Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so he drifts towards vanishing point : ‘ One may argue about everything endlessly , but from me nothing has come but negation , with no magnanimity and no force . |
| 2 | It was an enormous subject upon which we had embarked , and I felt that , as a minor guest of the monastery , I must not monopolize the time of the guest whom everyone wanted to meet . |
| 3 | Life will get even tougher for those whom everyone loves to hate — estate agents . |
| 4 | ‘ These 'ere smugglers is a dangerous bunch from wot I 've 'eard ! ’ |
| 5 | Experience next to thee I owe , best guide , not following thee I have remained ignorance . |
| 6 | Till dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge , as the Gods who all things know . |
| 7 | And , indeed , as befits someone who 's hovering on the edge of idolatry , even her vocabulary has gone a little pagan ‘ Till dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge as the Gods who all things know ’ , and then what I think is a brilliant touch on Milton 's part , the very next line says to us ‘ Though others envy what they can not give ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Everyone I know wants to see Flashman leave . |
| 9 | Everyone I know seems to have a small , broken family : sometimes broken up by death , sometimes by divorce , usually just by disagreement or boredom . |
| 10 | Lastly , everyone I 've spoken to on the subject would shorten the length of the bass by cutting off the V-shaped cleft in the headstock , which adds nought to the decorative aspect of the bass . |
| 11 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
| 12 | ‘ Almost everyone I met had lost at least one relative , some had lost several , and families had been scattered hundreds of miles apart , ’ said Mr Thomas . |
| 13 | I 'VE ALWAYS SAID I CLIMB MUNROS EVERYONE I GO CLIMBING MUNROS WITH |
| 14 | It is clear from everyone I asked to comment that I was not alone in thinking the evening was a resounding success . |
| 15 | Of course , everyone I had met today had this wide-eyed look ; the wounded , the jeep drivers , and the Commandos occupying the weapon pits . |
| 16 | EVERYONE I have spoken to about the New Zealand tour of Wales agrees that , if they are going to be beaten by anyone , it will be by one of the clubs rather than by the national side . |
| 17 | Everyone I have spoken to about him — without exception — brought up his reading , the breadth of it , the compulsion , and the evangelical enjoyment he took in passing on what he had read the night before . |
| 18 | Nearly everyone I meet seems to be doing something these days . |
| 19 | ‘ Everyone I meet seems pleased that I am not a merchant banker or barrister from London , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Speaking of Deano — everyone I talked felt that as we had paid £2.7 million for a centre forward would n't it be nice if hung around near the goal or in the box for that matter instead of running all over the show and when we finally get the ball in the box there 's nobody there . |
| 21 | ‘ When I saw death coming towards me I began to think it had been a bad business for me to kill that guy . ’ |
| 22 | and erm , ha , got home , did n't wan na go out , there was me I got changed , I put on those new leggings I was all in black I thought I looked rather nice , you know , and Gary said what you all dressed up for ? |
| 23 | The day you joined up , she came to tell me I 'd driven you to it . ’ |
| 24 | It were me , me dad , me dad and mother , me I 'd got two I 'd got er one brother and two sisters . |
| 25 | Which reminds me I meant to get weighed this morning before I had my breakfast . |
| 26 | and you read the number to me I said to see if I 've got it right . |
| 27 | Well when you all went , as you all left , when the last lot of redundancies were made , I said I 'm not paying no more union , Judith come over about the union meeting , I said I 'm not going to the meeting Judith and I said I want to come out of the union I 'm not paying any more , I said I ca n't afford ten pound a month for crap , well me and Jan had a big barney over it cos I never got on with her anyway and we had a big fucking row about it , she said the union this , the union that , I said where were the unions with my mates , they were n't in damn site , they were never there , we never saw one union representative from the day Audrey got done and we never ever saw erm till the last one got done , I said so do n't you tell me about the union I said they did fuck all , they were n't even here , so I said I do n't want to pay the union , and I said do n't tell me what to do Jane , I said what I do with me money is up to me I said get me out the union and get me out now , and then they all started , they all wanted to come out of it then , oh Maureen I think I might but what would Debbie say , I said Maureen do you ask her for a shit ? |
| 28 | I said and that 's if for me I said parting company if we go to dinner we stay together ! |
| 29 | ‘ The League informed me I had to sell my Middlesbrough shares or resign as a Darlington director . |
| 30 | ‘ I was n't sure about making the sharp turn into the fifth fence , but Ted told me I had to go the fast way everywhere otherwise I had no hope of winning , ’ Mac said . |