Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose you think bringing me home gives you the right to tell me which friends I should choose , do you ? |
| 2 | It 's very reassuring because it could be quite daunting but all these are friends I 've met before and so it 's lovely to see them here supporting me |
| 3 | Woodlice feed mainly at night , so to see them actually feeding you need to look at them during the evening . |
| 4 | Do you want me just to leave it ? |
| 5 | Do you want me just to catch you something first Alex ? |
| 6 | She had tremendous will-power , and the locals reckoned she would outlive everyone just to spite them , yet she was so senile she was practically imb -senile ! |
| 7 | Some of them do n't want them either thank you . |
| 8 | As long as we can get them inside , we do n't want them outside do we ? |
| 9 | She does n't much want them actually to touch her . |
| 10 | You do n't want them now do you ? |
| 11 | Do you prefer me then to get it all from Rosette Fournier ? ’ |
| 12 | So I did n't know anything about it you know , till somebody asked me Well asked me really , Mr 's going away is n't he ? |
| 13 | In sum , in the contention which attended or , as some might prefer , the dialectical process which generated the structural change represented by the measures contained in the Reform Bill , the Whigs by proposing and the Tories by opposing them finally identified it as the exclusive issue on which people would stand up and be counted , for or against , yes or no . |
| 14 | He got me so riled I lost a race this afternoon I should have won . |
| 15 | peas about , yeah but he does n't , he does n't eat them much does he ? |
| 16 | So it looks awfully fresh the wretches made me almost squashed it . |
| 17 | ‘ If A delivers goods to B on sale or return and B having received them immediately delivers them to C on sale or return , the reasonable time in the one case must , I think , be co-extensive with that in the other case and if that reasonable time elapses and C brings back the goods to B and B takes them back to A , everybody is acting within his rights , and it appears to me that property never passes … if under like circumstances A delivers goods to B and B delivers them to C in each case on sale or return and the reasonable time be , let us say , 14 days , and C after four days sells the goods or elects to buy the goods , I think property will have passed , because C will have done an act which renders it impossible for B to return the goods to A. ’ |
| 18 | I did enjoy our cup of tea together , and thank you for trusting me enough to tell me about your husband 's alcoholism . |
| 19 | I do n't think I even liked him very much . ’ |
| 20 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
| 21 | I do n't think I ever saw her again . |
| 22 | I do n't think I ever saw it . |
| 23 | I do n't think I ever gave him a wrong 'un , though . |
| 24 | I think I like particular standards , but I do n't think I always keep them . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't think I quite follow you , ’ she said . |
| 26 | Well , I do n't think I quite realised it even then . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't think I really believed it for one second . |
| 28 | Why do you think I bloody married you ? ’ |
| 29 | I could be wrong , and if Kelly plays I sincerely hope he has a good game for if he does n't he may not recover from it , as he will always be known for ‘ screwing it when the Republic needed a win in Windsor ’ . |
| 30 | If Joseph wanted Sabine Jourdain dead , as Barbara Coleman says , then he probably got someone else to do it . |