Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Way back in 1957 I had talked my boss into allowing me to learn to fly helicopters with the British European Airways Helicopter Unit at Gatwick and in 1960 I sat in on the first ground school course BOAC conducted for their senior captains converting to the first Boeing 707s . |
| 2 | make them like swimming hats with lots of little flowers all over them |
| 3 | It 's got ta make me jump up and down and make me want to knock walls down to secure a deal . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I mean , do n't you think I 've got worries enough , Lucinda , what with this terrible war and the bombing ? |
| 5 | I do n't think I like to see women dancing at all when they 're not hopping they 're undulating . ’ |
| 6 | Why should you think I want to write books ? ’ |
| 7 | I 've been a candidate before , I do n't like to do things badly , since coming into politics I do n't think I have done things badly , I do n't want to fail you and I do n't want you to see me as a failure . |
| 8 | I earned a few sous so I became more fantastical , maintaining I had met Brahmins who killed themselves on funeral pyres ; men with monkeys ’ heads and leopards ' bodies ; giants with only one eye and one foot who could run so fast they could only be caught if they fell asleep in the lap of a virgin . |
| 9 | ‘ Are you suggesting I 've taken drugs ? ’ |
| 10 | I realised I wanted to use objects as symbols , instead of illustrative figures ’ . |
| 11 | I realised I wanted to use objects as symbols , instead of illustrative figures ’ . |
| 12 | I mean I 've heard representatives for County Council th this week saying that er as far as they were concerned th the standards were n't sufficiently low yet for them t to take action . |
| 13 | I mean I 've seen men work underneath the sewage and now of course that 's all manica mechanical . |
| 14 | That perhaps it 's easier to do in a smaller department , I mean I 've got checkouts , and the majority of my staff are part-time , and I 've only got three full-timers , so it 's quite often the case that at nine thirty , one thirty , five thirty , eight thirty , it 's a case of coming in and then relieving somebody else straight away , you do n't necessarily have the time to spend with them . |
| 15 | but but I mean I 've got prizes of |
| 16 | I 've been taping us for ages though , we 've been talking about comple , I mean I 've got conversations about Thelma and Louise on here about fifteen million times and Drop Dead Fred 's original I ai n't done him yet . |
| 17 | I mean I 've known lorries to go down and get out the human manure |
| 18 | I mean I 've known wives er having bicycles ready in the , in the corridors of the house , where all the man had to do was to get his trousers on , if he was asleep in bed , she would come and open the front door , put him on his bike and away he went . |
| 19 | It was n't what it said , I mean I 've read books and heard jokes just as bad , it was just the thought of Mummy getting it . |
| 20 | Come in then if you want me stop throwing tantrums |
| 21 | I 'll let you know I 've got stacks of brains , ’ Tom retorted . |
| 22 | Yeah , they would be er erm , I think they would , would be more like er , see of course when we came back here to Stoke er I mean that severed relations with them so to speak apart from like say letters , they did use , used to write I remember getting letters and we 'd send letters , perhaps only twice a year , but I can remember them mentioning . |
| 23 | The thing is I 've omitted I 've omitted things like sin |
| 24 | Gardner 's script contains other doubtful gems such as , ‘ I keep thinking , how come I 've got kids and I 'm only eighteen years old . |
| 25 | caught I 've got peanuts in the cup |
| 26 | ‘ Aah did n't know 'e 'd asked thi , ’ Annie answered in surprise . |
| 27 | I did n't know you had to make holes . |
| 28 | If you do manage to buy wild boar , I suggest you try making hamburgers . |
| 29 | ‘ I expect you 've heard rumours about the purpose-built radio station that 's been planned . |
| 30 | Some of your stress may be caused by problems at home , particularly if say you 've got teenagers . |