Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | and very firmly tightening the grip , without allowing the person to say I do n't like this hand there , I do n't like what you 're doing . |
| 2 | Cos the we er did get people contacting the office to say I 've got a lump sum , I 'd like to put it somewhere for a couple of years , and er we always wondered why they 're thinking of a couple of years . |
| 3 | I do n't throw the dice do I ? |
| 4 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 5 | I think half the people who 've come to see the house suspect I 'm a sitting tenant . ’ |
| 6 | It would make the people think I was panicking . |
| 7 | I 'll make the servants tell me where it is . |
| 8 | ‘ Joanna asked the farmer to ring me before they took her away in the ambulance . |
| 9 | I asked the management to release me from my contract . ’ |
| 10 | Thinking quickly , I asked the driver to take me to Clonmacnoise instead , a famous holy city that stood in ruins scattered over a sloping river bank . |
| 11 | ‘ So the RUC asked the company to remove me as I was , in their view , a security risk . ’ |
| 12 | In a modest attempt to amend the damage accumulated over centuries by this pernicious little fiction , I asked the children to give me the Other Version , particularly Eve 's , but Adam 's or God 's as well if they preferred . |
| 13 | I asked the conductor to tell me when we came to my stop , and he said , " Lady , you think I got X-ray eyes or something ? |
| 14 | He asked the director to get me away from him . |
| 15 | ‘ Angel , you are n't going to like this one bit , but you asked the agency to call me as soon as Avanti decided . |
| 16 | What I heard every time Barnesy got the ball made me feel really bad for him . |
| 17 | come across and got the car going I guarantee . |
| 18 | ‘ I was so suprised when I got the letter telling me about the award that I burst into tears , ’ says Joan , a widow . |
| 19 | I did not want the man to see me until I had looked closely at him . |
| 20 | I do n't want the lads thinking I 'm some sort of wimp , that ca n't cope with a bit of shock . ’ |
| 21 | I was the black sheep , you see , and Aunt Pamela did n't want the neighbours suspecting I was my father 's son . ’ |
| 22 | The sentimental side , although well presented by a fine ballad like ‘ Make the Man Love Me ’ , is both overshadowed and made more sugary by the comic element of Cisssie , the heroine 's sister , with her string of ‘ husbands ’ all called Harry and her rosy outlook . |
| 23 | Well I only , th I mean the woman made me feel dead small because I said to her you know , she was asking everybody why they 'd come and I said , well I 've only come to give Chris moral support , which was the truth because until about three hours before we went , I did n't even know it was there |
| 24 | I mean the Halifax charged me three hundred pounds for this and I 've already got a mortgage with them , so they do n't need to do any sort of er er in depth surveys , or , or , or assessments on the house . |
| 25 | I do n't think the policeman saw me . |
| 26 | A community worker who helped the family told me : |
| 27 | After all this high-profile imagery I had fully expected the Serenade to hit me with a physical force akin to Karajan 's classic BPO digital remake ( DG ) . |
| 28 | We should never have let the world think I wrote them . |
| 29 | That puling creature has the gall to remind me that Stephen is a consecrated king and should not be treated as a felon . |
| 30 | He has the right to redeem me , because he made me ! |