Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Small spaces help residents to communicate with each other — and also give them somewhere to escape to . |
| 2 | In addition to using casual workers to man up for " events " , we also found cases of organisations bringing them in to cope with peaks in what might be termed their " more continuous " activities . |
| 3 | The nicest thing about my dad is that he often takes me along to work with him . |
| 4 | A fish and chip shop owner called me in to deal with the lower half of a long-skirted ancestor which often glided through her kitchen . |
| 5 | Then she held the light still and drew me down to kneel beside her . |
| 6 | I usually to start by saying Chairman , have you followed that ? |
| 7 | I know but when I 'm with her a lot I really to talk about like is about other people so like I do it as well but like I do n't |
| 8 | And why , thought Adam , sleepless and sore in his damp cloak under the trees , why am I here to fret at it still ? |
| 9 | ‘ Am I there to speak on behalf of the council ? |
| 10 | Am I there to speak on behalf of me ? |
| 11 | You need not hurry them away to lie in your sewing-basket or run upstairs to fold them under your handkerchiefs . |
| 12 | Knox recounts how they piled up a great heap of stones at the place of martyrdom , and no matter that the priests had them removed , and threatened excommunication , they were always replaced , until one night the papists found the permanent solution , taking them away to build into walls . |
| 13 | My family constantly warned me not to go into catering . |
| 14 | so , I know , I never ended up where I said I was going either cos erm I met this Rus Russian lady and her sister was with her as well and we were er , she advised me not to go to Russia for the time being because it will be over , she said there 's gon na be a lot of blood shed |
| 15 | She would get really worried and stroke my forehead and plead with me not to talk about dying . |
| 16 | He told me not to talk about the matter outside as it might not be to his interests if the facts were made generally known . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps this will teach me not to think about being beautiful , ’ she said sadly . |
| 18 | When she pulled herself out of bed and went to the bathroom , instructing me not to look at the sketch , I got the chance to examine it . |
| 19 | ‘ But he has kept goal exceptionally well , not only this season but for two or three years and it would be unwise for me not to look at him . ’ |
| 20 | Travis , remind me not to get on the wrong side of you again . |
| 21 | ‘ Tommy Boyle told me not to throw in the towel , ’ she said . |
| 22 | But just don , t expect me not to whinge about it . |
| 23 | ‘ Then you 'd have had another reason for me not to stay on board . ’ |
| 24 | but , she prefers for me not to stay on the phone for very long she does |
| 25 | I do n't listen , I mean sorry , I 've got a frog in my throat , erm like , she tells me not to stay on the phone too long , but sometimes I have to , okay , not , not necessarily just as a conversation , but , homework and stuff |
| 26 | The AOC 's personal assistant was an airman like myself and he warned me not to stand on the mat in front of his desk . |
| 27 | Alan says : ’ I was amazed at the advice I received because their Mitchell Philpott told me not to transfer at least for the time being . |
| 28 | I quote the following from that summary , but for the sake of brevity I omit some of the references to authority and the elaboration of point ( 3 ) and the whole of point ( 4 ) , which seem to me not to assist in the present case : |
| 29 | He did not know that Mme Bluot had asked me not to walk in that direction ( ‘ It is a street so disreputable , madame , it could lead a child astray . ’ ) , |
| 30 | A couple of years earlier , when I was having a bad patch and went to him for a reassuring chat , he had told me not to worry about it . |