Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rights , which constitute the groundwork of the State , inhere in individuals by virtue of their being members of society : ‘ A State which neglects them fails to build its foundations in the hearts of its citizens . ’ |
| 2 | He also has the rather unenviable job of being the go-between between the leadership and us , which means he has to tell us any things which ‘ are not done ’ ( for example that I ill-advisedly introduced Confucius into one of my examples ) , and also has to clear any demands we make with the leadership . |
| 3 | That politico , Gorbachev , is an amateur , a provincial hick who thinks he 's made it big . |
| 4 | ‘ Edith does not keep her Jewish faith , as she thinks it has brought her too much trouble ’ , reported Rabbi van der Zyl . |
| 5 | I say she thinks she 's got it together just because she 's American . |
| 6 | She thinks she 's found it . |
| 7 | Any asshole who wants it gets to read my file . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ She says she keeps hearing someone laughing , ’ said Betty . |
| 9 | She says it has made me think why is there no local transport readily available . |
| 10 | if , as she says he 's repaired it so many times ! |
| 11 | She feels she has to say something . |
| 12 | It is a story with which all machine knitters are very familiar and although there are no magic wands there are many ways out of the hole that she feels she has dug herself into . |
| 13 | Harvey said , ‘ Mercy 's got a kind of thing about , the old man — Midwinter — she feels she has to support him . |
| 14 | But no , she 's gone for this promotion in work and er even though she does n't think she 's much chance of getting it because there 's two permanent lads there that really you know would be next in line rather than her sort of thing but she 's you know , she feels she 's done her bit and that , you know , it 's worth going for and like I said to her you might as well ! |
| 15 | But like a lot of these graduate entry people , she feels she 's got something to prove . ’ |
| 16 | Tom Berenger is an amnesia-suffering crash victim who suspects he has murdered someone in the stylish thriller Shattered . |
| 17 | If you 've got responsibilities of a family and you 've got to keep them , then , as a mother she knows she 's got her children to look |
| 18 | She 's she 's cut it well . |
| 19 | And here she 's telling Ruth , now what you 've got ta do , she 's she 's got him , she 's got her introduced to Boaz and she tells him it 's a strange custom , one that 's perhaps even stranger in our eyes today but there er after the party , the great harvest supper she 's , the the they lie down in the barn together , they all just , they 're tired it 's , it 's , the party 's gone on into the wee hours of the morning , and there they just , they do n't bother going home , they lie down there in the barn together all of them and she says to Ruth what you must do according to the custom is , you go and you lie at the feet of Boaz and wait , just wait , and wait for him to respond to you . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sick to death of looking over my shoulder every time I come here , wondering and dreading if someone who knows me has seen me and can guess what I 'm coming here for ! ’ |
| 21 | Everybody says it does pay you to have the house looking fresh . |
| 22 | He thinks it makes placing your own gear sound like an activity practised by people with one foot in the grave — although climbing at Gogarth has always made me feel like that anyway . |
| 23 | he thinks he 's done it |
| 24 | He thinks he 's fooled us . |
| 25 | ‘ He thinks he 's got it made , but he realises things are n't quite what they seem and the question is , what is he going to do about it ? ’ |
| 26 | He thinks he 's found us a suitable plane . ’ |
| 27 | He has he 's broken his little sequence there , twenty-one . |
| 28 | He says she 's got plenty of time to have babies , but for now she 's got to focus on her career . ’ |
| 29 | He says he remembers watering his horse , and even though it is only a trough , it 's important to the town . |
| 30 | They 're too large , but he says he 's seen me wear the colours . |