Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solicitors will not need to be reminded that for them to continue to act despite a conflict of interest is a breach of their duty to the court . |
| 2 | Some mountain farmers were looking more and more to tourism to provide the extra income necessary to allow them to continue living on their farms . |
| 3 | They sold their assets — empty sites , empty schools , council houses — in the hope this would permit them to continue to build with the money . |
| 4 | He stands in the doorway , forcing me to continue dripping in the hall , and says : |
| 5 | Only the decrees of the Council are preserved , seventy-one in all , and nearly all of them became incorporated in the Church 's authoritative collection of the canon law compiled in 1234 . |
| 6 | As they became established , shares in many of them became quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 7 | He makes me change , he makes me want to dance round him , bewilder him , dazzle him , dumbfound him . |
| 8 | Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him . |
| 9 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 10 | Kirishima is nothing like Dana , but he has that male charisma which makes me want to lie in his arms — I feel safer just gloating over his superb body on the television screen . |
| 11 | There is an inexplicable rightness about it which makes me want to look at it for ages . |
| 12 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 13 | Each knows the weaknesses in its own and in the other approaches and therefore debates between them tend to result in predictable discussions within a well-trodden terrain . |
| 14 | And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and |
| 15 | Why do you always force me to go chasing after you ? ’ |
| 16 | " It 's just that it 's all very well to talk about his responsibility and all that — nobody thinks how awful it would be for me to go crawling to him wailing , I 'm in tro-uble ? |
| 17 | Sometimes she would ask me to go blackberrying with her or , as she would say , to open a tin of tangerines with her . |
| 18 | A range of pine furniture ready for me to paint according to your needs . |
| 19 | The rest of Europe laughs at the feudal system that most of them got rid of centuries ago . |
| 20 | When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall . |
| 21 | Visiting friends can be a great help for this , and you can ask them to come prepared with items to read to the patient , or ideas to discuss . |
| 22 | There are many clinical features in common among these treponematoses and some of them appear to go through similar stages and periods of latency . |
| 23 | Both of them appear to suffer from a form of mental myopia in imagining the consequences of such proposals , and I am not here referring only to Mill-type consequences of harm brought about by unwise decisions . |
| 24 | Second , having set up syntagmatic units , we shall observe that many of them appear to operate in a variety of grammatical environments , and we shall have to ask ourselves whether some differences of grammatical usage of a particular form do not merit recognition as separate lexical items . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't know ’ , the Dowager Countess leaned close to Lucille , ‘ why some of them bother to dress at all ! |
| 26 | She notes that a more detailed look at the results above shows that boys are more likely to obtain three A level passes than girls , even though the gap between them has narrowed over the years . |
| 27 | There are unlikely to be any Scottish Conservative Back Benchers either , not only because there are so few of them but because none of them has participated in this debate , apart from a brief intervention by the hon. and learned member for Perth and Kinross ( Sir N. Fairbairn ) that could hardly have been described as serious participation . |
| 28 | One of them has escaped from a particularly unusual commitment — he was once an angel , but has chosen to become a human being , for the love of humanity . |
| 29 | Under the right conditions they come into existence at a great rate , but no one of them has existed for long , and all will be destroyed within a few months . |
| 30 | The job of quietening them has fallen to Bob Burgreen , the chief of police . |