Example sentences of "[pron] [det] [noun] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't try to tell me that life is fair . |
| 2 | Their Northern Ireland president is Billy McCormick from Craigavad who tells me that membership is 200 and rising , and new recruits are always welcome . |
| 3 | I do n't know how much Oliver 's told you about the Shakespeare School , but take it from me that place is tacky : how it got its registered status I shudder to think . |
| 4 | But they also prove to me that television is capable of handling myth and that , in confining the medium largely to information and ephemeral diversion , we underestimate its aesthetic potential.M.B . |
| 5 | In those circumstances , under the law as I hold it , it seems to me that rent is payable at the full rate for the quarters ending September 29 and December 25 , 1945 . |
| 6 | In July 1939 it seemed clear to me that war was inevitable . |
| 7 | It would appear that differences between action and control samples are masked by the fact that the action samples contain people who need little or no input from the Home Support Project in order to remain at home , as well as a few for whom that input is crucial . |
| 8 | Someone will reach for a tin of fish-paste only to be brought up short by another member of the party reminding them that fish-paste is unclean , while someone else may get as far as the checkout with a year 's supply of baked beans , when , across the crowded shelves of the supermarket , comes a voice reminding them of the danger they are facing . |
| 9 | ‘ My pleasure , ’ he murmured suavely , and from then until Mrs Novakova came in to tell them that dinner was ready he engaged her in surface conversation that had nothing whatsoever to do with the reason for why she was there . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're not suggesting that what happened to me this morning was attempted murder , are you ? |
| 11 | Mr Blackadder tolled me this buk is ful of jokes that are abowt as funny as getting your bottom caut in a bacon slicer . |
| 12 | That child was born only three months before the child with whom this court is concerned . |
| 13 | As we do this , we can encourage consistently those in whom this gift is developing , and perhaps see some move from prophesying to having a mature ministry as a prophet . |
| 14 | For example , Peter Matthiessen 's account of his astonishing journey on foot , with limited supplies in the face of overwhelming winter snows , from Nepal to the Crystal Mountain in Tibet where he goes fired with the hope of seeing the rare , almost mythical , snow leopard , expresses a pattern of experience that is at the heart of the awareness of the medieval mystics with whom this book is concerned . |
| 15 | The mystics with whom this book is concerned understood this sense of an ultimate reality inherent in , yet transcending , the created world , with the power to transform its pain to joy , in Christian terms . |
| 16 | It is no accident that we know more about the lives of Richard Rolle and Margery Kempe than about the other three writers with whom this book is concerned . |
| 17 | As with the other strategies , though , there will be some people for whom this advice is inappropriate : for example if they are unable to avoid feeling guilty , or if the risks involved feel just too great . |
| 18 | It may be the approach of the atheist for whom the whole of life is meaningless ; it may be the approach of the over-spiritualizing theist for whom this world is irrelevant . |
| 19 | For them this brochure is unnecessary . |
| 20 | For them this brochure is unnecessary . ’ |
| 21 | In fact , this last sentence , ‘ For them this brochure is unnecessary ’ , does not appear in the German text at all but is replaced by ‘ What does another brochure offer these people ? ’ |
| 22 | Deleting ‘ For them this brochure is unnecessary ’ ties in with the second interpretation . |
| 23 | Unfortunately for them this act is final . |
| 24 | My few days were intermediate — cloudy , rough , with the reef and turbid water yet to fully recover . |
| 25 | Release 3 did however a band of loyal users who liked the ability to create multi-page spreadsheets and some of its other special features — my own favourite is Automatic formatting which means that Release 3 is one of the easiest spreadsheets ever in which to enter a date . |
| 26 | I am strangely calm now I know my own efforts are hopeless . |
| 27 | I may not possess any status or receive a substantial monthly pay cheque , but to have my trade grow entirely through my own efforts is one heck of a kick . |
| 28 | ‘ And you can see what my own kind is these days … . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Will my own things be ready tomorrow ? ’ she asked after a while . |
| 30 | There was a fluid pain at the back of my neck and my own voice was strange to me . |