Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't have rushed passed me into the bedroom , seized the bottle as a convenient weapon — he could n't have known it was there , anyway — and then dashed back out to hit me before dragging me … do you see what I 'm saying ? ’ |
| 2 | The first , and most obvious , is the desire to prevent the unjust enrichment of criminals by prohibiting them from exploiting their crimes . |
| 3 | Have you forgiven me for calling you ‘ carrots ’ ? ’ |
| 4 | This can insulate them from considering it in more political terms . |
| 5 | He made them by scattering his droppings over the sky and this is why the grass and the trees grow so thick on the world . |
| 6 | Zilog has filed a complaint against two subsidiaries of Nippon Electric in the US , accusing them of copying its Z80 microprocessor . |
| 7 | She at once sent me a terrified letter , accusing me of concealing my marriage plans from her . |
| 8 | My telephone has not stopped ringing with colleagues accusing me of changing my allegiance and forsaking my birthright . |
| 9 | Had General Francis not had his two sticks propped against his chair as a tangible reminder of his condition , and had he not , as had now been explained to me , been making this social call to thank me for nursing his son after paying a second professional visit himself to Bernard Remington-Hart , his appearance and that Rolls outside would have frozen Margaret into a prissy caricature of her normal self . |
| 10 | Another shows the converse , a humanoid god standing between two daemons : he is mastering them by grasping their tongues . |
| 11 | However , one day I my colleague attacked me for imposing my ‘ middle-class values ’ on the children because I had emphasized polite speech and decent manners in my sessions . |
| 12 | In practice , almost any useful algorithm incorporates aspects of both approaches , but for the moment , we shall explain them by emphasising their differences . |
| 13 | " He asked me to met him several times a year , I tried to advise him , to tell him how I saw things in the world . " |
| 14 | They remain hidden until it is threatened , when it displays them by turning itself upside-down . |
| 15 | He rebuked me for liking it . |
| 16 | And , however bad their crimes against us were , they always justified them by saying ours were worse . |
| 17 | As a bachelor it seemed slightly shocking to Rupert that a colleague , even though an anthropologist , should think nothing of abandoning his wife when she was ill . |
| 18 | In their present mood people would think nothing of mortgaging themselves for years ahead in order to acquire some trifling luxury like a jar of brandied peaches or a few leaves of tobacco . |
| 19 | ‘ The sort who would think nothing of putting their rubbish out on the side of the road , ’ as one observer noted , ‘ but who still feel very strongly indeed that there should be no goldmining here . |
| 20 | Do n't imagine you can flatter me by telling me I 'm not really a feminist , because I am , and I find your denials extremely insulting . ’ |
| 21 | She would occasionally reward Thatcherite newspapers , such as the Express , with a gracious , unrevealing interview ; on television , Sir Robin Day and Brian Walden would flatter her by pretending to be tough , and she would flatter them by pretending they were . |
| 22 | Pardon me for thinking they were important , pardon me for feeling beautiful and lyrical , pardon me for loving you . |
| 23 | Pardon me for thinking they were important , pardon me for feeling beautiful and lyrical , pardon me for loving you . |
| 24 | ‘ The Parliamentary system is n't there to give people a say in how the country is run but to delude them into thinking they have some power . |
| 25 | Things which , to my mind have been totally illogical — and yet nothing on this earth would have stopped me from doing them . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ For instance , we can fool someone into thinking it is bedtime when the sun is still shining outside . ’ |
| 27 | Charles joins me in wishing you a perfect holiday , dearest Theo , |
| 28 | The D G joins me in wishing you every success in your future career . |
| 29 | Manipulating people by tricking them into doing something which is against their best interests is clearly bad . |
| 30 | After you 'd totally devastated me by saying you did n't find me remotely attractive , I was left racking my brains to think of a way to change your mind . |