Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then they want someone else 's help or whatever else and er I can see that they 're concerned that you know they have a concern or want something from me then and I pass on I some action to take place you know for you know I 've on to somebody or someone said to him , I always give my name . |
| 2 | My knowledge of the fauna is patchy because most of the trapping methods capture only flying insects , and because I have concentrated on groups that I , or someone known to me , can identify . |
| 3 | And it suggests the driving force — or someone working for him — has a good knowledge of Central and Eastern Europe . ’ |
| 4 | And for all of us , the short , sharp shock of illogical fear ( the brakes temporarily fail on your car , or someone comes at you with a knife ) is helpful . |
| 5 | So I took myself off to my billet , feeling bloody frustrated and edgy , might I add , and thence to bed , where I thought about it . |
| 6 | Where I differ from him is on the nature of the collection as a whole , which to me seems a collection of poems differing in method and indeed quality , written over a period of years , and having two distinct sequences , to the Friend and to the ‘ Dark Lady ’ . |
| 7 | Their voices can be heard throughout the following pages , where I refer to them consistently by name . |
| 8 | ‘ Where I come from it 's tougher country than this . ’ |
| 9 | erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ? |
| 10 | ‘ Where I work for you ? ’ |
| 11 | Just to look at the cradle he had ready and waiting with its green cover there in the living room transported him , ‘ though it was only a hospital where she was lying and where I sat near her . ’ |
| 12 | Whenever Eugenia or I went near them , they stopped talking . |
| 13 | I suppose I see her once or twice a week — she comes in for a cup of tea , or I go to her . |
| 14 | Crawford went to two Christmas parties , where nobody spoke to him and he did n't like the food . |
| 15 | There 's no point in demonstrating if you do n't get any national press , TV or radio … or nobody listens to you or you get beaten up by the Police … ’ |
| 16 | ’ An absentee also included anyone who was a Palestinian citizen and left his ordinary place of residence in Palestine for a place outside Palestine before 1 September 1948 , or for a place in Palestine held at the time by forces which sought to prevent the establishment of the State of Israel or which fought against it after its establishment . ’ |
| 17 | In selecting people for a job we are inclined to go on general appearance , whether we like the person , whether we would like to have him or her working for us . |
| 18 | They came to a lurching pontoon , where she clung to him in excitement , her eyes enormous at the sight of four enormous man-sized earwigs calmly waiting for the ferryboat . |
| 19 | Her little apartment had become their home , where she cooked for him and they shared all the daylight hours together . |
| 20 | Of course Alison was not ‘ living in ’ the house , but was often there visiting Patrick ( her help as a nurse was no longer required ) , joining Jack in his studio ( where she talked with him about his work ) , or chatting with him and Franca in the drawing room or kitchen before departing with Jack to a restaurant and taking him on to her flat for the night . |
| 21 | All the way down in the train I kept seeing you smiling at me — oh , so wistfully . |
| 22 | ‘ You might own this place , Miguel , and you might have the right to stand where you like on it , but you 'll never make me pleased to see you ever again . |
| 23 | Yeah and there 's er as you go over the top there 's like a postman 's passage and you go past where you turn into it there 's in the corner there . |
| 24 | Then , if you like , you can do a little pantomime routine where you look behind you for the ghost but it follows you around until you finally find it , and then you can do a brief activity with the ghost , like walk around the room in ‘ follow my leader ’ style or sing a song such as ‘ My kneebone 's connected to my thigh bone ’ . |
| 25 | You try to be a white person or you go to them and try to be accepted and you go back to blacks and they do n't like it . |
| 26 | Or you compensate for it . |
| 27 | You 're aware that at some stage they 'll need a wash , but you just leave them until they 've calmed down or you talk to them about it . |
| 28 | Either that or you stood on it . |
| 29 | It overrode the pain , as , each slash , cut by the bag , or she kicked at him , just another woe ; as a crashing , endless tide ; all the sins of the world his sadness . |
| 30 | It is for the individual to do what he or she likes with it . |