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Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	They 're too embarrassed to actually part with them and so you have this very difficult decision as to whether to insist that you have their laundry or whether you allow them to go on doing that , causing them to live in a smelly environment .
2	You would expect them to carry on doing that .
3	How on earth d' you expect me to sit there watching that woman being forced to humiliate herself like that ? ’
4	I do n't deserve that forgiveness , but the God who loves me who has actually died on the cross for me has actually taken all of that away and more than that has made me new , has actually raised me as a new life with him .
5	‘ Although there are several people sitting on the FISA Commission whom I like and respect , none of them has ever done any serious motor racing , ’ he warned .
6	No-one has ever said that about us before .
7	I do not wish in any way to criticise you , and I appreciate that I applied today to ask such a question —
8	You see I 've just taped that .
9	there you see I 've just cured that one look , that one with
10	I 've left my computer programme going , God knows what it 's gon na do I 've only got half an hour to finish it !
11	Okay , I mean just ignore that one , forget I wrote it .
12	I mean just thinking that ?
13	Now if I 'm presenting my centre line to Tony and speaking to him that feels fine yeah , but if I talk to you Dave over my shoulder like that I mean how does that feel ?
14	Well I mean how do all the rest of the pond they 've not all got bloody herons , plastic herons perched on the side have they ?
15	Well they complain doing two for ones I mean never mind this
16	Erm I do n't know I do n't yo I , I think possibly having that foot up on the stool was perhaps a mistake .
17	Well , I agreed not to speak more than half an hour , but I see that I have been speaking for a little longer than forty-five minutes .
18	Sadly , I failed daily to get any of the pilots to use the Link , so I used the periods myself and , in time , overcame my shortcomings in bad-weather flying , I am convinced to this day that those stolen trips in the Link could well have prolonged my flying life in later years .
19	As I sit here typing this letter , the sky is black and it 's pouring with rain — real April showers .
20	I got up to get some water and went to the window .
21	Oh I quite agree because I think that there people that have , I 'm a car driver , but if I 'm in inner city I tend not to use that , I use public transport
22	When it came I tried frantically to remember all that had been forced into me by my mentor , and to the utter amazement of all — around but mainly myself — I passed into the 17th Entry at Halton in January 1928 with , I believe , 305 out of a total of just under 400 starters .
23	I tried not to let this interfere with les très riches heures de James Kirkup , but the wretchedness and misery were overwhelming .
24	In the last six articles I tried not to describe any canoeing technique as right or wrong .
25	I tried not to give any extra weight to the explanations or justifications made by one individual rather than another .
26	I tried never to throw any food away .
27	I found how to do this by accident .
28	I was never so self-assured again , though I rallied enough to get some good results in the School Certificate exams , and joined in enough activities — rowing , choir , dramatic society — to be dubbed as an all-rounder by the headmaster ( a description which brought jeers from my schoolmates ) .
29	I want now to consider some further aspects of " the creation of legitimacy " which most anthropologists consider to be the crucial function of any institution described as " marriage " .
30	The language I used obviously means this : the plaintiff in order to make out a cause of action must assert certain facts which , if traversed , he would be put to prove .