Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well and do you want me to do one for this year ? |
| 2 | ‘ I think Stan expected me to grab it with both hands and when I declined , he just sat there and could n't believe it . |
| 3 | I think Stan expected me to grab it with both hands . |
| 4 | Noone knew what had happened cos noone expected a free kick in the first place let alone expected them to take it like that . |
| 5 | So you do n't you do n't want them to move it at all ? |
| 6 | But he did not want them to follow him under any false delusion . |
| 7 | For example , if the soft sell chap fails to wheedle his client into buying , his partner can ring him up and say : " My colleague 's at an important meeting , but he asked me to call you about this stock . |
| 8 | Paul Reichmann asked me to delay everything for two months and I agreed . |
| 9 | They asked me to follow them without any explanation and blindfolded me . |
| 10 | ‘ What made me develop her along masochistic lines ? |
| 11 | Well the people who make them sell them for forty P er twenty P rather . |
| 12 | If I should tell at a tea table in London , that I have crossed the Atlantick in an open boat , how they 'd shudder , and what a fool they 'd think me to expose myself to such danger . ’ |
| 13 | When am I supposed to have broken into the house , and why on earth should you think I know anything about any of the guns ? ’ |
| 14 | Yes When I put on red one day , I mean I do n't think I have anything in red do I , but when I put on my clothes in the morning |
| 15 | I mean I saw her at eleven o'clock at night going jogging with a plastic bag wrapped around her arms . |
| 16 | She was in first thing , I mean I sent it off that evening she was in first thing the next morning yes that 's fine . |
| 17 | I mean I had nothing at all to do with t' business except I went in partnership with me wife and that . |
| 18 | ‘ O Mary , mother of sorrows who knows so well a mother 's anguish , intercede I pray you for this sorrowing mother and her innocent son … ’ |
| 19 | Pls note third para — let me know if you want me to do anything about this . |
| 20 | White jeans : you do n't need me to tell you about those . |
| 21 | ‘ You expect me to accommodate you in that ? ’ |
| 22 | Jeff was voted their Player of the Year last season , but they 've let me have him for six months . |
| 23 | Sid helped me carry them to that table ready for serving . |
| 24 | Please note that individual hotels , guest houses and selfcatering establishments have the right to vary the conditions outlined here and/or impose additional conditions , provided them inform you of such conditions before they accept your booking . |
| 25 | ‘ He needs someone to help him with that estate . ’ |
| 26 | His occasional outbursts of anger shocked those around him , but he felt an uncontrollable flame of fury whenever he saw a child being bullied or mistreated which blinded him to all else . |
| 27 | I think it helped her having something like that to do . |
| 28 | Yeah , why d' ya snap it in half ? |
| 29 | Did n't know you had it for four years . |
| 30 | ‘ I did n't know you had anything against sweaty bodies , ’ said Quigly . |