Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Used to hit them on the arm , never on the head . |
| 32 | You do n't even have to hit them off the ground . |
| 33 | Perhaps there was someone behind me who was just about to hit me over the head . |
| 34 | ‘ Do n't worry … you can sleep alone — I can take a hint that I 'm not wanted without you having to hit me over the head with it , ’ he finished bitterly . |
| 35 | They were prepared to hit me on the head , were n't they ? ’ |
| 36 | I experienced a moment of complete terror in which my mind raced — I had been discovered after all ; it was obvious that I had a limp ; everyone could see it ; they 'd seen it all along and had chosen this moment to hit me with it , my weakest moment … |
| 37 | 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 ) . |
| 38 | For a moment , I thought he was going to hit me with the shoe ; then he dropped it on the floor and began to pull at my clothes . |
| 39 | Anyway today we had the scene where Matt had to hit me with the paddle sort of semi-accidentally . |
| 40 | He grabbed the crowbar and went to hit me with it . |
| 41 | If you want to hit me across the airport , I 'll understand , OK , but I 'm staying with Alejandro . |
| 42 | He could n't have rushed passed me into the bedroom , seized the bottle as a convenient weapon — he could n't have known it was there , anyway — and then dashed back out to hit me before dragging me … do you see what I 'm saying ? ’ |
| 43 | So we set the scene , we look good , we have n't crushed them to death and he 's gon na take us into one or two areas |
| 44 | That had frightened me at first but now I thought the Star Zoo was wonderful . |
| 45 | But there was widespread despoliation of the woods by local landowners and by the charcoal-burners who produced the fuel necessary for the manufacture of iron — this despite Acts of 1559 and 1570 prohibiting them from using timber-trees needed to build ships . |
| 46 | An injunction was granted against USI prohibiting them from publishing the phone numbers of British abortion clinics in student union handbooks . |
| 47 | However , in December 1989 , the Irish Supreme Court , following an appeal from SPUC , granted an injunction against USI , prohibiting them from distributing information until the European Court makes its decision , which could take several years . |
| 48 | The first , and most obvious , is the desire to prevent the unjust enrichment of criminals by prohibiting them from exploiting their crimes . |
| 49 | There seems nothing at all strange about the Church , which paid the salaries of these men and expected them to serve it , considering the question of whether or not they should be able to engage in an activity which , no matter how acceptable , would have diverted them from their main task . |
| 50 | I must ask those who are more familiar with the sciences to forgive me for any passages where they feel I might be guilty of over simplification . |
| 51 | Kate , you 've got an awful lot to forgive me for , have n't you ? ’ |
| 52 | I ask them to forgive me for not taking interventions . |
| 53 | ‘ Are you never going to forgive me for that ? ’ he queried , and there was such bone-melting charm in him then that Fabia was glad that she was sitting down . |
| 54 | In terms of a planning process Anne was talking about , you 'll have to forgive me for being relatively new to Oxfordshire and coming from an area where we had a planning system which was largely the one I was describing , and the planning role that I saw I wanted to develop was very much already mentioned which was actually going round to small groups of people , to the local caring groups on a much more informal basis , and getting their contribution about that and then feeding it back into the system , which you say is there in a sense . |
| 55 | What irritates me about going shopping in any supermarket is having to bag my own goods up . |
| 56 | What irritates me about Vienna is a certain not-quite-definable smugness , a feeling that somehow this place feels itself to be the centre . |
| 57 | And what irritates me about them more than anything is the artificial device that actors somehow compete one with the other for the prize . |
| 58 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 59 | He then transports them to earthly space for human use . |
| 60 | We should give children books which stimulate them , which open their eyes , not confine them with safe lists . ’ |