Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many more ants would need to go up into space for them to see themselves in perspective . |
| 2 | If I 'm going anywhere where I want them to see me as a ‘ teacher ’ you know with all that that implies , then I 'll wear my wedding ring . |
| 3 | For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’ |
| 4 | We allowed them to see us at our most absurd . |
| 5 | Sanay just ask me to drive you into town , baby . ’ |
| 6 | We will know in advance and will stop them using everything in our legal power . |
| 7 | Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom . |
| 8 | I wonder if the , the director plans to talk about the cri criteria we will work towards with the independent erm living fund and I wonder if we could possibly accommodate something within the criteria because I think the number of people involved needing adaptation to their home over about five thousand is fairly small but for those people it will make the difference between them being able to remain in their own home or within the community care package , a vast sum of money being needed to be spent on them to accommodate them within residential accommodation . |
| 9 | Poor people do n't want a millionaire among them reminding them of some way in which they failed to make it . |
| 10 | In waking life it was too strong to allow me to indulge myself in secret feasts , and I no longer felt any desire for them . |
| 11 | Eventually , one of them attacked it with a large branch , striking it a damaging blow . |
| 12 | Let everything out into the open and then let them hurt you with it . |
| 13 | So , whilst they may encourage an atmosphere of informal comradeship and sociable learning , college teachers are not your equals and you should not expect them to treat you as such . |
| 14 | If climbers hugged themselves in delight in the knowledge that they had the monopoly on daft , death-defying behaviour , their hearts must have sunk to see people above them launch themselves off cliffs , strapped to a parachute . |
| 15 | ‘ You expect me to accommodate you in that ? ’ |
| 16 | That was a nice picture — Marie liked it I think , cos she did n't mind me sticking it on the wall . |
| 17 | ‘ Would you prefer me to carry you to your dressing-room , strip that gown from your body , and dress you myself ? ’ |
| 18 | Do n't let me fool you into thinking that all the third category bureau are bad , some develop into excellent typesetting houses with none of the pre-conceptions of the old brigade , it 's just the majority who are dodgy . |
| 19 | they 've made it so as it , it do , you see I , I , I reckon you ought to open my let me make them in te in steel because er they made them like that so that when you pull them off or adjust them |
| 20 | He also added that Moore had never asked them to forgive her for throwing their lives into grief and chaos . |
| 21 | I ask them to forgive me for not taking interventions . |
| 22 | Some story about a raid , that was it , them finding ST with a stainless steel jig screwed to his pate , them sticking him in a sack , jig and all . |
| 23 | Then he added , with a sudden burst of frankness , ‘ I reckoned the news would seep out anyway in time and cause them to lose plenty of sleep . ’ |
| 24 | Boys pouring into the room below , laughing , chattering , me seeing them through the crack . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's very rude of me to burden you with my troubles . ’ |
| 26 | It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress . |
| 27 | I heard enough to make me think it worth my while to talk it over . |
| 28 | ‘ Part of me hates him , ’ he admitted , ‘ and the other part of me hates myself for feeling jealous of such a fantastic guy . ’ |
| 29 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 30 | I was anxious to settle the terms of the contract with M. Chaillot and , because I wanted to avoid being cornered by him in Passy , I suggested to Jean-Claude that he make an appointment for me to see him at the radio , mid-morning , on a date when I had a luncheon appointment . |