Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Do n't make me split me sides , ’ said Dolly , ‘ you can talk all right , do n't I know it . |
2 | Yeah he was gon na make me had it over . |
3 | It 'll make me wet my pants . ’ |
4 | ‘ I hoped you 'd say that — why do you think I brought you here , where we can be alone ? ’ |
5 | Why do you think I brought you down to his place if it was n't so that I could stake a claim on your patience — make you listen to what I have to confess because there was no way you could run away from me — flag down a taxi , catch a bus and head for the airport ? ’ |
6 | ‘ I do n't think I met anyone who was having her baby adopted . |
7 | I do n't think I got one . |
8 | ‘ Where do you think I got it … . the bloody fishmongers ? , ’ he replied , with mock exasperation . |
9 | But I do n't think I got it . |
10 | Why do you think I told her those stories , the other night , about demons getting their comeuppances ? |
11 | ‘ Of course , why do you think I asked him to attend the opening of the store ? ’ |
12 | No I do n't think I saw him on , on the return one . |
13 | ‘ Because I do n't think I knew what I was daeing either . ’ |
14 | In fact , I do n't think I knew what the word ‘ erudite ’ meant until I met Kenneth . |
15 | I do not think I knew who Plato was at the time , but I enjoyed hearing Mr Crossman speak , and seeing the other pupils , although they were mostly people thought of in the town as being particularly well-educated already . |
16 | ‘ Why do you think I chose him to work with me ? |
17 | I do n't think I finished it ! |
18 | We should never have let the world think I wrote them . |
19 | I do n't think I believed it till then , that she was gone , I mean . |
20 | They 'll think I blurted everything out . |
21 | ‘ If I was 17 I 'd probably think I had nothing to lose either . ’ |
22 | You do n't think I had anything to do with kitting out this place , do you ? ’ |
23 | ‘ You do n't really think I had anything to do with — with whatever 's happened ? ’ |
24 | I I do n't think I had anybody in my family who was a spiv . |
25 | ‘ I do n't think I had it last , ’ she said defensively . |
26 | And he said er , no , he said I did n't think I had he said , but now , he said I realized that how I , was forgetting er I 'd be talking and I 'd forget sort of what I was just talking about that split second . |
27 | No , there were two or three in my handbag , I do n't think I took it out |
28 | I do n't think I heard him whinge once . |
29 | ‘ I do n't think I heard you right , Patricia , ’ Mike said , looking Patsy in the eye . |
30 | Well I called a meeting but I did n't think I advertised it well enough because there was a lot of interest and then I think we held it at the wrong time as well did n't we , |