Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So he 's got all his bricks up virtually I think he said , but I ai n't worried about it cos I 'll get rid of them somewhere and I helped him out , I sold this car and , and told him what I was doing and he come I 've just the thing for you , just cos was having bricks like your dad 's , the sand grain sort of brick , you know . |
| 32 | They told how the man whom they had trusted and referred to as ‘ Dad ’ fondled them indecently while they sat on his knee in their pyjamas watching television in his rooms at Elm Tree Farm Community Home , Stockton , Cleveland . |
| 33 | I did n't know whether my imagination was leading me astray when you seemed to be implying something like that . ’ |
| 34 | As everyone feasted themselves Mum went round with the drink , pouring out gin and whisky or stout as they preferred , making sure to test them all as she did so , while Dad and Fred did the same with the ale . |
| 35 | It matters to me greatly that we have a reputation for taking these big issues and dealing with them with independence and rigour . |
| 36 | The article on Flettner 's rotors ( ’ Critics in a spin over Flettner 's ships ’ , 10 March , p 6561 interested me greatly but I feel that another , better form of wind propulsion for ships is either unknown or is being ignored . |
| 37 | Well personally I mean erm Margaret impressed me greatly but I think John was inclined to be full of his own importance for one thing . |
| 38 | The formation of this remark in my mind encouraged me greatly and I found myself smiling . |
| 39 | ‘ It does n't worry me morally but I have a lot of sympathy with those who do n't think it is very attractive . |
| 40 | ‘ They have taken to all the noise and building work around them better than we hoped and we are looking forward to the arrival of six cow elephants and one bull in six weeks time . ’ |
| 41 | Dr Jean Coope , in Menopause , advises : ‘ You may not think the stranger is the perfect son or daughter-in-law , but the chances are that your children know who will suit them better than you do , and the sooner you accept this fact , the happier your family will be . ’ |
| 42 | I wanted my friends to know me better than they had before . |
| 43 | ‘ It suits me better than it suits him . ’ |
| 44 | And she 'd already been with me for several years before we met , so you felt that perhaps she knew me better than you did , and you hated that . ’ |
| 45 | ‘ So you understand me better than I understand myself . |
| 46 | There is a mystic , psychic quality about them that is pleasantly disturbing , and often one of them will gently take my hand and gaze steadily into my eyes as if willing me better and I feel sort of honoured to be welcomed into their society . |
| 47 | I understood that you might like me better if I had experience , if I did n't have opinions about things I knew nothing about . … ’ |
| 48 | And the infuriating thing was , I 'm sure that horrible man believed me long before he admitted it . |
| 49 | Wo n't take me long once I get going its just the getting going bit busy day tomorrow have n't we ? |
| 50 | I am not arguing therefore that metaphors should not change , but that it is impossible for us to change them organically unless we understand them in the first place . |
| 51 | Are his keys with him or did he hand them in before he went ? ’ |
| 52 | Housewives were told to hand them in after they had been used in the stock pot and fed to the dog , after , after which the bones were to be washed and dried in the oven after the gas and electricity had been turned off . |
| 53 | Yeah it says , I read the thing and it says I have n't got ta let them in unless they 've got a warrant so the first time they come they would n't have a warrant , surely , so they 're gon na have to go away and get a warrant and in that time then I 'd have to get a licence would n't I ? |
| 54 | Mrs Singh filled them in although she had already expressed alarm at the number of notes she was going to have to write to the school . |
| 55 | But the money gets nicked , so the one who 's married , she goes and robs erm a store and then , they , the policeman pulls them over and wants to take them in so they lock him in his boot . |
| 56 | The other thing to remember is that you can damage your discs by inserting them before switching the computer on , or for that matter by leaving them in while you switch it off . |
| 57 | ‘ If we get in front we wo n't make the same mistake of lying back and letting them in as we did in Belfast , ’ said captain and centre back Alan McDonald ( Queens Park Rangers ) . |
| 58 | Dates and details — fill them in as you like . |
| 59 | And they entertained us and then some carol singers came and we asked them in and they sang carols and the food was nice and everybody really was very happy and that was the start of our Christmas holiday . |
| 60 | If it 's diagnosed as erm leaving treatment there 's a variety of splints that frames that you lie the baby on , strap them in and they remain in that position with their legs |