Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually I let him go on the . |
| 2 | and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks |
| 3 | I let it hang in the air , like a question . |
| 4 | Once I seen someone dive into the road like diving into water . |
| 5 | I hear myself scream in the treble , and , Ahhh ! and Ahhh ! again . |
| 6 | I hear something fall onto the leaves below . |
| 7 | I hear someone move across the floor . |
| 8 | I heard them talk about the ‘ good creature ’ who did these ‘ wonderful ’ things . |
| 9 | I waited till I heard him go into the bathroom , grabbed all my gear and tiptoed out of the house . |
| 10 | I heard him refer to the Danuese as ‘ natives ’ and myself once as a ‘ Chinaman ’ . |
| 11 | He pretended to me that he was already booked in there , but he was n't — I heard him ask for the room afterwards . |
| 12 | I watched it disappear down the road . |
| 13 | And I 'm going as slow as I can go and I 'm just taking everything in , and I 'm unwinding , I 'm relaxing mentally and physically as I do it because that 's what I feel I need at the moment , and having that ability is good . |
| 14 | This produces the effect of a " coincident actualization " observed in sentences such as I saw him swim across the river , which can be depicted as : With auxiliaries , the connection between the infinitive and the verb with which it is in syntactic relation is much more intimate : the auxiliaries used with the infinitive do not merely evoke some other event whose support coincides in time with that of the infinitive — they qualify the very incidence of the infinitive 's event to its extra-verbal support , as actual ( do auxiliary ) or potential ( the modals ) . |
| 15 | I saw him go into the room where the telephone is . ’ |
| 16 | I saw him go through the gate into the woods … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I saw him play in the Schools Cup . ’ |
| 18 | Obviously I could n't follow him up to his front door , but I saw him turn into the grounds . ’ |
| 19 | I saw him like on the right , on the path and I goes I goes what you do I goes gon na be sick . |
| 20 | ‘ I saw him come up the path , ’ said an angry voice . |
| 21 | I saw them gleam in the lamp-light . |
| 22 | But the comm-screen exposes faces in the harshest detail , and for an instant I saw something move at the back of his wet old eyes , like a creature threshing in a net . |
| 23 | I thought it was you and I ran off , it was you , and th and I saw you come from the bush with Howard . |
| 24 | I Did you put in the there ? |
| 25 | When I had a lock that was sticking what did I blow What powder I did I blow into the lock to make it work better ? |
| 26 | I need one pound for the bus fares . |
| 27 | Now I see him scramble for the fallen gun . |
| 28 | I see it hump through the waves . |
| 29 | The central position which the Communists occupied in these campaigns was a result of their international connections , which made them appear as the principal opponents of Fascism . |
| 30 | But not dropped , ’ he added with a grin which made him look like the prototype jovial monk . |