Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sick to death of looking over my shoulder every time I come here , wondering and dreading if someone who knows me has seen me and can guess what I 'm coming here for ! ’ |
| 2 | I 've spoken to Ockleton , just as Heather did , and what he told me has led me here , just as it led her . ’ |
| 3 | That fellow behind me has got one too . |
| 4 | Each of them has reached me and I know not how to save myself . ’ |
| 5 | He and his son are largely responsible for the countless impressions of Rembrandt 's graphic works , repeatedly reworking the plates so that Rembrandt 's authorship of them has become something of an ethical dilemma . |
| 6 | Ever since , work with and for them has filled their lives . |
| 7 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 8 | The cap that happened to get overlooked returns the reader 's gaze blankly yet unavoidably , like the bill from a restaurant abroad which the conspirators find when they turn out the dead man 's pockets , and like the child 's clay whistle which one of them has provided himself with to give the agreed signal — for he has lost so many teeth that he ca n't trust himself to produce the sound naturally . |
| 9 | Or perhaps I should say , ‘ Another of the Black Sumatras has done it ’ — for our three sooty chickens of this exotic breed are indistinguishable from one another , and we can not be sure which of them has excelled itself . |
| 10 | Well in that case and they 'd been stopping them for us you see and er excuse me stopping them for us and whoever decided to speak to them has had his few words and that 's it carry on . |
| 11 | Jaguar insiders say the company bosses — all 14 of them — are so enthusiastic about the car that every one of them has claimed he 'd spend his own money to buy one if it goes into production . |
| 12 | Yes it might I 've seen it spelt both ways . |
| 13 | Erm not any more I do n't I 've given them all away hello , are there any spare handouts in the room ? |
| 14 | Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that . |
| 15 | See I 've had my hair cut and I did n't even use any of it . |
| 16 | You see I 've had it here , I take it quite often , I take |
| 17 | And you mum I 've got yeah , will do erm I 've forgotten what I was gon na say now . |
| 18 | ‘ I can see I 've surprised you , ’ Mr O'Hara apologized over dinner . |
| 19 | you see I 've got one in the front room and I had this one put in so then I say if I am in the kitchen , I say , I lift up the receiver , hello , and hear who it is and then I , I say hang on while I get round the chair and then you see I sit on the arm of this chair and talk because er it 's difficult to stand too long |
| 20 | I 've seen I 've got one , there all noes . |
| 21 | Yeah you see I 've got one quite a good broody , you see , |
| 22 | See I 've got one , I can see , cos that frequency 's funny on this |
| 23 | , see I 've got it . |
| 24 | You see I 've got it down again , I ca n't get it up |
| 25 | oh I ca n't I 've got me trainers on |
| 26 | I 've lots of ideas for these , but as they are all quick to make I 've left them for next month when you have finished your special presents and they are neatly folded and packed away in all their glory of tissue paper and gold and silver ribbons . |
| 27 | But erm and all the old mill for milling that we used to used I mean kept our hands clean anyway . |
| 28 | When I got elected I got elected because the erm roads in this county were in a six hundred year repair cycle . |
| 29 | If I got stopped I 'm grabbing Albert and he 's coming down to get changed too ! |
| 30 | ‘ Twenty years ago when I got married you could only get squares with royal icing and gold stuck all over them . |