Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I passed the bakery on my way home , Didier ran out of the shop to greet me and asked if he might accompany me . |
| 2 | A year beforehand , Chudnovsky , who was a collector from Leningrad , and a very well-known one , had been to see me and asked if I could help him . |
| 3 | Well I , I was sitting in my house one night on the , I think it would be er nineteen fifty four , and a deputation came up from the ward committee to see me and wondered if I would join the council . |
| 4 | the City Council 's remains as efficient as possible , and erm most all the posts that we have at present , we believe are necessary , but we do continue to monitor them and see whether it is necessary to continue to employ all the people that we are employing at the moment . |
| 5 | ‘ There were a few kids who came up to meet me and said that they were n't going to vote until they heard what I had to say . ’ |
| 6 | As a working detective , it would take six months of living with a mate to trust him and know that when it came to the Crown Court appearance he would know exactly what to say . |
| 7 | They can not be attacked in hand-to-hand combat either — the only way to destroy a Fanatic is to shoot him or to wait and let him collapse from exhaustion . |
| 8 | Not even the fantasy that one of the Tsar 's descendents was preparing to come out and offer himself as a leader within Russia itself , defying the authorities to arrest him and prove that they had n't changed after all . |
| 9 | The Men were outside his cage trying to open it but failing because the branch had buckled it . |
| 10 | Or he 'll have to sell it and disappear before I can ( could ) get to the police . |
| 11 | Give traffic plenty of time to see you and stop before you start to cross . |
| 12 | For their part , Sonnabend agree that Halley has the right to leave them but claim that he should have honoured his verbal agreement to put together the 1991 May show . |
| 13 | If in the opinion of the court a summons for recovery of land can not be served in accordance with Ord 7 , rr 4 – 10 , an order may be made on request in N 220 for service on the husband or wife of the defendant , a person living with but not married to the defendant , or upon anyone who is or appears to be authorised by the defendant to reside or carry on business in the premises , to manage them or to safeguard or deal with the premises or contents thereof ( Ord 7 , r 15(1) — ( 3 ) ) . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman knows that we are determined to sustain adult education , to extend it and to ensure that it is properly based in the local community . |
| 15 | Most people refused to believe them and said that they had been faked in Hollywood . |
| 16 | When she saw him do this , Melanie knew he was going to kiss her or to try and kiss her . |
| 17 | It would , I consider , be wrong to read it as requiring that in every case where a witness is shown to have made a previous statement inconsistent with his evidence at the trial , the jury should be directed that such evidence should be regarded as unreliable : see Driscoll v. The Queen ( 1977 ) 51 A.L.J.R. 731 , 740 , per Gibbs J. , with whom Barwick C.J. agreed , at p. 734 . |
| 18 | We all know he still fancies her he 's just trying to , you know keep it he 's just trying to forget it and try and act as normal as possible with her and hopefully things will get back to be back to what , what they were . |
| 19 | It 's a shame to spoil it and go and have a rotten meal there . |
| 20 | I 've been meaning to talk to you , but you 've ducked out of the building so fast after finishing your show these last two days , ’ she told him when he stopped to greet her and ask if she had heard the brilliant spontaneous earthquake joke he 'd cracked on air that morning . |
| 21 | On 26th May , Hunt came to see him and said that he was taking over the purchase negotiations for the Downing Street scheme , and particularly upset Pennethorne by producing one of Pennethorne 's drawings to assist him in the work . |
| 22 | When I said she did n't , he rang for his chauffeur and told me he was going to see her and asked if I wanted to go with him . |
| 23 | At first I was totally humiliated , and then I suppose in my heart , I truly believed that in that one week that he was mine , I could teach him to love me and to forget that Rachel even existed . |
| 24 | Erm it 's in Leeds erm and they know that I 'm going but I may need to call them and say that I 'm sending somebody else because I ca n't possibly go anywhere during the day on Wednesday . |
| 25 | One view of the administrative task is to see it as planning and decision making ( Simon , 1976 ) . |
| 26 | The offence is committed not just by a trader who supplies consumer goods that are not reasonably safe but also by a trader who agrees or offers to supply them or exposes or possesses them for supply . |
| 27 | When the latter siege had ended successfully , Molla Yegan came to Mehmed II to congratulate him and remarked that his prayers had continually been with him . |
| 28 | On one of Dr Forman 's visits , she managed to waylay him and ask whether her daughter should see a specialist . |
| 29 | They continued to pay her while rehearsing and with seven other Girls , she was sent on tour round England . |
| 30 | Of course , it is natural to examine a text in the light of what we know of ambient domains — its author , the period in which it was written , and so on — and to regard it as exemplifying or representing something of more general interest . |