what it would really be like . |
| 20 | It was only partly that she disliked breaking arrangements , more that she wanted to let Cobalt see she was alive and well . |
| 21 | Well maybe they 're ignorant about , we 've heard people say I do n't believe |
| 22 | As artists , we have seen shifts int he boundaries of public and private , high and low , inaccessible and accessible and , indeed , even personal and political but the influences of past feminist art practices on these moves is very rarely acknowledged . |
| 23 | It is Claudius and Gertrude who are the main victims of Hamlet 's anger , and everything they do makes Hamlet hate them even more . |
| 24 | By seizing the present , they have let Nemesis seize them . |
| 25 | For Rabbit does n't just want to say what 's true : he wants to make Pooh believe it . |
| 26 | Lifted and dropped his shoulders a few times , he 'd seen people do it when they tried on clothes in stores . |
| 27 | He saw he had made Malm think him of unsound mind and he said quietly , earnestly , " There was nothing , nothing but what I 've told you . " |
| 28 | It does have implications mind you for Paul , cos where 's Paul gon na go ? |
| 29 | The wind buffeted her ears as she wondered again what had made Luke bring her to this particular place . |