Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She said , ‘ In case nothing came of it , I could cut him off . ’ |
| 32 | The new experience everyone enjoyed was eating bananas and it was a great disappointment when the supply stopped short at the beginning of the war . |
| 33 | And of course everyone knew all about it , just as they knew that the Mackays , poor souls , had done everything they could for the boy ever since they took him in for adoption . ’ |
| 34 | Of course these are habits , of course everyone does these things , that is not the point ! ’ |
| 35 | So that , when she went to the headmistress with what I was supposed to have done to her as we were changing after a singles tennis game , of course everyone believed her . |
| 36 | ‘ But of course everyone 's forgotten it by now ? ’ |
| 37 | Of course everyone knows to which general she belongs , but it is her eyes , her ears and her discernment that have to be relied upon . |
| 38 | The first is that what you say seems obvious ; so , in slight embarrassment , you add " obviously " or " of course " — implying " of course everyone knows this " . |
| 39 | Of course everyone curtsied too . |
| 40 | Of course everyone threw up their hands and said it was impossible . |
| 41 | And on my faith me think it good reason |
| 42 | But if but if Emmy gets the funding nothing to worry about . |
| 43 | Tennis Courts Nothing has been heard from either the District Council nor the Tennis Club . |
| 44 | Tennis Courts Nothing has been heard from either the District Council nor the Tennis Club . |
| 45 | Vases of different shapes and sizes lay beside pebbles , weavings , ancient carvings and many other objects no-one knew the purpose of . |
| 46 | You do n't lE T them do you ? |
| 47 | When they grew up and went off into the wild I suffered dreadful pangs . |
| 48 | she 's older than Jan I think |
| 49 | The egoist might raise a further objection : granted that I do indeed suffer from a sufferer 's viewpoint , I generally feel very much less from other viewpoints than from my own ; then will not the inclinations I choose in obedience to ‘ Be aware ’ tend to be self-centred , even if they do not quite fulfil the requirements of a pure philosophical egoism ? |
| 50 | Most people could recite its slogan , ‘ Every seven minutes someone passes with BSM ’ ( now in fact it is more like every six minutes ) . |
| 51 | ‘ We have to raise money ourselves to do any outings , we 're given a very small budget so we have fund raising events , and the clients have total say about how we use that . ’ |
| 52 | Bernard I think it 's up that lane you just come down . |
| 53 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 54 | Turning back to the clerk I said , ‘ It 's my sister . |
| 55 | In my days as a Justice 's Clerk I saw enough corpses to know that death can grossly disfigure even the comeliest of faces . ’ |
| 56 | Erm I did say at the time if the Council agreed it was we would approve the new application it would only be if the original was rescinded and I did speak to the Town Clerk so there 's no need , I 'm not making a big issue , but I think the Council should be aware and the Town Clerk I believe has notified because again this is one of those things that could happen at a later date and as we all know if we have n't made these things perfectly clear . |
| 57 | You know that stripy T-shirt I 've got the |
| 58 | If I want a T-shirt I do n't go to any pile I go to the hangers . |
| 59 | Before they gave me a bike I had to earn it , I had to work in the garden . |
| 60 | When I did get to the bike I saw it was virtually in pieces and realised that Darren had been attempting the job himself . |