Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know he 's doing God 's work , but it will break my heart to see him leave ! ’ and she broke down in tears . |
| 2 | ‘ It 'll be my privilege to let you buy me a cognac . |
| 3 | Have you now no pleasant tales to tell my Pamela to make her smile ? |
| 4 | I think I 'm gon na try and persuade my Mum to let me bring my camera in for the last day of term , I 'm gon na get a bottle of from the shop that 's on . |
| 5 | I have a real weakness for clothes and I like my mum to help me choose them , ’ she said . |
| 6 | he , he goes , he reckoned that , he reckoned that , that my blanket made him feel worse . |
| 7 | ‘ It blows my mind to see it come through like this . |
| 8 | my witness do I hurt you and they all said no . |
| 9 | My mummy makes me do lots of housework ! |
| 10 | As you have been informed , my council makes one offer only to homeless persons . |
| 11 | Cor hey you , we 're swearing a lot on that was they doing that for my benefit do you think ? |
| 12 | ‘ My parents made me do it . |
| 13 | On the other , my parents made me feel horrible , guilty . |
| 14 | When I was 19 my parents made me leave home , and after a series of disastrous relationships I became pregnant . |
| 15 | That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question . |
| 16 | A curate at St Luke 's , an older man from the West Indies , almost persuaded my parents to let me go out to Codrington College in the West Indies , but my headmaster was firm against this , expressing the hope that I might get a scholarship to an English university . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd have to look up his real name ; everybody calls him ‘ Baffetti ’ because of his moustache which in my opinion makes him look just as shifty as he is . |
| 18 | I 'm beginning to put my life together again now and I 'm concentrating on my riding to help me get through . |
| 19 | Lies are essential in life , says Professor Loyal Rue — not only do we lie to others , we tell ourselves fibs to make us feel better . |
| 20 | Or when Tom says , ‘ My teacher made me stay in today ’ , parents would do well to resist the temptation to answer , ‘ Now what have you done ? ’ , or ‘ I suppose you deserved it ’ , replies which would have inflamed his feelings . |
| 21 | What what from my fingertips do you mean ? |
| 22 | My husband made me wait while I was in labour till a game finished ! |
| 23 | These neighbours had lived there for a number of years ; they knew Mrs Browning well , and what they told my husband made us feel rather small , and very inexperienced . |
| 24 | Daddy d on my piano do you want to practice happy birthday ? |
| 25 | It 's my job to see you 've got cleaner boots than this ! ( condition 4 ) |
| 26 | The nurses turned me on my side and the doctor put a needle into a vein behind my knuckle to make me relax . |
| 27 | Nowhere in my diary do I mention this physical discomfort , and even now I ca n't remember it as amounting to pain , although I do remember the school doctor drawing the matron 's attention to the extensive bruising on the softer parts of my body . |
| 28 | A jolt of pain in my head made me wonder whether it was such a good idea . |
| 29 | I still wanted to see more of the world , and as he was offering to give me double the usual pay , I managed to persuade my wife to let me go . |
| 30 | When I reached home , my wife made me promise never to go to sea again , and I thought my adventures had come to an end . |