Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time you 've bought them some cigarettes and given them some money for the pub and said well if there er and the car has n't got any petrol so you pay for ten pounds worth of petrol . |
| 2 | I went to my doctor who gave me some pain-killers and told me to rest . |
| 3 | Nogai gave them fresh orders and sent them away again . |
| 4 | I pulled down my damp bloomers and changed them for a warm , dry pair that were hanging on the line over the fire . |
| 5 | The sweat was running down your back all day and I 've seen me taken off my white clothes and hang them up and they were still wet when you come in the next day . |
| 6 | ‘ Come on , Griselda , I 'll change into my outdoor clothes and meet you in the yard with my broom in five minutes . |
| 7 | While Miller was preparing the Kalendar , he was told of the ‘ ungenerous intention ’ of others to use Dictionary information for the same purpose , ‘ upon which I was the more intent to have it published before such a design could be accomplished by any other hand , which was not very difficult for me to do , having a complete Diary of my own , so that I had little more to do than to transcribe my loose papers and dispose them into the method wherein they are here presented to the world . ’ |
| 8 | They took all my own clothes and gave me a nightgown . |
| 9 | ‘ Because my family were lawyers and self-employed , I 've always had the feeling that I would rather hold my future in my own hands than have it in somebody else 's . |
| 10 | First she disarms us : ‘ Several seasons of guiding city folks down white water rivers both sharpened my squatting skills and assured me I was n't alone in the klutz department . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Give Cornelius my best wishes and tell him I hope he gets well soon . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm usually quite clear-minded , but it was strange the way my unconscious set to work , pushing back my maternal goalposts and persuading me that another year or two would do my hoped-for child no harm . ’ |
| 13 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 14 | They had removed their tall hats and placed them on their knees . |
| 15 | The outflow of labour from agriculture has denuded many villages of their working populations and replaced them by inhabitants who work in towns and cities and who are not dependent upon farming for their living . |
| 16 | Everyone appreciated her saintlike qualities and loved her . |
| 17 | The chlorine will irritate their skin and gills , disrupt some of their metabolic functions and subject them to a huge amount of environmental stress — and stress is the number one killer of fish . |
| 18 | She designed a print room based on an eighteenth-century concept , by cutting out black and white prints and their hanging bows and pasting them on to an apricot Regency background . |
| 19 | Martha Simmonds and her companions vested in Nayler their apocalyptic hopes and accompanied him into Bristol in October 1656 , leading his horse while they cried ‘ Holy , holy , holy ’ . |
| 20 | Older people , on the basis of chronological age , are progressively removed from economic life , which provides them not only with income , but structures their daily routines and integrates them into regular social relationships . |
| 21 | As Ann Butler led Sarah towards the stairs , to help her out of her wet clothes and rub her down with dry towels , Jonadab seized her hand in both his . |
| 22 | And the fact that the film is not frightened of its sexual aspects but treats them with some taste is another point in its favour . |
| 23 | The German budget deficit soars as Chancellor Kohl bribes Hitachi and Toshiba to close their German operations and transfer them to Northern Ireland ; a relieved Toshiba says ‘ IRA terrorists are rank amateurs compared with Nazi thugs ’ . |
| 24 | Across the meadows he could see the flats of the council estate , the sun striking their plate-glass windows and making them blaze as if the whole place was on fire . |
| 25 | By the time I see her put on her high heels that make it worse though . |
| 26 | All the same , she badly needed some air and solitude , so she stepped out to the veranda , closed the door silently behind her , slipped off her high heels and held them in one hand , then padded on silent stockinged feet down the back stairs and into the garden . |
| 27 | It collects these flakes with the brush near the end of its hind legs and passes them forward to its mouth where it kneads them with saliva . |
| 28 | We and i it 's , when we had sprouts it used to get its hind legs and pull them down and start ploughing at them . |
| 29 | It is quite commonplace for me to thrust my hand past my ferrets , grab a rabbit by its hind legs and pull it past the ferret . |
| 30 | Florence Ames took off her old shoes and left them on the step . |