Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [conj] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked whether he is now used to confrontations , he said : ‘ I hate them but they seem to come my way . |
| 2 | But what they ca n't stand is that I hate them when they do n't behave in their own way . |
| 3 | I was wise in my childishness even then , at the tender age of five , when most children are forever telling their parents and friends that they hate them and they wish they were dead . |
| 4 | Trust me when I say you should have nothing to do with such drivel — make like a tree and leave it . |
| 5 | We like people who remind us of ourselves , and we understand and trust them since they reinforce our self-image . |
| 6 | In South Africa , ants visiting Ficus sur to tend homopterans deter parasitoids of the figs , thus enhancing pollination success , but some ants feed on arriving pollinators , while some birds eat them as they emerge . |
| 7 | Well you 've got your X there , you 've got your two Xs there , so you subtract them and you 've got |
| 8 | ‘ You hate me because I have the cash , you hate me because I 'm not tied to a counter in a shop or slaving down the mines for it . |
| 9 | You hate me when I turn up in the sexy German motor , you hate me when I ca n't turn up at all . |
| 10 | Coton — Pick me or I quit |
| 11 | They will scratch at scabs , pick them until they bleed . |
| 12 | Pardon me while I tuck the arse back into my trousers ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Pardon me if I write vehemently , ’ he apologized disingenuously to Poole in his second letter , adding with more than a hint of picturesque excess : |
| 14 | PARDON me if I do n't break down in tears at the plight of the parents who are having to take their children out of private schools because they can not afford the fees . |
| 15 | Scratch me and I bite . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Scratch me and I bite . ’ |
| 17 | A big erm , funnily enough , although three of the other chaps that were involved in , erm , one of them really upset me cos they run up together , he was navigator on together . |
| 18 | You connect them and they have arrangement with funeral directors to get them on the cheap . |
| 19 | Do you find that people working in here are like that with their children , do you think they sort of push them so you do n't , you know do n't end up working in a factory like me ? |
| 20 | You eat yours and I eat mine . |
| 21 | I mean I If we have ten thousand pounds , we could put four thousands into an , an annuity , and say six thousand into a P E P , to give a simple example , and the P E P could then accumulate value over the te over the five years , let's assume it 's a five year one , but it could be ten . |
| 22 | I usually empty them but I 've been busy . |
| 23 | You want me or you do n't . |
| 24 | In the same way , it seems clear that there is a positive connection between an open style of communication and organisational performance : ‘ When communication is open , organisations are able to identify their problems early and solve them before they get out of hand . |
| 25 | Well all sorts , let sleeping dogs lie , the ones that underline them as I 've underlined in biro . |
| 26 | And they know for a fact the minute your kids grab them that you 've got to pay . |
| 27 | ‘ You only ever touch me when you want sex , ’ said Elinor . |
| 28 | Mock me and you mock the crown ! ’ |
| 29 | With his dying breath on the Cross , he is reported to have said : ‘ Father , forgive them for they know not what they do' ’ . ' |
| 30 | Jesus called out to the Father in his spirit and with his voice : ‘ Father forgive them for they know not what they do . ’ |