Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 2 | ‘ Something might have happened between them to make him lose his temper . ’ |
| 3 | My mother was quite capable of making the journey but , because of her age , I had felt that it would be wrong for me to allow her to undertake it . |
| 4 | He had difficulty sleeping and sometimes would call out in the night for me to help him light his pipe . |
| 5 | Angie Bowie : ‘ I never realized and had never been involved in who did what , but I suppose that amounts to , if one wants to look at it from Ken 's point of view , being the fly in the ointment , or of one wants to look at it from a real point of view as , in terms of property settlement and management , that I was being David 's manager at that particular time , because it was possible for me to advise him to do something about the things that really troubled him artistically . |
| 6 | I mean it 's about I mean you know I mean it 's like today I mean Jeannie said oh well you come with us shopping if you do n't want to go dancing . |
| 7 | His face a mask of puzzlement , Davis sat down to wait for someone to tell him to do something . |
| 8 | I 'm very glad to see that there 's quite a lot of nurses here , and I presume that quite a lot of those are women nurses , and I think that this is terribly important , and I think a useful thing with this new service could do is to go out and talk for instance to the meetings of women 's organisations , to old peoples ' clubs in the afternoon , and actually ask people what they would like , and get them talking in a nice informal way , rather than waiting for somebody to let them know what they think , because I do n't think they 're going to get it . |
| 9 | Humour was central to the work of these women artists , all of whom felt it allowed them to explore and communicate difficult issues which were often very personal . |
| 10 | Danny Brady claims he was bundled out of his room by a gang of 6 men , one of whom threatened him saying he did karate . |
| 11 | None of them got him to justify our membership of the ERM , which is , as everyone knows , the cause of our high interest rates . |
| 12 | Launching a sugar plantation took a great deal of capital and the planters were always short of money ; many of them had bought estates at the high land prices of the boom , and most of them felt they owed it to themselves to live in a gentlemanly way that ignored debts . |
| 13 | Only when it became totally apparent that she would never reform and was bent on self-destruction for both of them did he leave her for the younger and more stable Lauren Bacall . |
| 14 | But this kid goes haywire and a lot of them do I mean he 's all crash bang wallop is n't he ? |
| 15 | One of them slugged me to shut me up . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 17 | But a lot of I mean I mean there 's no sort of set- up and strategy for rail as a sort of within an integrated transport policy phone call from er John Prescott who er Tories in in transport . |
| 18 | No , I 'm sort of I think he confused himself as well as confusing me slightly |
| 19 | ‘ I know what it means , and I think this Mait of yours thinks he knows what it means . |
| 20 | On the probable site of Wallace 's birthplace at Elderslie a modern memorial bears inscriptions in Gaelic ( Bas agus Buaiad — Death and Victory ) , English , and Latin , a translation of which reads I tell you the truth . |
| 21 | Now , sixty one of you said you liked it and you 've been meekly listening to this wha er how would you reply to , to all those various views ? |
| 22 | ‘ And I still find the idea of you wanting me to do it … unsettling . ’ |
| 23 | to give it a bit of something to help us to move it |
| 24 | The sight of him made her catch her breath . |
| 25 | So it was really stupid of him to let you catch him after all . |
| 26 | It was unreasonable of him to expect her to know what it meant to people like Mrs Appleby to receive a visit from an employer . |
| 27 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 28 | The sheer effrontery of it made her gulp her fiery mouthful unthinkingly , and for a moment she was doubly speechless . |
| 29 | Yeah , well he was , when he was littler his dad was sort of saying one day you 'll have all this then the next minute he was saying no you wo n't , you wo n't be having any of it do you know what I mean ? |
| 30 | Do not ask me what know already and go through this routine of what d' ya do who d' ya do where d' ya go . |