Example sentences of "[pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when I can understand all they are saying , they give me little opportunity to reply , so anxious are they to keep up the headlong momentum of their own speech ; then they complain that I say nothing ! |
| 2 | Come me little washer lad , come let's away , |
| 3 | Come me little washer lad , come let's away , |
| 4 | It caused me little inconvenience and even less pain and I was still able to manoeuvre myself into reasonable position and qualify for the final . |
| 5 | I let me little lot go , sir , see . |
| 6 | It gives me little pleasure to agree with him , but I do so . |
| 7 | I played off seven at my best — politics left me little time for practice , but lack of concentration was the real problem . |
| 8 | ‘ You give me little encouragement . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 're burning up with love for me , are n't you , me little darlin' ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I was fortunate in my choice of boat , and my equipment gave me little trouble . |
| 11 | The game was more enjoyable for everyone that way . |
| 12 | There is so much ripe fruit that I just ask people to come in and help themselves , also I get to see everyone that way and hear all the news and of course the children love it . |
| 13 | We should regard Want , Disease , Ignorance and Squalor as common enemies of all of us , not as enemies with whom each individual may seek a separate peace , escaping himself to personal prosperity while leaving his fellows in their clutches . |
| 14 | The integration index expresses numerically certain relevant characteristics of the three persons with whom each migrant most frequently interacts — for example whether or not they are kinsfolk , or whether the ties have been contracted in the premigration period . |
| 15 | Assistance in making these choices is given by the Director of Studies to whom each student is assigned on joining the University . |
| 16 | For various reasons they were wrong ; but illusion of continuity was easily available because they had at least some of their kinsmen at close quarters , met them and socialized with them each day . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly they take the easy way out when food is put out for them each day . |
| 18 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |
| 19 | Mr Hall denied this and maintained his 270 new recruits had been bonded together by the ugly scenes which confronted them each day as they passed picket lines . |
| 20 | This approach recognises continuing activities as part of the School Development Plan , but forces justification of them each year . |
| 21 | ( People drive cars despite knowing that thousands die in them each year . ) |
| 22 | One of the most important of these relates to their ‘ input ’ , in terms of the number of offenders who come before them each year . |
| 23 | It was estimated that families in Easthall were paying £1 million between them each year heating the sky above Glasgow because as soon as they turned on the heat , it went straight out their windows and walls . |
| 24 | This charity does magnificent work for children , caring for over 11,000 of them each year ; today they run 200 projects , about which I have written in previous diaries . |
| 25 | One of the Trust 's most precious assets is the experience , skill and commitment of its staff ; this has its reward in the standards of upkeep and presentation of the properties , and in the enjoyment which the members and wider public , in their tens of millions , gain from them each year . |
| 26 | You will actually hold a policy review with your client , I E , you 're going to see them each year at least , but the policy reviews as regards the company are held to make sure there 's enough growth in the client 's funds to sustain all the charges . |
| 27 | Some district council 's elect all their councillors once every four years — others elect a third of them each year with a year off while the county council elections are held . |
| 28 | ‘ Time ’ had given them each other , and clearly that was as far as it was prepared to go . |
| 29 | It was the widow 's custom to leave a jug of milk for them each night after milking , she gave it as a gift in thanks , she said , for their support of an unfortunate woman on her own . |
| 30 | But the new game she had invented of punishing one or both of them each time they were beastly to her made her life more or less bearable . |