Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was easy to convince him of his worthlessness-to make him believe he was capable of such an act . |
| 2 | If the vicar thinks it does he is mistaken . |
| 3 | So he fought with him and and took his stick from him and gave him a whack on the head and he dropped , and the story goes he says we 'll go home now lads . |
| 4 | We 've received help from the Countryside Council for Wales towards the costs of writing and research , and we have a Welsh Office grant to enable us to translate it into Welsh . |
| 5 | We 've received help from the Countryside Council for Wales towards the costs of writing and research , and we have a Welsh Office grant to enable us to translate it into Welsh . |
| 6 | Oh it 's obvious that safety 's involved , I think that er it 's also er road use because er if people take a long time er going forwards and back trying to get into a space to park because they do n't have the basic skills to enable them to do it , then it 's frustrating for other motorists , and obviously accidents can be caused . |
| 7 | Sir Henry was very unhappy about this , but Holmes asked him to help us by doing everything Holmes ordered him to do . |
| 8 | My Mum goes what have you been phoning Billy for ? |
| 9 | ‘ William made me sell it . |
| 10 | But when I returned from military service in 1960 , my employers asked me to represent them south of the border , in that troutless land beyond Mr Hadrian 's Wall known as England . |
| 11 | Presumably they imagined their confidences led him to regard them with disgust or pity or contempt . |
| 12 | Our traditional British reserve made them think we were very hostile and resented them being here , and their extrovert camaraderie we regarded as showing off . |
| 13 | And a few months later the Prince asked me to marry him . |
| 14 | And then , realising that his presence needed further explanation , he added , ‘ Jim asked me to keep him company until his sister gets here tomorrow . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Buck thinks he has it in the bag , but there 's a long way to go yet . ’ |
| 16 | he has no plans to retire he enjoys it too much |
| 17 | Honesty made her admit she had hoped , but it had been merely dreaming , nothing like this harsh reality . |
| 18 | Why when Mercutio assaulted you did you try to fight the enemy instead of Mercutio ? |
| 19 | some artists expect us to make them stars . |
| 20 | Lisa found herself watching him as they chatted about this and that , quietly amazed at the easy way he fitted in with them . |
| 21 | She handed me Little Ben , advised me not to let Home Sister catch me leaving it so late , and took herself off . |
| 22 | Very occasionally his path crossed that of a couple walking home or a group of a young friends going up to the centre , and then the brief appraising glances they gave him left Zen feeling obscurely ill at ease , underlining as they did his lack of purpose or direction . |
| 23 | In the evenings the merchants invited us to join them as they sat chatting on their cots in the middle of the courtyard . |
| 24 | It had taken her virtually the rest of the afternoon to find someone to take her . |
| 25 | What sort of a racehorse d' you think you get for a hundred quid ? |
| 26 | Philippe wants me to run it again in October . ’ |
| 27 | I suppose Isabella wants me to hate him ! |
| 28 | Sunnyvale , California-based MasPar Computer Corp wants us to know it shipped 13 MP-2 massively parallel machines in 1992 , calling it a ‘ faster-than-projected start-up ’ for a box introduced in October 1992 . |
| 29 | I know I pulled him out once but how many times has he pulled me out ! |
| 30 | And they 're just looking at you and your Mum s your Mum wants you to take him out properly , walk him down the street and you 've sneaked him outside and they 're just looking at you like this |