Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to ensure that pupils who have come to enjoy the advantages of the unit do not deliberately fail on a return to school , Owen refuses to readmit them once reintroduction has taken place . |
| 2 | So do n't throw them away colleagues , hand them to any delegate from the Northern Region . |
| 3 | Arthur was just kept bringing me up food all the time . |
| 4 | Erm actually I 've spoken to Ian at erm Newark TEC , and he 's already arranged to see me tomorrow afternoon . |
| 5 | When Ivy went to see her she said oh Mrs Mr came to see me yesterday afternoon he brought another gentleman with him , a nice gentleman so I she said I think they were taking the census , they got me to sign a paper . |
| 6 | ‘ The Professor came to see me yesterday evening , and told me all of it . |
| 7 | At Play In The Fields Of The Lord ( 15 ) Hector Babenco 's lengthy ( over three hours ) but stunningly-wrought ecological tragedy , shot entirely on location in Amazonia , centres on a group of missionaries and a Cheyenne half-breed who set out in different ways to ‘ save ’ a tribe of rain-forest Indians but bring them only death , disease and destruction . |
| 8 | Wives do n't count , you say they look pretty and bring them home bunches of flowers but you do n't take them seriously , their tiny minds are n't capable of grasping anything important . |
| 9 | Now they bring them out ready-cooked . |
| 10 | Most patients reacted to injections of a number of substances and he made them up custom made ‘ vaccines ’ of supposed antidotes . |
| 11 | This enforced poverty made them easier targets for propaganda : if they left with no more than their allowance , they could be portrayed as shabby Untermenschen scuttling away like rats ; if they managed to outwit the system , then they were economic criminals fleeing with stolen goods . |
| 12 | Unfortunately their crude tactics , due to a very low educational level , made them better counter-agents than agents for the Bolsheviks . |
| 13 | You know and and it actually sort of , it made them really sort of think about quality and excellence and su and stuff like that which |
| 14 | Oh yeah I tell you what , cartoons are absolute , they crack me up cinema ? |
| 15 | The week-long shower drives me up ladders |
| 16 | When he 'd parted them both fish and frog began animatedly to flap around . |
| 17 | erm what else did they make them out metals , glass , reinforced concrete |
| 18 | Come on open a bit wider so I can do those , that 's better , do n't want them back ones to go bad . |
| 19 | On another occasion one child asked me why owls flew . |
| 20 | ‘ Sir Alfred was at Goodwood that day , ’ says Rudd , ‘ and asked me why de Graffenreid was blowing us off . |
| 21 | One day while out visiting with Father John a man asked me how things were in my country . |
| 22 | Increasingly , he found himself estranged from Laura , who , in the subsequent eleven years , ‘ never once asked me how things were going . |
| 23 | Oh yeah , we stuffed them twice heheheheh . |
| 24 | I pick them up Sunday . |
| 25 | No , imbécile , pick them up piece by piece . |
| 26 | It does nothing useful , despite what you may think about screen saving , but it 's given me more entertainment watching it than any amount of television soaps — Johnny even celebrates major holidays at the right time ( assuming your PC 's clock is set correctly , of course ) . |
| 27 | Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ . |
| 28 | You know if you make me late Emma , I 'm gon na smack your bottom ! |
| 29 | The only thing that er the only two characters that really wind me up Mrs Mangle from Neighbours |
| 30 | He asked them why elephants did n't ride bicycles and explained that it was because they had n't any thumbs to ring the bell with . |