Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they raised the question of authority only in the most ambiguous terms : ‘ we have yet made no mention of change in authority nor has it even entered our hearts , but seeing that France and the Queen Regent here , her priests , etc. , intend nothing but suppressing Christ 's evangel … we are fully purposed to seek the next remedy and withstand their tyranny ’ . |
| 2 | It 's more of a trick to see if we can get artistic freedom within a business structure — to see if we can create things and sell them without charging five times our cost . ’ |
| 3 | You probably hate me for saying that . ’ |
| 4 | Return to any parts that cause residual difficulties and repeat them before moving to the second objective . |
| 5 | ‘ If your friends ’ mothers despise me for working in a supermarket , then they are to be pitied . |
| 6 | Pardon me for thinking they were important , pardon me for feeling beautiful and lyrical , pardon me for loving you . |
| 7 | Pardon me for thinking they were important , pardon me for feeling beautiful and lyrical , pardon me for loving you . |
| 8 | ‘ Pardon me for livin' , lady . ’ |
| 9 | Pardon me for intruding . |
| 10 | Well , pardon me for belching , but what we 're talking about here is a virtually unparalleled ( in this musical medium , at least ) honesty and open-ness that so far has hampered the Kitchens ' career like a rucksack full of rocks . |
| 11 | ‘ Pardon me for jumping to erroneous conclusions . |
| 12 | Pardon me for thinking they were important , pardon me for feeling beautiful and lyrical , pardon me for loving you . |
| 13 | ( … sorry I 've got to go , sorry I 'm late , sorry I 'm so pretty , sorry I 'm a housewife , sorry I 'm not pretty enough , sorry it 's my fault , pardon me for breathing , sorry I 'm a woman . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , pardon me for breathing ! ’ |
| 15 | Pardon me for saying so , that 's a lovely pen . |
| 16 | You may cut the towelling into large squares , and then you can come and be my nurse — and God help you , McAllister , if you hinder me by starting to have fine lady 's vapours . |
| 17 | Yet Account Executives ( AEs ) push them into investing in futures capital they can not afford to lose by underplaying the extent of the gamble , emphasising the potential gain . |
| 18 | At this stage we merely introduce them in passing ; we will return to them in greater detail later on . |
| 19 | To make the most of fragrant flowers such as these sweetly scented golden and white freesias and white lilies , display them by massing the flowers closely together in side-by-side containers . |
| 20 | Because nobody understands us , and we hate ourselves for needing to be understood . |
| 21 | Yu want me fe look like yu |
| 22 | They criticise me for getting a new curtain or taking a holiday . |
| 23 | If Modernists criticise me for copying the old , I tell them it takes a lifetime to do it well . |
| 24 | On one level , it did not prevent some respondents expressing disparaging remarks about Catholics , nor dissuade them from giving opinions on controversial political issues . |
| 25 | ‘ And please forgive me for butting in on you like this . |
| 26 | Come kiss me and tell me you forgive me for exposing you to so much danger and distress . |
| 27 | So it 's a very great honour and privilege for me to address you today because at the end it may be difficult for you to understand but when I return to South Africa , and forgive me for speaking personally I also realize the full meaning of the support of British trade unions and the labour movement and the churches because it was because of your political material and particularly in the case of the G M B , financial and material support that it gave us the means to do what some of us wanted to do about our country and our situation , and bring about change if we could peacefully . |
| 28 | In which case forgive me for writing as I have done . |
| 29 | Forgive me for assuming my role of dyke agony uncle once more , but really , lovey ! |
| 30 | Here , ’ he held out his hand to her with a little smile , ‘ take my hand to show you forgive me for alarming you . ’ |