Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye , well you get nothing for grumbling do ya ? |
| 2 | The nature of these changes , then , can be seen as some confirmation that the trends identified by Dearlove were genuine enough , but that working them through has taken much longer to achieve and involved much more upheaval than his initial analysis would have suggested . |
| 3 | He thanked me for helping take care of his grandmother . ’ |
| 4 | In our debate on that , the hon. Member for Wealden ( Sir G. Johnson Smith ) challenged me for daring to challenge the Prime Minister about whether the system would work . |
| 5 | But at last I learned to know what a lie was : to induce my mother to stop beating me I would lie — I would say , yes , I had lied and was sorry , and then she would whip me for having withheld the admission so long . |
| 6 | Forgive me for having addressed you so informally , Miss Bishop . ’ |
| 7 | When it disappeared from the catalogue and by chance I was offered a knighthood , I always said that the Queen , coming as she does from an angling family , was compensating me for having had my name taken out of Hardy 's catalogue . |
| 8 | ‘ Well ! ’ he said , ‘ I hope you 'll forgive me for having knocked you down that day . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 've said nothing about getting married . |
| 10 | ‘ Anne and Maureen have said nothing about wanting to join anything yet . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'll have your work cut out to do that — to say nothing about having to contend with Matt 's opposition to the idea . |
| 12 | I criticise them for refusing to accept that they made a mistake and for refusing to take any action to put matters right , when it was patently obvious that everything was going disastrously wrong . |
| 13 | ‘ We are grateful to them for helping to liberate Belgium , ’ he says . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't blame them for trying to make a bit of cash , but it gets ridiculous when they insult you for refusing to pay for something you did n't want doing , ’ fumes Mel , 39 . |
| 15 | It would be nice if the NHS could do this , but you ca n't blame them for trying to raise money in other ways . |
| 16 | An enormous amount of skill , equipment , patience , money and sheer luck goes into the breeding of new varieties , and if it has become customary to have to be seen to be introducing six , eight , ten , a dozen or whatever new varieties every year in order to be regarded as one of the top flight nurseries , then that is what they have to do — and who can blame them for wanting to recoup their investment by selling all they can ? |
| 17 | Still hats off to the both of them for agreeing to work as shop assistants for the day to raise money for AIDS charity , the Terrence Higgins Trust . |
| 18 | But environmentalists have criticized them for failing to address Southern countries ' real needs . |
| 19 | But what , then , are we to make of it when , in 1939 , writing an obituary of Ford , Pound lumped together two old associates of his , Fred Manning and Henry Newbolt , and excoriated them for continuing to use the ‘ poetical ’ diction from which Ford 's timely polemics had weaned Pound himself ? |
| 20 | The second was a letter to everyone who had volunteered , thanking them for offering to come , and saying when to turn up and what to bring . |
| 21 | ‘ Dora , did n't you say something to me about trying to have a word with Dieter yesterday morning , before you went off to your interview ? ’ |
| 22 | And you see there 's no permanent fence to the fields and so therefore I could put gates up at that road if I wanted to , but the Council has never consulted me about going to look at it , or going over my road . |
| 23 | What irritates me about going shopping in any supermarket is having to bag my own goods up . |
| 24 | Her husband muttered something to me about going to find her and then stormed off . ’ |
| 25 | 36 , or relating to protection of the environment or the working environment ’ shall notify such provisions to the Commission , and the Commission may confirm them after having verified that they are not a means of arbitrary discrimination or a disguised restriction on trade between Member States . |
| 26 | ‘ After all , I 've come to see someone about volunteering to go on a special mission to America . ’ |
| 27 | I would never discourage someone from trying to start a group . |
| 28 | Charles emptied his before continuing to castigate Neville Chamberlain . |
| 29 | We pride ourselves on having secured excellent , often especially upgraded , inflight services for our customers and offer a large number of Saturday departures . |
| 30 | We pride ourselves on having won the propaganda war . |