Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was on two bags a day when I went to see me GP and I was on between a quarter and half a gram when I got to the hospital . |
| 2 | I 'd pretended to lose my temper and he spotted it . ’ |
| 3 | It nearly killed them to acknowledge my existence and they only spoke in monosyllables when I was present , but the babble of sound which broke out every time I went out and closed the door behind me was enough to make me want to go rushing straight to Miss Malley to beg her to send me back to my friends . |
| 4 | and the thing is Lyn the thing that er used to piss me off was she used to wear my knickers and I ca n't stand that . |
| 5 | I went to see my therapist and he kept talking about the bank manager . |
| 6 | you see , and he was , he , he probably brought me into the world , you see but , er you see , and Mrs erm , you see , she was married to Doctor and he used to come up to see my father and we had a different door then door being that 's got a yale lock on now but he he 'd say , hello Frank , you know always so you got , oh he was so nice and it was such a shame that he died |
| 7 | ‘ I want to see my father and your man here wo n't let me . |
| 8 | I went to see my doctor and he wrote everything down and listened with his head on one side and a finger in his ear as if he was listening to folk music . |
| 9 | And with an involuntary movement I raised my eyes to the sky — where God was — beseeching Him , wanting Him to see my fear and my contrition . |
| 10 | Eventually , I recover , and come to enjoy my mother and my old school friends , and the easy , sunny inertia of L.A. I swim every day and I love the blue sparkle of the pool , the glare of the sun and the sky on the water , and myself cleansed and pristine in the chlorinated wet of my morning routine , pre-smog , post-dope ; boys with blond moustaches saying , ‘ Have a good one ’ ; my baby blue Rent-a-car . |
| 11 | Lina said , beaming , ‘ My English gets very good , Señorita Shelley , and Señorita Richards one day when she is stronger will come to Santa Barbara to meet my mother and my grandfather . ’ |
| 12 | Ulrike Meinhof , I ask you to accept my tears and my gratitude … |
| 13 | It 's alright Kerry it 's just that Graham has come to do , to observe my teaching and he 'll be wanting to sit there , is that alright ? |
| 14 | They both I mean they I think they 've released four documents outlining the way in which they 're going to meet their commitments and they one of their the Guardian gave devoted page six the whole of page six to this . |
| 15 | Content to remain spectators , they can not reasonably complain about the way the political game is played by those willing to suffer its tedium and its tensions . |
| 16 | They used to pinch her tabs and everything , so she tried to hang herself . |
| 17 | It has to be , you think , the product of a group of pained souls , shadowy wordsmiths burning with intensity , desperate to communicate their anger and their enthusiasm . |
| 18 | It was because Pound behaved always in the spirit of this remark that he could not fail to offend Englishmen of the type of Beerbohm and Bowra , and that he continues to offend their likes and their successors ( in all social classes ) at the present day , as , for instance , his confrere T.S . |
| 19 | Then , to increase her income and her reputation , she plunged into business enterprises for which she was ill-equipped and inexperienced ; in three or four years she had lost most of her money and people refused to work for her , ‘ it was advised about the town … that neither man nor beast would serve the said creature ’ . |
| 20 | Bathsheba 's eyes filled with tears , and she did not try to hide her anger and her injured pride . |
| 21 | The legal advice is part of a smokescreen being put up to hide its intentions and its concern . |
| 22 | The support of the staff and their willingness to adjust their provision and their reaction , clearly demonstrates that given the proper approach teachers are in both principle and practice more willing to review their methods and sustain alternatives than is usually acknowledged . |
| 23 | The pubs had begun hiring marquees to contain their overflow and they put them to good use by putting on entertainment — a disco , a barn dance or jazz music — on the Friday and Saturday evenings . |
| 24 | This change arose from a realization that war provided opportunities for the nobles not only to increase their honour and their prestige but also to enrich themselves . |
| 25 | The only effect of an increase in government spending is to increase their taxes and they are opposed . |
| 26 | In figure 6.2 , the users pass through a number of menus to indicate which system and which part of the system they require to use . |
| 27 | When Sir Adam appeared on HTV 's " Press Call " , I arranged for Giles to meet his hero and they had lunch together . |
| 28 | However , Clifford invited Laura home to meet his wife and she spent the night at the Clifford 's home admiring their eclectic collection of artefacts . |
| 29 | But I feel that the weak point in the imagery is in the use of ‘ pathetic fallacy and this is clearly shown when Pip is about to meet his benefactor and there is a raging storm outside to show change |
| 30 | The same firm immediately sacked him , because they would have to increase his wages and he 's never had a proper job since . |