Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helping residents or reminding them to go to and from the toilets is a daily part of your duties . |
| 2 | I am sending out a list of participants to each person , reminding them to please assemble at , but preferably not much before , 1345 for a prompt 1400 start . |
| 3 | But even then research into the old approved schools showed children who experienced them had a reconviction rate 49 per cent higher than would otherwise have been expected from their characteristics and records . |
| 4 | Both Japan and South Korea had expressed reservations about Dunkel 's draft accord on the grounds that it would oblige them to open their rice markets by imposing " tariffication " under which import quotas would be converted into tariffs [ see p. 38602 ] . |
| 5 | The Law Commission committee says that this principle is not good enough ; sellers should be under a legal duty to reveal everything they know and ought to know about their property — which would oblige them to carry out a survey before offering it for sale . |
| 6 | It will oblige them to make long drives across the desert to Egypt or Tunisia when they want to leave the country . |
| 7 | That barrier , a common external tariff , was integral to the Treaty of Rome , which wanted to go beyond a free trade area to a customs union , which the Six believed was a far more effective way of developing the potential of their internal market , the logic of which would ultimately oblige them to adopt common policies and harmonise their regulations . |
| 8 | but used to say I hate them , I hate them coming you know ? |
| 9 | The men who had not heard them arrive in the courtyard looked up in surprise . |
| 10 | In the English Lake District I have heard them mimicking the curlew , a bird not found in the Cambridge area . |
| 11 | I have seen them leaving Stronsay after a dance and you would still have heard them singing when they reached Papay . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've heard them rustling about but they 're staying out of our way . |
| 13 | He had not heard them pass him ; he had been too intent on watching the singer . |
| 14 | Tammuz' jaded beliefs were not that novel : Quincx had heard them spill from many a Tech-Green 's lips ; but then Ewan had always thought himself unique . |
| 15 | Oh yes , I 've never ever heard them speak you know , to him as though he 's a baby . |
| 16 | Mind you I 've heard them shouting at him . |
| 17 | ‘ I have n't heard them mention it , ’ said Dagmar in a level voice . |
| 18 | The T & G traditionally have looked at the G M B as er look down at sometimes at the G M B. I 've heard them described before as the sweepers up union and various other things . |
| 19 | Yet it was the poem that brought Wordsworth to the notice of clerics in need of sermon material ( his poems were used for this purpose throughout the last century , and I have heard them used in this ) . |
| 20 | There are readers whom , as Zuckerman is the first ( or second ) to acknowledge , he can drive to the complaint that he has sex , and family matters , and Jewish matters , on the brain : ‘ I want him to take his manuscript and mail it to his mother ’ , as I have heard them cry . |
| 21 | She had heard them come in very late . |
| 22 | I 've heard them talking about you . ’ |
| 23 | I 've heard them say if the owners gave them their fare home from Lowestoft to Darsham , that 's all they had . |
| 24 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 25 | Yes er what what er the pitch I think in fact I 've heard them say this er because I 've been out with two of the top fliers up here |
| 26 | Last but by not means least , and we 've heard them mentioned a couple times already this week and it will be dealt with more extensively later in the week we have of course persuaded to enter into detailed discussions with us er , which would hopefully lead to a transfer of engagements by the end of this year . |
| 27 | ‘ And , if you 'd given me the chance to finish , you would also have heard me specify ‘ for the general collection ’ . |
| 28 | Had they bothered to look in on that Standing Committee , they would have heard me make it clear that the Government will be working in co-operation with our European Community colleagues to find a way of reducing carbon dioxide emissions effectively . |
| 29 | ‘ You 've never heard me complain about Annette 's cooking . ’ |
| 30 | Oh … that reminds me … when you came round , you mumbled something about having heard me calling you . |