Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We get quite used to our domestic dog actually bringing us sticks and balls so that we may throw them for our four-legged companion to retrieve . |
| 2 | Mr Rifkind will meet the pair to formally congratulate them on their achievements in the town . |
| 3 | But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations . |
| 4 | they can erm it can affect them in their later life and they hit out at people to show their affection . |
| 5 | Do you have a tit do you want me to your a title do you have er ? |
| 6 | Deficiencies are there but you can counteract them to your personal advantage . |
| 7 | It does n't , it does n't affect me like my dad says it should . |
| 8 | Maybe something will happen that will liberate me from your clutches , so I do n't have to produce your boring designs and do n't end up bankrupt paying your money back , either ! ’ |
| 9 | I did n't want them in my house or my life , but I did want to know what they were up to , and no-one would tell me . |
| 10 | If you agree on the details and choose a theme you can then weave them into your planning at every stage . |
| 11 | You may treat them as your children since they were two years old but if they 're not a blood relative of yours they wo n't be inheriting anything anyway however close they may be . |
| 12 | But though the parts of a complex idea must , in some way , have come from experience , the complexes themselves need not have , for we can construct them from their parts . |
| 13 | Could you direct me to his rooms ? ’ she asked . |
| 14 | The manager has been quoted as saying that the parents who wore Pakamacs in the fifties and sixties will buy them for their children . |
| 15 | The cheapest I can buy them for my dinner is £2.50 per half hundredweight bag . |
| 16 | You can buy them in your video store now . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't like to tell people , ’ she laughs , ‘ but I can recognise them by their smell . |
| 18 | Each season the true 500 elite ( you can count them on your hands with fingers to spare ) develop their skills further as improved equipment allows achievements which a year ago , or even a month ago , would have been impossible . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd trust them with my life . ’ |
| 20 | Shall lodge thee till thy wound be thoroughly heal 'd ; |
| 21 | ‘ Wo n't you introduce me to your friend ? ’ |
| 22 | You can introduce me as your bodyguard … ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You 'll only need them for your school work , ’ her mother reassured her , also trying to talk herself out of her own dismay . |
| 24 | ‘ You 'll need them for your programming . |
| 25 | If you need a full featured word processor — and while you might like the idea of drawing and charting do you really need them within your word processor — and have the hardware to support it , I think it is a strong competitor to Word for Windows 2 and currently in advance of any others . |
| 26 | The big funds realise that , in practice , they can not sell out of most companies they own for they will always need them in their portfolios . |
| 27 | ‘ So he can stay and assist me with my enquiries . ’ |
| 28 | You could even introduce them to your church 's women 's guild and they would not look out of place . |
| 29 | Feeling slightly vexed I decided that all those readers too lazy to write in will be receiving personal visits , so I can introduce them to my favourite topic : ‘ Pain , and how ( and where ! ) to inflict it ’ . |
| 30 | And there is one particularly prescient episode , where a group of weavers attacks his house under the impression that he has invented a ‘ steam loom ’ that will rob them of their livelihood . |