Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone in the audience has asked me to greet them the way the chimpanzees greet each other in the wild at Gombe , ’ Jane Goodall began . |
| 2 | Er now let's go back over oh first of all let me explain what the idea is Hello . |
| 3 | Her own family has suffered the anguish of repossession , and her personal story of how her local Liberal Democrat-controlled council helped them made her the winner in the school 's mock election . |
| 4 | His clever course management in the wake of continuous swing problems had made Olazabal a huge favourite with the Sun City galleries , many of whom rated him the superior of Seve Ballesteros , a two-time winner of the event . |
| 5 | Can you please let me know what the position is with regard to order number 026 that I placed with you for the above tape to run it on VAX 3500 running ULTRIX , at either 6250 or 1600 bpi ? ( ordered on 12 May ) |
| 6 | If we are able to make use of the track in the way specified I would be extremely grateful if you could let me know what the cost will be . |
| 7 | If we are able to make use of the track in the way specified I would be extremely grateful if you could let me know what the cost will be . |
| 8 | If we are able to make use of the track in the way specified I would be extremely grateful if you could let me know what the cost will be . |
| 9 | If we are able to make use of the track in the way specified I would be extremely grateful if you could let me know what the cost will be . |
| 10 | But although I asked myself the question , I knew the answer . |
| 11 | I asked what the rest did but he must have heard it before because he was not amused . |
| 12 | Just on the shall we say off-chance I asked what the situation was regarding additional lines between Norwich and Crawley as between Stansted Norwich and Crawley to see if there was anything under way and what the approximate cost would be because erm well I know there 's more D D I facilities now . |
| 13 | After checking that I was not talking to the media , I asked what the nature of her enquiry was , and she proceeded to furnish me with the facts . |
| 14 | I asked somebody the way out and she offered to show me . |
| 15 | If those , all of those contract temps are regarded as full time people it looks like full time people are working overtime , which is why I asked you the question yesterday erm what 's the overtime bill for quotes alone . |
| 16 | Er , now , I asked you the table set have n't I ? |
| 17 | In that last summer before he died I read him the whole of Proust … |
| 18 | I made myself the timetable you know . |
| 19 | After drawing a blank on Rhodes , I had to write something that justified my travelling expenses , so I made you the villain of the piece . |
| 20 | Well I mean it 's gone much beyond that I mean they the reality of the situation is er is not like that I 'm afraid I mean it Eighteen men have been sacked and and these are men that have put those quarries where they are . |
| 21 | Er so I mean that c because er I mean they the steel balls and steel rollers go into the bin I mean they ca n't be used for anything . |
| 22 | well perhaps , but women get very angry as well , but nothing seems to change , I mean what the heck do you do about it when some estimable er gentleman and it almost invariably must be a gentleman since their by far the huge proportion of er presiding judge 's and magistrate 's comes out with that kind of comment about er a woman 's victim reputation or behaviour as he sees it , I mean what is , what is the answer there ? |
| 23 | But I mean what the pay relative to us the cost of living and everything else , I do n't know . |
| 24 | I mean what the fuck are you gon na do with the tickets ? |
| 25 | I mean what the Bible calls ‘ the fellowshipping of yourselves together ’ . |
| 26 | The famous sequence when the helicopters gather in the sky before the great attack has music with it — very familiar music ! — but , do you know , I was so gripped by the power of Coppola 's image , the helicopters , the music , that it was n't until many , many hours afterwards that I realized what the music was he had been using . |
| 27 | I was just silently congratulating myself on tumbling her secret at last when I realized who the man in the photograph was . |
| 28 | If we take sentences without contexts and devise interpretations for them on the basis of the mutual compatibility or otherwise of the type-meaning of the words in them , we are putting ourselves under constraints which have nothing to do with syntax ; by thus restricting and deforming our appreciations of the structure we prevent ourselves seeing what the effect of the syntax , qua syntax , is . |
| 29 | I goes what the hell 's it look like , I 'm going to sleep ! |
| 30 | I sold him the car did n't I ? |