Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , it was nice to sit and eat my lunch in peace , with no-one to interrupt me but it is not nice every morning to ‘ bye ’ and leave him in someone else 's care . |
| 2 | His objective seems to be to make Wells out as obsessive , though far more violent food images could be drawn from Dickens ( ’ I 'll eat my head ’ , in Oliver Twist , etc ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't ever , ’ and Donald took another breath , through his mouth this time , as if he 'd only surfaced for a moment , ‘ do n't EVER eat my beans again . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd rather eat my shorts ! |
| 5 | Please do n't make me eat my words |
| 6 | The day was moving on faster than I was now and a heat haze shimmered over the Tarn as I came to its banks to sit and eat my lunch . |
| 7 | If he comes back , I 'll eat my hat . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't eat my pheasant , ’ said Lydia , ‘ being so absorbed in my book . ’ |
| 9 | And if that does n't sound better than a Paul Daniels tape , I 'll eat my copy of Nobody Does It Better by Carly Simons . |
| 10 | ( 1b ) I did eat my porridge . |
| 11 | Seriously , if Fairclough is n't man marking Shearer on Sunday I 'll eat my hat . |
| 12 | I 'm getting so expert with my chopsticks now that I can almost eat my soup with them — actually , that 's not so silly as it sounds , as the soup often contains large lumps of meat and veg . |
| 13 | You 'll eat my bubble squeak when that 's cooking , but you wo n't eat it . |
| 14 | I ca n't eat my coleslaw . |
| 15 | Yeah , I did n't eat my dinner . |
| 16 | I 'm gon na eat my dinner . |
| 17 | Young Donald coolly considered his grandfather 's staring look of fright and answered him deliberately : ‘ No — I would not dirty my ’ hands on a bit of a teacher . |
| 18 | Jason : I do n't dye my hair , I use — — |
| 19 | I think I might dye my hair blonde you know . |
| 20 | I would throw my boyfriend out , but I 'd be scared of living alone . |
| 21 | No , I wo n't dilly-dally down the Primrose Path , wo n't throw my |
| 22 | Having lost weight , I was beginning to ‘ throw my weight around ’ . |
| 23 | Would it be false if I could actually ‘ throw my voice ’ so that it seemed to come from somewhere else ? |
| 24 | Whereas at the time it was a thin old wicket — you know , ‘ Madness are a bit thick and they do come out with some bollocks sometimes , so I do n't know if I can throw my weight behind them ’ . ’ |
| 25 | I shall throw my bouquet to one of you at the wedding and who knows , there might be another wedding in the not too distant future for somebody . |
| 26 | Unfortunately my voice has seized up so that all I can do is throw my four stones at the iron handles . |
| 27 | ‘ If I like , I 'll throw my dinner on the floor and put clams in my hair and have tantrums , and … ’ |
| 28 | Ca n't throw my life away , can I ? |
| 29 | The secret I find and you may over the next day or day and a half to a couple of days you may well see me just do that occasionally I 'll just throw my hands back down to me side . |
| 30 | You must remain my Chancellor . ’ |