Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men who had not heard them arrive in the courtyard looked up in surprise . |
| 2 | He had not heard them pass him ; he had been too intent on watching the singer . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Oh yes , I 've never ever heard them speak you know , to him as though he 's a baby . |
| 5 | ‘ I have n't heard them mention it , ’ said Dagmar in a level voice . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had heard them come in very late . |
| 8 | I 've heard them say if the owners gave them their fare home from Lowestoft to Darsham , that 's all they had . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | ‘ And , if you 'd given me the chance to finish , you would also have heard me specify ‘ for the general collection ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've never heard me complain about Annette 's cooking . ’ |
| 14 | As you may have heard me mention already , I am involved in organising a one month summer school for 40 soviet teachers of English this July . |
| 15 | As some of you may have heard me observe , it has indeed been a sombre year . |
| 16 | Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean . |
| 17 | You must have heard me say them . |
| 18 | But she must have heard me say so , because at seven she came down and said she 'd overlooked this marvellous Stockhausen concert on Two — well , I just put on my coat and flung out of the house … |
| 19 | If he had , he would have heard me say that it was for the Attorney-General to enforce the law , not the Government . |
| 20 | If you make the same mistake , er , you have to buy another set , and I double the price for people who have heard me say do n't do this , er , and lie low , you know in the first three months , because I believe in penalising stupidity . |
| 21 | And , that again , might be me but many of you when you 've heard me say it in a service I 've ended up with my asking at the end of a sermon asking the congregation to smile . |
| 22 | Why have you heard me say it before today Seems strange that they need to throw out those old curb stones , you 'd of imagined they could of used them again , would n't you ? |
| 23 | That you can easily lose your concentration and go off to sleep and so it is in the truth , so we need to stay awake , stand firm for almighty , be vigilant and again in the scriptures we could look up half a dozen scriptures in the Christian Greek scriptures to show that we need to keep spiritually awake and it uses different terminology you 've heard me use some already , remember the one in verse Peter four , verse seven ? |
| 24 | Heads came bursting from every doorway to see them pass , and the warm hum of excitement and eagerness span after them in a golden thread , the voice of the brightness that flashed like sparks from face to face . |
| 25 | Of course , the fossil hunters will lose all the bones that will erode from the hillsides with no one to see them re-emerge into daylight . |
| 26 | Of course , the fossil hunters will lose all the bones that will erode from the hillsides with no one to see them re-emerge into daylight . |
| 27 | In the morning the visitors would be on the quay to see them return , slip neatly into a mooring and begin the unloading and selling of the night 's catch . |
| 28 | After young bands have had a couple of hit singles , with their album selling well , everybody wants to see them perform live . |
| 29 | With this in mind , she had taken Charles with her when she went to see them perform for the first time . |
| 30 | When they worked in their home town , the audience would queue round the block to see them perform twice nightly . |