Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will know in advance and will stop them using everything in our legal power . |
| 2 | These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain . |
| 3 | ‘ Let me make something quite clear to you , Alice , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Then he added , with a sudden burst of frankness , ‘ I reckoned the news would seep out anyway in time and cause them to lose plenty of sleep . ’ |
| 5 | I 've made them eat everything I do , so I can tell you the food is n't tampered with . |
| 6 | No , he sa , he did , the , happen occasionally went to a neighbour and asked to them to borrow one , he 's not started again |
| 7 | This made them wish to take me to see something more lovely on the island . |
| 8 | ‘ Let me explain something ! |
| 9 | no , no , it was just a bound to be a cos you see , let me explain something to you until you gave evidence today , certainly I did n't and maybe others did n't realize in this court room that what were looking at is that one edition of the brochure which may of had several editions , do you understand ? |
| 10 | ‘ Gaby , let me explain something : this is a major case . |
| 11 | I remember thinking all numbers look the same , none of them mean anything on their own , but when you string them together they have a sort of magic to them , they 're an incantation like witches sing when they circle round the cauldron cackling . |
| 12 | His plan for Bearwood ( Fig. 21 ) , executed in 1865–74 for John Walter , chief proprietor of The Times , and included in The Gentleman 's House , is an expression of what Mark Girouard describes as the Victorian ‘ genius for analysis and definition ’ , a genius which led them to classify everything from insects through households to societies . |
| 13 | It only remains for me to thank everyone who made this year both a pleasure and a challenge for me . |
| 14 | then go on to the ones you marked as " different " and listen to them read one after the other . |
| 15 | Journalists do not mind being reminded so long as they do not think you are pressing them to write something they can not be sure will be published . |
| 16 | But there 's one one fault really it takes approximately fifteen to eighteen months for them to pass anything like that and that could be one |
| 17 | The fact that they ca n't look at the real problems makes them attack someone or something else . |
| 18 | Oh , let me buy one off you . |
| 19 | ‘ He wants me to meet somebody and I 'm not sure I should . ’ |
| 20 | From my point of view it was a complete success — fun , interesting and the chance for me to meet someone whom I 'd admired from afar since I was 14 years old . |
| 21 | It would be quite unseemly for me to meet anyone — to socialise . |
| 22 | Do n't let me catch anybody else rushing about the corridor , or they 'll know what to expect . |
| 23 | said the encyclical Immortale Dei ( 1885 ) , ‘ in as much as none of them contains anything contrary to Catholic doctrine , and all of them are capable , if wisely and justly managed , of ensuring the welfare of the State . ’ |
| 24 | Excuse me has anybody got the time . |
| 25 | I think you expect me to spell everything out , oh , just hang on for a moment will you Barbara , fine . |
| 26 | Neither of them mentioned anything that had been said during the night ; they just agreed to head back to civilisation and not to mix whisky and cannabis like that again . |
| 27 | I carry with me the tattered remnants of this psychic structure : there is no way of not working hard , nothing in the end but an endurance that will allow me to absorb everything by the way of difficulty , holding on to the grave . |
| 28 | It is now most unusual for me to find anyone with whom I can have a knowledgeable chat about day and night netting . |
| 29 | A New Zealander , Wilkins , who had joined the section halfway through basic training from Castelnaudary , asked me to write one for him . |
| 30 | As one who was so instrumental in mapping out the future promise of early Smiths , his quote ‘ If you asked me to write something about The Smiths now it would probably be critical ’ , remained interesting . |