Example sentences of "the [noun pl] and [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to go down the mines and he stuck it out . |
| 2 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 3 | And the birds and he thinks it 's time to get up or something . |
| 4 | ‘ Willie can do the illustrations and I think you 'd better be Editor , Carrie , ’ suggested Zach . |
| 5 | So I think her mother 's gon na be in for a bit of a shock because they all think that they 're gon na get married so quick , I think she just wanted to get that ring on her finger so she can reap the ackers and I think she 's gon na do a runner . |
| 6 | Right , that 's all the Z's multiplied by their corresponding Z's on the pairs and you add them all up . |
| 7 | We were in a supermarket , I do n't know where it was but somewhere in the states and I told you I think they 're boast were sixty something varieties of peanut butter . |
| 8 | Erm again , you say that you 're going round to all the schools and what have you , and again , this can only be extremely good because , after all , this is where |
| 9 | This is the grey area , we did n't call on the company we called on the implants and I hope we have n't done any damage , but what we have done and what the p |
| 10 | Of course , all theatrical activities came to an abrupt halt ; but Guthrie was not prepared to accept what seemed like being the total demise of Sadler 's Wells Opera , and proposed sending a small touring group of the company round the provinces and he offered me a small contract . |
| 11 | I met the guys , loved the songs and they asked me to be their agent . |
| 12 | And yet we were seeing seeing the film from the Americans where the film stars of the day with their twin sets and fully fashion stockings and the pearls and what have you . |
| 13 | ‘ Everyone has a record by The Drifters and I think we have all sung one of their numbers at a wedding . |
| 14 | ‘ They could see I was taking it easier on some of the sessions and they told me so . |
| 15 | I think the Arabs have the same rights as the Jews and I think it is a tragedy of history that a people who are refugees make new refugees . |
| 16 | I think the Arabs have the same rights as the Jews and I think it is a tragedy of history that a people who are refugees make new refugees . |
| 17 | They bought the potatoes and they put them into this machine to mix them up with a couple of pails of water and then they drained all the taters off and left the milk that was left and used that for the baking . |
| 18 | It gives me the creeps and I know it frightened the kiddies . |
| 19 | And er the foreman and bosses that knew people and they knew the circumstances and I suppose they put a word in and erm you know men were sort of stopped because er I mean , if a man had a house full of children or something , he 'd probably be the very last you know before he was sort of forced to g you know sacked or wh And I mean they were n't sacked in a sense , they was always ready there was a place ready for them to come back to there . |
| 20 | Mcduff came with him to sit in the shelves and they took it in turns to keep watch . |
| 21 | and she says she sat , she sat er still you know with her arms folded and all like that and she says , oh she says I think you er collect the books and stamp them and put them back on the shelves and she said they all laughed , but she got the job in opposition to er , a few others you know |
| 22 | That 's not the way we do things here — you draft the bills and we work them over ’ ( Mullen , 1976 , p. 60 ) . |
| 23 | There would be pyres up and down the Dales and himself lighting them , redeeming the people . |
| 24 | I mean the Bradford Dukes always win at Bradford because I 've heard on the grapevine , not from me , that they 've got little bumps round the bends and they fill them in and only the Bradford riders know whereabouts they are , so they skirt round them . |
| 25 | I try not to though , I mean that 's her responsibility , I buy the plants and she puts them in the garden , er in the . |
| 26 | The WWF give me the ideas and I design them . |
| 27 | Now they have aerial wires attached to the masts and they made me think they must intend to use her for some sort of electronic surveillance . |
| 28 | They were not instructed to do so by the apostles and their doing it was not a condition of membership of the church community . |
| 29 | Erm I was , I , I thought that , when you covered all the policies you then went through and summarized all the needs and I thought you were n't going to go back and , and er explore further so what you did is you covered all the policies and then you summarized everything and then explored all the needs and s and at one point I thought that you were n't actually going to do that but you did come back and do it , you just did it in a different way . |
| 30 | I save the tins , wash them and paint the outsides and I use them as cache pots for all my plants , which neatly disguises the yoghurt pots in which I have planted them ! |