Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] the [noun pl] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And really he 's got to , I mean , you know , alright with work wise I mean he 's got to take even if , I mean the kids these days , I mean , even at Neil 's age , I mean you know , I 've come the conclusion now these kids they think the world owes them something ! |
| 2 | But only when you go in the shop , I find the colours this year are rubbish |
| 3 | A collective resolution of this sort of worry was at one time to employ someone to patrol the streets all night , calling out " Three o'clock and all 's well ! " or whatever , at regular intervals , providing reassurance to the sleeping citizens in their beds and even more so to any insomniacs . |
| 4 | The supercool star is proving luckier with the song , which entered the charts this week at No 26 . |
| 5 | ‘ He believes it was the cannon at Waterloo which caused the clouds such haemorrhage ! ’ |
| 6 | Open enrolment provisions , which remove the limits some LEAs had previously put on schools in their area , demand that all maintained schools accept pupils up to the limit of their physical capacity . |
| 7 | The cases so far decided do not exhaust the possible factual permutations which give the courts such difficulty in distinguishing between leases and licences . |
| 8 | HP-style credit is really money lent to buy things — and credit agreements which left the lenders any rights to take possession of things bought under them should be seen as if those things had been bought on mortgage ( ‘ chattel mortgages ’ ) ; |
| 9 | You want the controls this end ? |
| 10 | ‘ And you want the children some day ? ’ |
| 11 | Mm Have you enjoyed the wallflowers this year ? |
| 12 | The people who moved the instruments each day to the studio had a vested interest in persuading us that the Philharmonie was no good ; people even said privately that the change must be resisted at all costs because the coffee was so much better at the church ! |
| 13 | Could you give the offices some details , rather than having it all out in public , thanks . |
| 14 | ‘ What I do n't understand , ’ I said harshly , and in an attempt to steer the conversation away from compliments , ‘ is why you give the twins enough money to buy themselves drugs in the first place . ’ |
| 15 | So I had to walk from the , you know the flats half way down Ashton Lane ? |
| 16 | It was A … who arranged the chairs this evening , when she had them brought out on the veranda . |
| 17 | Instead , for instance , of saying a plant was ‘ biennial ’ , it was explained that you plant the seeds this year and they will flower next year . |
| 18 | It was just that people saying things like that reminded me of one of my all-time favourite cartoons where Dr Watson is saying to Sherlock Holmes : ‘ But if you saw the conditions these Moriartys had to live in , you would n't be so quick to judge . ’ |
| 19 | As she unfolded the pages this time , looking for the picture of Harriet Shakespeare with her son , Jinny 's hands were trembling . |
| 20 | So if you learn the words this way thinking well do I know a word that 's a bit like it and could I add a bit onto the end that 's another way another good way of learning cos you do n't have to learn class and classical and classic you just sort of learn one of them . |
| 21 | We know the ropes this time and we will fight on . ’ |
| 22 | We are quite clear , and we were clear when we conducted the talks this summer , that they were not peace talks because they would not bring an end to the violence , but were one of the pressures that can be mounted against the terrorists . |
| 23 | Ann S one A the only one to enter the quoits this lot |
| 24 | ‘ They moved the guns this morning right in front of him . ’ |
| 25 | This was a bar that er went under the bomb like that when they fastened them up , and then when they dropped the bombs this bar was in a clip , like where me finger is , i in a clip so when they released them it dropped out of this clip the bar went as well of course , down that went down went the bomb drop bars with it used to be make them day and night and things like that and er of course there was er Bloxwich Lock and Stamping we used to do odd stamping , odd forgings and things li and er that was other part of the war work . |
| 26 | The Etruscans put their burial places outside their cities , and due to the care with which they constructed the tombs many examples have been discovered intact , from the eighteenth century onwards . |
| 27 | it 's not like a good enough reason for him to call the characters these names , like if they do n't have that much significance . |
| 28 | I watched her shuffling the cards that night , and could n't decide if she was beautiful or hideous . |
| 29 | Given this background , the minister of posts , telecommunications and space , Paul Quiles , was treading on eggshells when he met the unions this week for the second in a series of talks concerning the reform of the country 's post office , the PTT . |
| 30 | He ignores the profiles these tests produce , having yet to see a meaningful correlation between personality and business success . |