Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun pl] [vb base] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean it came out well I thought , it came out very well , considering it was , you know , different process , and it certainly does the job and I still have n't got my damn postcards have I ? |
| 2 | My veterinary colleagues tell me one of the main dangers with such large dogs is not that they injure themselves ( through overexercising before their skeletons can carry their weight ) but that their diets are over-supplemented , particularly with excessive calcium , which damages bone growth and hinders development . |
| 3 | My own observations leave me in no doubt that either there are very few sand-eels left in inshore waters ( and therefore accessible to feeding sea-birds ) or that sand-eels have dramatically changed their habits . |
| 4 | ‘ My own eyes tell me that their ship is gone , sir . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And my own instincts tell me that they escaped ! ’ fumed Fakrid . |
| 6 | ‘ My close friends call me Theda . ’ |
| 7 | But my other commitments prevent me from turning up to their committee meetings now so erm I 'm sort of stepping back on to I 'm just on to their mailing list . |
| 8 | It has been a rhetorical device , then — necessary because ( my literary friends tell me ) science proceeds by just such rhetoric — but rhetorical nonetheless . |
| 9 | Their agonised faces amuse me and I have yet to see a happy or embarrassed one . |
| 10 | If their full bellies make me fail to recognise my communality with a woman of colour whose children who do not eat , because she ca n't find work ; or a woman who has no children because her insides are rotten from home abortions and sterilisation ; or if I fail to recognise the lesbian who chooses not to have children , or the woman who remains closeted because her homophobic community is her only life support ; the woman who chooses silence instead of another death ; the woman who is terrified lest any anger triggers the explosion of hers ; if I fail to recognise these women as other faces of myself , then I am contributing to each of their oppressions , but also to my own . |
| 11 | What extra skills have I learned through doing those jobs ? |
| 12 | What extra efforts have I made to increase my general skills ( night school , etc . ) ? |
| 13 | BELVILLE : Your innocent freedoms charm me ! |
| 14 | ‘ Your damned shadows follow me everywhere I go , do n't they ? ’ |