Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They looked just like those horrible Yahoos , and at first I could not let them touch me or come near me . |
| 2 | Hindley says he is wicked , and ca n't play with me or eat with me any more . ’ |
| 3 | That was the whole point and the way , it was like , he could he could hit , he could , he could hit me or go like that to my hair or run his fingers through my face , rip all my clothes up , you know what I mean , not rip them off , rip them up ! |
| 4 | There was obviously some sort of sexual element to it but I just did n't know what to do next and expected this man , who was about two or three years older than me , to , in some way , tell me or indicate to me and so I followed him without talking to him . |
| 5 | ‘ Afterwards — she would not look at me or speak for a long time . |
| 6 | ‘ Remember , the range on this thing is quite long enough for me to dispose of you at any moment should you try to desert me or plot against me . ’ |
| 7 | He did n't want to see me or talk to me , he or his parents . |
| 8 | You have two choices — flee from me or belong to me . ’ |
| 9 | It does n't include the unregistered and unmeasured unemployed — women with men who have to maintain them or claim for them , and those whose dole is exhausted but who are disqualified from supplementary benefit because they live with wage-earners . ) |
| 10 | Those on the sidelines tried not to see them or know about them , but it was difficult . |
| 11 | You should never talk to them or go in their cars or houses . |
| 12 | It can be a fairly minor loss , like social status or face — some people suffer agonies for fear that someone will laugh at them or sneer at their taste or intelligence , for example . |
| 13 | We can speculate that there is a psychological motive for this switch , with Adele using a change of code to indicate that she is only reporting these words and does not herself " stand behind " them or vouch for their validity . |
| 14 | ‘ Most of the time we were so busy rushing the posters out that we did n't have time to read them or think about what they said , ’ said Mr Mark Roblett , 27 , the elder of the two brothers whose south London company came to the aid of both parties . |
| 15 | To prevent starvation on more plebeian trains , passengers had to take all their food with them or leap from the train the moment it drew into a station and rush for the buffet . |
| 16 | They will be put under the strain of doing jobs for which they are unsuited and as a result will either leave after a short time , have the humiliation of being told they are unsuitable , or cause difficulties for other staff who have to rely on them or cooperate with them . |
| 17 | Gina could crawl in beside them or sleep on the sofa downstairs if she preferred . |
| 18 | At decision point B in Fig. 8.5. we do not know the full scores of the paths , but we can try to look ahead and estimate them or extrapolate from current scores . |
| 19 | Whatever formal characteristics Lyons might attribute to English in theory , in practice it would be difficult for him to sustain the claim that ‘ it is possible to address someone or talk about someone in English without indicating one 's relative social status or attitude ’ . |
| 20 | Probably I shall meet someone and fall in love with him and marry him and things will seem to change and I sha n't care any more . |
| 21 | If you love someone and wan na be with them , that 's got to come first . ’ |
| 22 | Why has this major change in attitudes come about , and why all this concern about health in an affluent Western world where we can congratulate ourselves and count on our good fortune in having all the benefits of modern medicine to protect us unlike the peoples of the developing world ? |
| 23 | We must learn to hold ourselves and move with an economy of effort , using no more than the appropriate amount of energy for any activity . |
| 24 | Let us instantly go to my closet or yours and come upon our mutual trial for you have fired by soul with impatience . |
| 25 | You have to start from a pain of yours and conceive of there being something like this which hurts but which does not hurt you , and also that there could be something which is like you but not you for such pains to hurt . |
| 26 | ‘ You can give me that warrant for Demontis . |
| 27 | There are three themes which stand out to me that run throughout the book that are all in some way or other interlinked . |
| 28 | ‘ I suppose you sent me that gilgul as a friendly gesture , then , to lend a helping hand on the Gittel job . ’ |
| 29 | I had written my reasons for so thinking ; but as they were not satisfactory to the other noble and learned Lords who heard the case , I do not now repeat them nor persist in them . |
| 30 | I do n't think there 's many of them that go to football anyway is there ? |