Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a mother who is in contact with her baby immediately after delivery is much more likely to be able to do this than one who is not given her baby until a few hours after the birth . |
| 2 | Ma M M We we had a candidate 's committee last night , I 'm just doing this so you you keep you on your toes until we get to the result , you know . |
| 3 | And for an English/French speaker , adoption of bird for a short time precluded oiseau Once such children realize they are dealing with two languages , however , they begin to use labels from both languages for the same category , both leche and milk They start to do this once they themselves can produce about 150–200 words ( Taeschner , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | My guess is that it was this if anything which provoked the reaction amongst British critics at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival , and the covert but unsuccessful attempt , reportedly led by a British daily newspaper , to have the film taken out of the Festival altogether . |
| 5 | He should say this because what his campaign needs is the idea that something new is going to come from re-electing the Tories — not just more of the same , however admirable that may be . |
| 6 | What I was if any other matter comes into light before it comes in we do n't do anything about it and that 's why I would oppose that because of this because one it 's not necessary to move something that we would look at it and sit back and after the inspector reports . |
| 7 | Well I mean I 've got to er alter this because I I 've got to do a dropped sl sleeve but I could n't |
| 8 | Mr Wolski was interested in this because he himself had seen the RSPB man at the Zoo yesterday and had heard unofficially that their real worry was that someone might try to trap or shoot the bird . |
| 9 | I mean i i i in a sense I think he was , he 's been criticized unfairly for , for this because he he , he copped all the blame for absolute egalitarianism , whereas in fact if , if you look at the details behind it he was aware of the dangers of encroachment on the middle peasant and was warning against that and saying look this should n't happen . |
| 10 | Erm we er you know had a situation you so er we 've had moments when you get very irritated with one another because what you 're trying to do is n't succeeding and because you always blame the other folk . |
| 11 | Now providing I 've got all that I can be doing some while you you 've gone . |
| 12 | ‘ Obviously we regard this as something we would not have wished to do . |
| 13 | Although he 's only seventeen Chris is committed to art in one form or another as something he intends to stick with for life . |
| 14 | Right up until I was n't able to do any more and able to , like all engineers you get most of the men when you get to the stage where you 're not able to crawl under cars and do things like that so you you find another bu business , we went into sales and , and er accessories , stores and that I 've been in all that line in the last twenty years before I retired . |
| 15 | Anselm defined God as ‘ that than which nothing greater can be conceived ’ . |
| 16 | A very famous ‘ proof ’ of God 's existence , the so-called ‘ Ontological Argument ’ associated with St Anselm , defines God as ‘ that than which nothing greater can be thought to exist ’ . |
| 17 | In other words , where God is concerned we are attempting to think of that than which nothing greater can be thought , which is also beyond thought . |
| 18 | He would commit a nuisance just as much if what he owned were a manure heap . |
| 19 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 20 | Like Bakhtin , Lecercle manages these moves without sinking into the quagmire of Marxism ; language may be a structure " erected on the unstable basis of contradiction and strife " ( p. 187 ) , but it is not a game in which there will ever be winners or losers — it will just go on being what it uncontrollably is , for it speaks us as much as we it . |
| 21 | But he did n't do quite as much as me I do n't think like . |
| 22 | The ways in which we say things convey as much as what we say . |
| 23 | Orange flavours that 's about as much as what we 'd ever get in here ! |
| 24 | What the Government buy matters as much as what they spend . |
| 25 | yeah I mean , and the trouble is what n annoys me more than anything is the fact that he 's good worker I me even when he 's drunk , alright he do n't work at full capacity but he does sort of almost as much as what they do and when he 's |
| 26 | I have suggested that there is an important connection between the linguistic and the metalinguistic , since the important thing about sex difference is not what it is so much as what it is made to mean . |
| 27 | It mattered to her how something looked as much as what it contained . |
| 28 | So you were n't aware of what he could n't do , so much as what he could do and did do , and how little of it you could understand . |
| 29 | One of the great things about drama school is what you learn to reject as much as what you actually learn . |
| 30 | suggesting common objectives in an even-handed way , ie that favour what they want to achieve at least as much as what you want to achieve . |