Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the almost total defeat of the Italians in North Africa by General O'Connor in January 1941 , the Germans had decided to send an Afrika Korps to bolster their allies . |
| 2 | I was going good grief , she goes make her sick if it kills me . |
| 3 | A straightforward man ( Ed O'Neill ) agrees to drive his girlfriend 's son home from boarding school for Thanksgiving . |
| 4 | TWO GIRLS , FAT AND THIN Mary Gaitskill The fat girl is an obsessive devotee of popular novelist Anna Granite , the thin girl a New York writer who goes to interview her . |
| 5 | Her job is to push Cabinet ministers ‘ to do what is right ’ ; this involves reminding them of the Government 's strategy laid down in the manifestos and combating what she regards as the inertia inherent in departments . |
| 6 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 7 | That this person should harbour aggressive feelings towards you is unimaginable , but then suddenly , she goes to poke you in the eye — and you blink . |
| 8 | They did n't drive around in their fathers ' cast-off Rollers ; they pooled their resources , picked up a MkII escort for a hundred notes at an auction and took it in turns to drive it round a disused airfield practising handbrake turns until the car cried enough . |
| 9 | ‘ Daddy hates to see anybody sitting down doing nothing . ’ |
| 10 | Doth earn their money by taking of hard pains . ’ |
| 11 | Nobody goes to see him unless he 's showing a video . |
| 12 | The record buyer who has fallen in love with the band , and goes to see them play , is often disappointed by a lacklustre show . |
| 13 | But when Brian goes to see them he goes with his first wife , who they call Granny . |
| 14 | Given , let let's say y'know somebody of a status goes to see somebody of equivalent status wait so it 's it 's about the distance , yeah . |
| 15 | Leaving aside the issue of where Mart goes to see his films , the observation is interesting because it directs attention towards one of Hollywood 's generally unnoticed pre-occupations . |
| 16 | Trevor goes to see his sister about once a month . |
| 17 | So he goes to see his mother who 's a nurse at the |
| 18 | The trick does not work , but at least it leads to the hiding of Colas in Lise 's bedroom and the awful discovery of the two of them together just as Alain has received the key and goes to claim his bride . |
| 19 | Are the Government prepared to exercise their right , as the holders of that share , to ensure that British Steel agrees to implement its promise that it would either stay at Ravenscraig or sell the plant to somebody else ? |
| 20 | France 's Environment Minister , Brice Lalonde , has threatened to resign unless the government agrees to implement his plan for a new waste tax . |
| 21 | Fucking , fire 's this gun at him point blank and he goes and he stands there like this , and he , he stood there and he goes running round the corner sort of thing and then he goes he ca n't of missed from that fucking distance you know , and its that distance and er , in the , in the car , the mate goes , the mate sort of till he passed out , and he goes bring it to me , he goes , and its still alive , he goes , but matey in the front goes oh my he goes , I knew you 'd fuck up he goes and so they 're all blanks you |
| 22 | native girls and then Paddy goes to like what do yous have for like alcohol over here ? |
| 23 | Your Mum 's got a kick-start on your Dad 's cock so he goes rub it up babe ! aargh ! aargh ! aargh ! aargh ! aargh ! aargh ! |
| 24 | When had her name up for detention she goes rub it off ! |
| 25 | She goes rub it off . |
| 26 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 27 | Agrees to write it off for me . |
| 28 | JEWKES : But she sits cooling herself in the hall over against the staircase . |
| 29 | On one memorable occasion , she thinks to communicate her feelings about Catholic beliefs to some of her older pupils . |
| 30 | On a tree-stump beside one cave-mouth , a raccoon sits swatting them down with its paw , munching the little bodies and discarding the skinny wings onto a growing pile on the ground beside it . |