Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | See them laugh as they feed the ducks . |
| 2 | I thought it showed a gross lack of understanding on her part to have made a comment like this and it made me doubt whether she understood the complexity of the situation . |
| 3 | I am almost tempted to produce some enormous prize for any bookseller who can furnish me with a list of the shortlisted titles , or even let me know if they have the winning title in stock : I feel confident that I would have no takers . |
| 4 | Let me know if you find the Channings . ’ |
| 5 | I asked if they knew the way to the Sanctum . |
| 6 | He returned with a symphonic battle piece , and when I asked if he realized the significance of the words he admitted he did not know what they meant ! ) |
| 7 | I asked as I held the deli door open for him . |
| 8 | I asked as I stroked the baby 's fuzzy head . |
| 9 | I asked as I started the engine . |
| 10 | I mean that I attended the lectures given at Cambridge by Dirac . |
| 11 | By that I mean that I see the New English Art Club as standing for a cultured , civilised , very English approach to art — a kind of visual stability . |
| 12 | I 've never been at it myself , like , but I mean but I mean the and all is , well there 's all the stuff on it anyway . |
| 13 | I mean as you say the music , yes , but the , all the props in it , no |
| 14 | I also think , on er sort of workers ' rights , I mean if you know the person that 's made it , like a local butcher , I would trust more to make I would trust more than . |
| 15 | I mean if you take the regulatory we did it with today that it consists of the Bank of England , the Securities and Investment Board , twenty four organisations of the S I B S , siblings you might call them er under it , the Building Societies Commission , the police , the serious fraud office , the Department of Trade and Industry , the London Stock Exchange , the Inland Revenue , five recognised supervisory bodies , all those dealing with er auditors and the others , it 's chaos er and nobody knows who is responsible for what and in that chaos you get overlapping decisions er er and conflicting regulations , everybody tries to ensure themselves by regulating too much er er and it 's a situation which drastically needs simplification , but we do n't have any proposals for strengthening and making that work er er frame work more effective , to back up er this er simple proposal today . |
| 16 | I mean if you take the number of people we 've had that 's had to get babysitters and that |
| 17 | which is probably very tried , but I mean if you imagine the whole of Britain with no museums , no concerts , no ballet and no opera none of these things , then you would be a very impoverished society . |
| 18 | you 're not fucking throwing the plane out of control or the elevator would rip off or something , I mean if you get the same sort of thing probably would only have to do that , break the surface a little bit . |
| 19 | Well what 's she frightened of like , I mean if she opened the door this |
| 20 | Unless it got personal , I 'd turn it off , I mean I mean when we went the estate agents and solicitors |
| 21 | Now it was the truth , I mean when you scull the boat , they call that sculling , rowing , they usually do a figure of eight with one oar and a figure of eight , that 's how you do that , that 's a hard job to keep that into that here hole at the back of the boat , because |
| 22 | I mean when I started the job it was n't the job |
| 23 | Well my mother was one of the pillars of the Palfrey church and er she er oh I went , my father never used to go , but she used to go and of course I , I used to be an altar server down there when I got a bit older I did for a week or two to the erm do you know anything about an Anglo-Catholic Church I mean where they swing the incense and there is this little boy with the boat ? |
| 24 | I mean where you buy the , the thing from you 'd think the seldom , the spares as you want them about every four months |
| 25 | At the time of qualifying , however , I realized that I had the choice of working for the Eastern Health Board or the Catholic Church ( the two are interchangeable ) . |
| 26 | Jessica and I met when we joined the same company within a day of each other — both straight from school . |
| 27 | She was the first person I met when I joined the Waaf , and the last person I saw as I left it . |
| 28 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 29 | As I found when I took the time to listen to parents and hear what they said , the views advanced did not always fit the latest fashion or an approved passage in a book on sociology . |
| 30 | And as far as in the appraisals I mean I found when I did the three s part staff and , and I was , it was that pilot and , and I know |