Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 It was on condition no one ever reminding them they were actually living there .
2 Oh I hate them I do .
3 One day as she tripped forward to greet me I had , without pausing to wonder if my embrace would be acceptable to her , bent down and kissed her .
4 But were you not here to greet me I would miss you . ’
5 She turned her back on him , unlocking the inner door , and as the warmth from the storage heaters wafted out to greet them she thanked God that she had had the foresight to leave them on — she did n't think she had been properly warm since reading the newspaper this afternoon — no , not even on the plane .
6 If there 's one thing that disgusts me it 's cold porridge .
7 we 'll fool them we 'll put we 'll say diesel
8 It spoils them dear , you should n't throw them I can smell a smell
9 Their enclosure is near by , at the back of our cages , and though it is impossible to see them we often hear them . ’
10 I mean that 's what cut straight the way across that it was , it was all and my aunt she used to live by All Saints West Bromwich , we never used , we never went to see them we used to walk it down the road past the Boars Head onto the Navigation Inn , and up by the Sandlow and she used to live opposite er All Saints Church in West Bromwich , and erm coming back we should come back round midnight you know and er have you ever heard of the Whirly Gang ?
11 If you have to go out to deliberately buy them the chances are that you wo n't but if you buy the occasional packet when you happen to see them you can have a grand time selecting them to effect a change on a sweater at the right time .
12 But when Brian goes to see them he goes with his first wife , who they call Granny .
13 In order to see them he would have had to climb a couple of hundred feet more .
14 Of course , by the time someone comes to see me they have usually made up their mind that hypnosis will be beneficial for them and so this is not a situation I encounter very often .
15 For example every day when the came to see me she wore a beautiful new sari .
16 coming round to see me I suppose she does n't want anything to eat cos she brought a sandwich with her from work , she took a sandwich to work with her hello you , nearly food time , have you smelt something to eat Ricky ?
17 Had she been Matron , her telling me to sit down would have told me immediately that whatever her reason for wanting to see me it was not to sack me .
18 I 'm sorry , Nicky Scott Wilson , but if you want to see me you 'd better make proper arrangements . ’
19 Every time you want to see me you have to make an excuse , have n't you , tell a fib of some sort ?
20 If you need to see me you know where I 'm to be found .
21 But in touching them I tried to bless them , in a spirit of reverence .
22 Only last Sunday the Royal Liver League champions scored an impressive 3–15 against Offaly to keep their league hopes alive , while at the same time reminding everyone they are in no mood to relinquish their crown .
23 ‘ Mollie will lend me hers . ’
24 So the tr the owners who owned them them days you could read about them , but they do n't do it today , cos the trainers ring them up and tell them how they 're going , do n't they ?
25 They were very short muzzle things , but them old things there like that , they were jumping when you were firing them you know .
26 Erm and it was rather a a and heavy work , you had to have a team of horses to pull a load of suedes and you had to get them in Some you used to carry out on and just drag them I mean s spread them out on the field er for the store cattle and the sheep .
27 Thass wot I call livin' if you mus ' know .
28 I had reckoned that an accusation of fear would sting the Maggot , and even before he interrupted me he had banked the plane westwards .
29 As I say all these poem 's are very dense and erm if I get round to , to completing them they 'll probably have at least another verse , certainly extra words and rhymes , that open it out and make it a bit more plausible Ours in the night , no I 've got it wrong , sorry , I 've moved on and I should n't 've done
30 Frith made all the animals and birds , but when he first made them they were all the same .
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