Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | As for the women , the government seems not to regard them as human beings at all , unless as in the days of the British Empire the fact that they are women can be used to deny them basic rights or torture them in special ways . |
| 6 | And then the next time I 'll probably give you some intervals and ask you what they are . |
| 7 | What do you mean , shut them big doors and lock 'em ? |
| 8 | They should bring along a crane and pick the whole thing up with me in it and call it Frozen Communications and put it in some art gallery . |
| 9 | We got a bamboo-wallah to build them two cages and hung them from hooks on the veranda . |
| 10 | They gave us six piasters and told us it was advance pay for work on a rubber plantation not far away . |
| 11 | Sometimes the big girls bullied us little ones and made us hand over our teatime bread or evening biscuit . |