Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | It was a continuous process , and all of the people tended to see the computer as working very much for them rather than for the other department next door . |
| 62 | And that people who told porkies went into the oven , and serve them right so she 'd better watch out . |
| 63 | You could n't see them right if you were a few yards from them , but just the figures moving you know , and their arms going backwards and fore cleaning the windows . |
| 64 | I 've already informed them confidentially that as my future wife you wo n't be interested in continuing to work for them . ’ |
| 65 | The reader should not reject them outright if it so happens that they do not correspond to his own personal impressions . |
| 66 | Our hearer may even reject them outright as false . |
| 67 | The waitress added up the modest sum , and then asked them regretfully if they were leaving the district for good . |
| 68 | Employment aspirations also differentiated the school-leavers ; those who aspired to manual jobs were more likely to obtain them locally than were those who aspired to non-manual work , especially professional and managerial posts . |
| 69 | Declaring variables as local , creates them locally and initialises them to zero/null . |
| 70 | Auguste regarded them grimly and with foreboding . |
| 71 | Doubt is a state of mind in suspension between faith and unbelief so that it is neither of them wholly and it is each only partly . |
| 72 | Pupils should be encouraged to formulate first the questions they need to answer by using such sources , so that they use them effectively and do not simply copy verbatim ; |
| 73 | Thank them politely and choose someone else . |
| 74 | Lowell told them politely and falsely that it was good to see them . |
| 75 | Sat there through the night , closing my eyes at times , then opening them slowly and allowing the glass to impose itself . |
| 76 | You get on them slowly and they register one weight ; if you jump on them with gusto they register something quite different . |
| 77 | Place your thumbs on the chin and pull them slowly and firmly outwards and upwards along the jaw bone to the ear . |
| 78 | Boil them slowly till they are all to pieces ; then squeeze and strain them through a bag . |
| 79 | But just so long as they take me somewhere where there 's the right kind of electricity … |
| 80 | ‘ But I knew there was a book in me somewhere and so I decided to put my personal experiences of the war down on paper . ’ |
| 81 | My mother glared at me suspiciously and told me not be so ridiculous . |
| 82 | She studied me suspiciously and this strengthened my belief that Ralemberg had his own secrets . |
| 83 | Although nearly everyone experiences an occasional craving , some people have them intensely and often . |
| 84 | He greeted me politely and we quickly got into conversation . |
| 85 | He thanked me politely and returned to his prying , looking in all the drawers , flicking through files even as he was drinking his tea . |
| 86 | ‘ You will speak to me politely or I will split my men here into two football teams with you as the ball . |
| 87 | I go to a charming Chinese lady acupuncturist and although I detest needles I found it painless and relaxing and it helped me tremendously before and after the operations . |
| 88 | The examples in this section are Janus-like , in that the reader may interpret them metaphorically but , in the light of the examples in the previous section , it seems to me that we should interpret them as cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 89 | ‘ The girl was walking on the pavement when the bus crashed into railings damaging them badly and the side of the bus hit her a glancing blow , ’ he said . |
| 90 | And I could n't bear to be with women I did like because it reminded me forcibly that they did n't turn me on . ’ |