Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An' 'e 'd say : ‘ Them books is n't for the likes o' you , Jack . |
| 2 | One of my pairs is actually reluctant to spawn if there is no-one from whom to defend their territory . |
| 3 | ‘ Which is fortunate really , since the idea of your warning him about my plans is n't one I find worthy of consideration , Time Lord . ’ |
| 4 | You went on to discuss your own role as a ‘ sweeper ’ ( which I gather from my sons is roughly what I was brought up to call a half-back ) . |
| 5 | " Hamish , oh I am so pleased to see you " , he said , " I have got a very important job tonight , one of my clients is over from France with his wife and daughter and I am entertaining them . |
| 6 | One of my shoulders is like higher than the other . |
| 7 | My Thursdays is absolutely brilliant ! |
| 8 | ‘ One or other of my partners is usually in the office on a Saturday . |
| 9 | Surely a few minutes in my arms is n't going to mean much to Harry at this stage , one way or the other . |
| 10 | Is n't it rather terrible that what brings the pricking behind my eyelids is not old Eddy 's death , or even the thought of human mortality in general , but certain strokes of rhetoric — certain alliterations , repetitions , and verbal sonorities which do n't hold any literal meaning for me ? |
| 11 | This autumn the last of my children is off to university and I 'm wondering if it 's realistic to consider entering the job market , since it 's 29 years since I worked . |
| 12 | The thought of being without my VCR , my television and my records is more horrible than anything . |
| 13 | Yeah , but one of my videos is out oh what video 's that that you 've got ? |
| 14 | Oh I do , I do and my mates is on er , of course they 've been brought up with the metric system you see and he 's |
| 15 | ‘ One of my parts is very much on the marketing side and this has actually flourished and the demands on my time for giving talks and presentations all over the world at very high levels has become more demanding than I 've ever known before . ’ |
| 16 | Without such ideological precepts bound up in the ‘ representative figure ’ of the Führer , the dynamism built into the permanent mobilization of the Party and its affiliates is largely unthinkable . |
| 17 | Western scholars may never discover how many Soviet citizens perished at the hands of Beria 's NKVD troops ( or Abakhumov 's SMERSH , operating in the enemy rear ) , but the scale and significance of their operations is well understood by those who command today 's KGB Border Guards and MVD Internal Troops , along with the ‘ special detachments ’ of the KGB and Armed Forces . |
| 18 | This sudden and violent less of the abbey , its Abbot and three of its Brethren is perhaps the cause of the locally reported transmutations and the essence of the profoundly poignant atmosphere commented upon by so many visitors so the site — that overwhelming peace , tinged with a hint of sadness . |
| 19 | In the dirty , brutal and often painfully short life of a Goblin the chance of swooping through the air and smashing right through their enemies is just too good to miss . |
| 20 | It 's hard on the little ones , but then their fingers is so quick they that has most of 'em is best off . |
| 21 | The cost of the return tickets for Diana and her sons is more than £7,000 . |
| 22 | That usage was not found in the classical texts , in which voluntas is not used to refer to the source of validity of a trust but as a criterion in assessing the content of a trust . |
| 23 | Penguin 's motivation is to ensure that a core stock of its titles is always available in the stores . |
| 24 | The legitimacy of all its institutions is perpetually under assault . |
| 25 | The length of the time that the occupational therapists take to complete their investigations is also down to about three months . |
| 26 | Hm big old tufts round their hats is n't it ? |
| 27 | I would think there must be a large part of people out there that could benefit from their estates is n't there ? |
| 28 | Equally , what many parishes pay their musicians is barely sufficient to cover their expenses . |
| 29 | But the policies of the Conservative government since 1979 have changed the nature of the debate in that equality in any of its forms is not to be pursued ; it is not only unachievable but also undesirable . |
| 30 | Art construction in all its forms is simply the choosing of separate or possibly groups of atoms and molecules from diverse existing structures and re-grouping them with mental science . |