Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Then make sure you know which they are and check them to see they have not been removed or weakened . |
2 | Sally-Anne closed her eyes , opened them to see him lift his hands to cover his face , his head bent , shoulders bowed , his world in ruins about him . |
3 | I did n't want them to see me crying . |
4 | We do n't as yet have any friends in the street , but we 're on Hello terms with a few neighbours , and frankly I would n't want them to see me putting all these flowers on a skip . |
5 | The maintenance of such records in departments was traditionally seen as enabling them to see who did what , when , where and why , and what were the effects of these actions . |
6 | anyway he walked , he was only away about twenty minutes you know he wanted to get the car and for me to drive I thought well er |
7 | ‘ I felt for a lot of years I did have a lot to lose , when there was only one way to go and that was down , and when things did n't go the way I wanted them to go I blamed others . |
8 | Never let them think she knew they fancied her . |
9 | And it 's always a good idea to let them think you 've got better enchantments in your armoury than you actually have , if you take my meaning , even if you have n't got any enchantments at all . |
10 | ‘ You 're trying to make them think you 've been coming in to see me ? |
11 | To illustrate the way many of them operated he cited the case of a widow who in 1894 borrowed £50 from a London loan bank on the security of her furniture which was valued at £250 . |
12 | You do them up , you do n't da you muck them out , dress them over , let them loose they have a easy time like we do . |
13 | A to help men get sexually aroused , B to make them make them look like women 's legs , C to prevent men getting sexy aroused ? |
14 | And we 've got to help them make it come true . ’ |
15 | The fact that Lili seemed to take an interest in me led me to think that she had never been very close to my mother . |
16 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
17 | she said you let them treat you like that , |
18 | I remember being at my desk and telling her , ‘ Even if you do n't hear me typing it does n't mean I 'm not writing … . ’ |
19 | ‘ I thought you wanted me to treat you like a sister ? ’ he threw over his shoulder . |
20 | And she 's kept trying and that 's what makes me think she 's got |
21 | Let me think who did it |
22 | You let me think you had a serious boyfriend , that you were on the point of marriage . ’ |
23 | Do n't frown , Alexandra , it makes me think you did n't want to come . ’ |
24 | what made me think you see it 's right at the top where the morning then |
25 | The angle of the lamp cord on the bar made me think I saw a hearing-aid cable extending from Fielding 's ear . |
26 | Er ye well er , it was when , no let me think I went to Ipswich , I did a till the First War ended . |
27 | It was n't a sound I ever remembered him having made , but certain things about it made me think it came from Quigley . |
28 | I looked behind me to see what appeared to be a solid forest of standing Tory MPs from county constituencies anxious to ask questions about their own particular rail lines . |
29 | A couple of months later he did come to the Hammersmith Odeon with Bernie and me to see them play I could seethe relief on his face when he realised they really were a band . |
30 | For all that , it disturbs me to see him portrayed as Hüsker Dü 's creative force when Grant Hart had at least an equal hand in writing their material . |