Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listen to me , I goes , if you push me again I 'll grab your tit and pull it off . |
| 2 | ‘ Push me down it , more like , ’ he grunted , and turned away from the spectacular aerial view , feeling dizzy . |
| 3 | You ought to see them up it 's sort of like a leg here , half a leg there a bit of chatting up . |
| 4 | erm no I mean it 's , it 's good to see them on they were , they , the programme on , on the fourth of November will be audio described |
| 5 | When Pope John xxiii visited prison he said to the inmates ‘ You could not come to see me so I have come to see you . ’ |
| 6 | When your mother , good woman that she is , came to see me yesterday I was not shocked to hear what she had to say . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose you wo n't want to see me now your little mystery 's been cleared up ? ’ |
| 8 | How anyone could thread bits of bread on hooks then snag the poor buggers in the crop and just reel them in I 'll never understand . |
| 9 | A classic example is the agoraphobic housewife whose husband is , ‘ really wonderful , very sympathetic and understanding … he does everything for me … he comes around all the shops with me and drives me wherever I want to go ’ . |
| 10 | in here , you just tape them on , bang them down who it was and when it was and then on Friday he picks them up and you get twenty five quids worth of vouchers from Marks and Spencers . |
| 11 | You can make them up you me or or |
| 12 | Okay , you want the body temperature kept at an even level , do n't have it too high , do n't have it too low , cos if you shiver you make use of muscles and then the muscles will call on oxygen and then you 'll shiver , you do n't want them there you want the blood in here , if you make them sweat you 'll bring the blood to the surface of the skin again to lose heat , and that 's again precisely where you do n't need , you want it in the core of the body so you maintain an even body temperature . |
| 13 | We can rerun them whenever we want to . |
| 14 | track , because it it , no other transport business er has er does has to have a business , which op owns both the track it 's operating on and the operating er facilities themselves , so the we 're not doing anything new here , what we are actually doing , and incidentally the German government and other governments are going down the same route now because it 's not true to say that others are n't privatizing , what we 're doing is saying that we are having a separate track authority , and there are a variety of reasons for that , er but the an and that means actually less investment by the franchisee himself , but he will have control over the th the track operations , because he will have a contract , with Rail Track , to deliver certain services , and if Rail Track does n't deliver them then he 's able to claim penalties so |
| 15 | But if they was good hay and that and you tramped them down they stayed for ages . |
| 16 | You see , if you like me then you 'll think that I 'm some sort of brain surgeon , and if you hate me then you 'll think I 'm shit … the truth is in the middle . |
| 17 | Two elderly Irish ladies , sisters , linked arm in arm , asked me where they were . |
| 18 | So when she asked me where we 'd be without him , my urge was to reply , ‘ Rich . ’ |
| 19 | The American captain of a supply ship was chatting to me one day and asked me where we were based . |
| 20 | After eating the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron which he must have liked , he asked me where I came from . |
| 21 | So when the Sergeant-Major asked me where I hoped to be posted eventually , I told him the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes ; this did n't surprise him as most British recruits said the same thing . |
| 22 | Well , he could remember , and he was n't afraid , for he could remember even now … and Kraal began to speak ‘ You asked me where I came from , Creggan , and I will tell you . |
| 23 | In the event , the culmination of the relationship occurred when the telephone rang one day and in a suspiciously silky voice George asked me where I thought the Derby Cup was . |
| 24 | I am worried as well about the way you asked me where I went after we 'd arrived in Oxford because I did n't tell you the truth then either , I went to Holywell cemetery and went to the grave of a friend of mine . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't know who he was , either , but he asked me where he could find you , and I told him I did n't know , and he said ‘ Are you new too ? ’ and then you arrived and … ’ |
| 26 | Then she asked me why we treated social services staff differently from everyone else . |
| 27 | One day when we were vacationing in Santa Fe in 1943 my daughter , Jennifer , who was then 3 , asked me why she could not see the picture I had just taken of her . |
| 28 | ‘ I saw my bank manager at the end of last year and she asked me why I was spending so much on food . |
| 29 | Back in the changing room at the end of the period Alec Davidson casually asked me why I always put my shoes inside my satchel during the gym lesson . |
| 30 | ‘ When my friends asked me why I left the ministry , I told them the focus was too narrow . |