Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Jennie came in and asked to see what we were doing , we were giggling so much , she would say , ‘ What are yer giggling at , yer little monkeys ? ’ |
| 2 | Roger I 'd 've given it you a lot quicker if you 'd given me a list of jobs to work on . |
| 3 | It 's also interesting for the odd solo — listen to The Who 's I Ca n't Explain to see what I mean . |
| 4 | The woman had left the bags and O saw she was walking back to the child , he heard her heels , but O did not stay to see what she did to the child ( and so he did not see her pick the child up in her arms and hold him tight ) ; he turned quickly , and left the station as fast as he could . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , when I got to interview him he fell asleep within five minutes . |
| 6 | You do n't want to lose what you have worked so long to achieve , so beware of hard-sell techniques . |
| 7 | had a message saying the mailer was about to shut down and I did n't want to lose what I 'd typed in . |
| 8 | That study , more than anything else probably , made me want to see what we could do in making services more adaptable and appropriate and comprehensive . ’ |
| 9 | She did n't want to see what she had done to his craggy yet handsome face , so she made him go away . |
| 10 | ‘ If you do n't want to see what it 's like I sha n't bother wasting my time . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't want to see what it looks like . |
| 12 | Because they were overthrown and the others were taken off into captivity into battle life , and what a life they had , the one of slavery , so at that time because they took no note , because they were destiny instructions to Jehovah for his word and again want to see , they had eyes , but they just did n't want to see it they knew , all the whys and wherefores and what the responsibilities were , but they did n't measure up to them and because of that many of them lost their lives , and if they did n't they were taken into captivity , Jeremiah four , in verse twenty two , again another prophecy sent to them exactly over the same message , the same reasons describes to them as being a , er people that is foolish and of me they have taken no notice Jeremiah four and verse twenty two . |
| 13 | I do n't want to see I I deeply deplore the divisions between left and right and the accentuation of often very phoney distinctions and mislabelling that goes on . |
| 14 | ‘ You look fine , and anyway , if you do n't want to see anyone you can go through the annexe . |
| 15 | Er the developers as we all know have a right to go to appeal which they did and |
| 16 | Okay , can you explain explain what you mean in that . |
| 17 | Casual observers tend to see what they expect to see , and naked-eye observations of the full Moon are a case in point . |
| 18 | Each decision must be examined to see what it discloses . |
| 19 | But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said . |
| 20 | But when Brian goes to see them he goes with his first wife , who they call Granny . |
| 21 | Late risers always exasperate early risers like myself , who hate to miss what they know is the best part of the day . |
| 22 | Again , we have evidence from fieldwork about the functions of these alternants : one man of 27 commented that during his years away from Northern Ireland , he had stopped using what I have called the in-group alternants of the ( pull ) set . |
| 23 | Take legal advice if you want to , but I intend to know what it was that your uncle confided to you . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ What you laying down there for ? — We got to find something we can reach him with , something he can hold on to . ’ |
| 25 | And then she starts demanding to know what they 're going to do and he keeps saying they 're gon na write , they 're gon na write , they 're gon na write . |
| 26 | When the railway workers slid the door open and saw him , they shouted at him , demanding to know who he was . |
| 27 | Mistakenly supposing that their moral beliefs are innately given , people are liable to continue to accept what they have been taught as young children . |
| 28 | And you mum I 've got yeah , will do erm I 've forgotten what I was gon na say now . |
| 29 | Ideally , that should n't be important , of course , since both TrueType and Adobe fonts ought to perform equally well ( I do n't want to get into an argument about which is better here ) , but adherents of one or the other will want to know which they 're using — and when you 've got over 200 fonts on your system , as some folks do , you ca n't always remember which is which . |
| 30 | Then there were the nice people who were n't interesting , and you did n't want to know what they thought of anything . |