Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos people often used to say to me because I 'd , I 'd played everything you could play except golf , and , and er , and I , I , people used to say you did two men 's work and you I , I met a chap one day , this was an instance , I 'm not trying to blow me trumpet do n't think that at all . |
| 2 | Leaving me to continue cleaning up , my husband climbed the ladder into the roof space to see what the situation was there . |
| 3 | so all that writing is actually surrounding your picture is n't it , you 've come up with your sensational picture and then you surround your sensational picture with your writing , I was saying to him with these little sub-headings like trapped , right , cost , holiday , okay which actually keep your reader hooked and make them want to read on . |
| 4 | What was it about the name that made them want to funk on down and start praising the Lord ? |
| 5 | My own tears , hot noisy gulping that burns and blotches , that neither you nor any of the women in the group is going to offer to staunch , tears of anger for myself and all of us , anger with the women in the group for making me face up to what I 'm doing to you , for making me want to take out those dusty bundles of old stories from where they 've lain for my lifetime tied up with pink ribbon and reread them and throw them away . |
| 6 | And yet , wrote Harsnet , it is this which excites me , this which makes me want to go on . |
| 7 | The river bottom was ridged sand , a difficult and unkind footing , that combined with the cold and the rush to make me want to go fast while forcing me to go slow . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've got that ego that makes me want to jump up and down , ’ he explains later . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've got that ego that makes me want to jump up and down , ’ he explains later . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've got that ego that makes me want to jump up and down , ’ he explains later . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've got that ego that makes me want to jump up and down , ’ he explains later . |
| 12 | You have n't shocked me , you have n't horrified me , you have n't made me want to cry yet |
| 13 | ‘ When I first saw the portrait , though the clasp did n't consciously register , my subconscious must have picked it up , because something I could n't pin down nagged at me , and made me want to look again . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't until I met you , but loving you made me want to know how twins could be so different . |
| 15 | It made me want to run out and play the first two albums post haste , which is no bad thing . |
| 16 | It made me want to throw up ! ’ |
| 17 | You make me want to throw up ! |
| 18 | I think about buying some fags but the headache 's still there behind my eyes and I have the feeling smoking a cigarette would make me want to throw up . |
| 19 | ‘ You make me want to throw up . ’ |
| 20 | It made me want to throw up . |
| 21 | It makes me want to roll up my sleeves , ’ McQuaid said in praise and plain enjoyment at the prospect of it as the plates were put on the table . |
| 22 | But it also makes me want to work harder , ’ Navratilova said . |
| 23 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 24 | The upshot was that after much argument all three of them agreed to help out , and all five of us did manage to get to the church on time . |
| 25 | What she 'd had was a double-booking , effectively , cos she 'd had this dinner which was meant to be in the private dining hall , but the numbers had suddenly shot up , and because they 'd said originally they wanted either the private dining hall or the main dining hall depending on numbers , she should have really booked them both and decided later and told me to like try somewhere else , but she did n't , she told me yeah the dining hall 's free . |
| 26 | ‘ Jack and me got married very quietly yesterday afternoon . ’ |
| 27 | The Brigadier appeared and , after much foot stamping and saluting , everyone got lined up and ready to move off , but not before the Brigadier insisted that there should be a bodyguard of four Commandos to protect the Piper . |
| 28 | You ca n't really expect me to go fishing about underneath your bed if I do n't even know what I might find under it , now can you ? ’ |
| 29 | You want me to go jumping out of Dorniers again at five thousand feet in the dark like last time over Ireland and you try to hand me that kind of bollocks . ’ |
| 30 | But you did n't expect me to go rummaging around in Paula 's diary , did you ? ’ |