Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I got a distinct impression he did n't want me to see what he was writing . |
| 2 | Do you want me to change what I buy , do you want me to change the time I do it ? |
| 3 | Any way that you can think of that will help to get these axes right because most of the time it 's going to be this sort of thing I mean you said , Do you want me to work it you know use the graph or just work it out from this . |
| 4 | He did n't make me do anything I did n't want to . |
| 5 | I do n't want them doing what I 've done . |
| 6 | There are days when some of our residents are quite determined that you are going to enable them to do what they want to do , even though what they want to do is completely ridiculous , like going out in the rain without a coat on . |
| 7 | Helen asked me to explain what I meant , and listened carefully to the long story of what I had suffered at Gateshead . |
| 8 | Later he called me to a meeting of the Executive Council and asked me to say what I thought the principles of the Department should be and how they could be implemented . |
| 9 | ‘ Dr Jones asked me to tell you he was off to tea . |
| 10 | ‘ The director wants to see you right away , Marianne , and Dane asked me to tell you he 'll be down in just a few minutes , Shae , to finish off his costume fitting . ’ |
| 11 | McAllister , who had put the doll down , and was now fetching out her work basket to embroider pansies on some fine lawn dresses made for the bazaar by the aforesaid ladies , said , ‘ I did n't mean to become involved , you know , but Matey has been so kind to me — when not slave-driving me , you understand — that when she asked me to accompany her I had not the heart to refuse , and strangely , after I began to work for the bazaar , I found that it was most rewarding . ’ |
| 12 | Their movements reflect their aural memory at work ; their own ‘ inner speech ’ is helping them to interpret what they read . |
| 13 | It kept me awake at nights , it made me forget what I was doing during the day . |
| 14 | ‘ However , there are a lot of good players from around Europe playing on the Swedish Tour and it made me realise what I have to do to make it as a pro . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd guessed Donna had a twin sister — somewhere — and I — oh , I know this sounds silly , but I 've been thinking about it , ever since the transplant was mentioned , before Juliet made me realise who she ws . |
| 16 | The first I new was Chris 's sudden , shocked screaming , with an urgency that made me drop what I was doing and run across the room to the open verandah . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've seen him myself , or else hearing about it has put me in a special state of mind , and all the other factors have come up right , atmospheric conditions , combinations of light and dark , what you like , and made me create what I believed I was seeing . |
| 18 | ‘ It really made me appreciate what I have — my job , my family and my home , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Mr Brown 's respectful reception of these corkers made me wonder what he looks like . |
| 20 | That made me wonder what he wanted , so I stood and watched . |
| 21 | ( ii ) It is probably clear to the reader that , although we are trying to work formally and to assume nothing other than that given , we do not choose our definitions of unc and unc in a perfectly random fashion , but rather make them reflect what we want to happen . |
| 22 | Make them do what we know is for their benefit as well as our own , and all difficulties in China are at an end . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Because I do n't think I knew what I was daeing either . ’ |
| 24 | But before that before the sell out concert tour in Ireland , did you ever think I wonder what they 'll think of us back home I wonder if we 'll still do it ? |
| 25 | As soon as I realised I told him it must stop , but the next thing I knew he was spouting the same fiction to a reporter . ’ |
| 26 | And meanwhile we 'll keep going you know and er and do what we have to do which is to make sure that when they get dow when they get round to that table sitting down that well certainly the the quarry men are not gon na be hungry if if you know what I mean I mean they they gon na sit there with full bellies in a sense that they 're not gon na be starved back and I mean th that sounds rather dramatic and a cliched but I mean when you 're living on the bread line and expecting money from week to week I mean that 's what it 's all about is n't it you know and and the food parcel . |
| 27 | Can I just quickly erm I know what you mean I know what you mean . |
| 28 | It 's bound to harm , I mean I know what you said when he had all that problem , he sort of said reckon cos I smoke . |
| 29 | But I mean I know what you mean . |
| 30 | I mean I know what it 's like to be Black . |