Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , we must recall that the mental conflicts which I am identifying as the origins of human society and civilized behaviour — essentially those portrayed in the story of Oedipus — were as intensely painful and unpleasurable to those who experienced them then as they are to those who experience them in our own times . |
| 2 | And then Boy cut back to the man on the bed , who was saying ( actually it was a different man in a different room , Boy realised ; the sofa and the quilted nylon counterpane were in a different colour in this room , though the man sitting there looked just like the last one ) , the man was saying I like your shoes , please take off your shoes ; and Boy cut backwards and forwards between this man and the politician beginning to lose his self-control and saying I would just ask people to forgive me really and to forgive my wife as well . |
| 3 | ‘ Nothing irritates me more than righteous indignation , ’ he said lightly . |
| 4 | Squeeze them together and on an outward breath let them go . |
| 5 | Now take your concentration to your hands , make fists and squeeze them together and then let them go . |
| 6 | It would probably throw me completely If you |
| 7 | it would throw me completely if you put , if you changed some of the number plates over . |
| 8 | BADGES have long been a cheap , effective way of making a statement — whether it 's Ban The Bomb or I Love Madonna — but do n't throw them away when your fervour wanes . |
| 9 | He had an idea that Dinah might not be permitted to open her own letters , or perhaps would throw them aside if there were too many admirers ; but surely she would take notice of the sketch . |
| 10 | ‘ Do you remember bringing me here when I was very new to Monte Samana ? ’ |
| 11 | The old and lonely are very vulnerable , and if you have sounded detached , preoccupied , or hurried during the conversation they can easily feel hurt and rejected ; and that hurt can be like an emotional graze that will remain painful until you are able to see them again and heal it . |
| 12 | Happily she waved back , realising just how pleased she was to see them again and when , moments later , she climbed into the crowded bus with David behind her she was deafened by welcoming voices . |
| 13 | and then I come back and then I went to see them again and they were all on a great big table as though they were celebrating a party and Joyce said er |
| 14 | And you really have to see them before and after . |
| 15 | We should not have expected to see them there if we went again . |
| 16 | He bored easily and though he loved beautiful women of all dimensions and aspects , he had rarely bothered to see them twice if there was not some fire of the spirit or intelligence to intrigue him . |
| 17 | Overall , the most fruitful way to examine the interaction of courts , executives and assemblies is to see them all as engaged in a continuous process by which the law and rights are constantly being defined and redefined . |
| 18 | I was in the bank , so he came to see me there and introduced himself . |
| 19 | I do n't know what the drink was — brandy or whisky — I had that much , I had it twice , so that the lads had to see me home because I was more or less drunk . |
| 20 | And they say yes we will , our business teach teacher told us about that you see because it 's been happening a lot , cos Marks and Spencers do n't ask for a receipt you see , it actually happened , they used to take things from upstairs , bring them downstairs and said they bought it and got the money for it . |
| 21 | Bring them together and all will be served . ’ |
| 22 | I wan na get him another towelling dressing gown because the blue one he had on the caravan he brought home for the winter bring them home and wash them . |
| 23 | Bring them home and tell them that you 're taking them home to air . |
| 24 | Helen advised the women to leave the children asleep while they checked on their houses , and Jinny Bennet offered to stay with them and bring them home when they woke . |
| 25 | The room , reached this time from the veranda , was just as lovely as she had remembered , and after folding some clothes neatly in drawers and hanging the rest on satin-padded hangers in the wardrobe she fussed for quite some time with the scanty collection of knick-knacks she had brought , trying to arrange them so that they harmonised with the tranquil simplicity of the décor . |
| 26 | She said you were using me just as she had been used . |
| 27 | Their sensual lives consisted in picking up half-drunk girls in pubs and spending the night with them , perhaps only seeing them once or twice more , or never again . |
| 28 | Jack grew dizzy as he thought of it , seeing them sitting with tall glasses on a shady patio and , strangely , seeing them too as they were now , untouched by the hand of time . |
| 29 | I risked them seeing me so as to try to hear , but in fact by the time I could hear them they were shouting , which meant I could listen through the doorway without seeing them or being seen . |
| 30 | The Minister did not answer me earlier when I tried to raise a point about the period of between six and 16 months . |