Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their father who had started the business , although retired , was still usually to be found there , hovering in the background , his full white beard reminding me of Father Christmas . |
| 2 | It was easy to convince him of his worthlessness-to make him believe he was capable of such an act . |
| 3 | The vulnerability of minor revenue officials to demotion or removal made it imperative for them to remain on good terms with men of influence able to mar their careers , and shortly after his clash with the provost of Inverkeithing Main made his peace with the Cunningham family . |
| 4 | In the end there was a tremendous battle because , although Mrs Christie expressed a wish in her will for the island to become a nature reserve , she left no money to carry it out . |
| 5 | I 'm not against the principle as I said when I came , when I was on the Council previously , when this was first hanging about , that there 's little doubt about it as , it 's a good policy , but will we get the money to carry it out . |
| 6 | Because her social isolation was made worse by her inability to drive she agreed , before the next session , to take the therapist 's advice to arrange driving lessons . |
| 7 | If the vicar thinks it does he is mistaken . |
| 8 | No , but every whenever his chest goes he 's |
| 9 | Fairbank 's contribution to handwriting made him known to a larger public . |
| 10 | and the story goes he was stuck within minutes . |
| 11 | So he fought with him and and took his stick from him and gave him a whack on the head and he dropped , and the story goes he says we 'll go home now lads . |
| 12 | The Archdeacon realised he had been carried away , cleared his throat and gulped the last of the sherry . |
| 13 | In fact no recent government has reduced local authorities ' statutory duties , only the money to perform them . |
| 14 | So in the end , even the chairman agreed I was right . |
| 15 | Acquiring this kind of expertise brings its own rewards and it is gratifying to discover that it is often easier to explain a subject to others when you have had some difficulty mastering it yourself . |
| 16 | Keith 's mum thinks he 's more like darts player Eric Bristow . |
| 17 | I sit there with a pair of tweezers going my mum thinks you 're so fussy , and I 'm like |
| 18 | My mum thinks I 'm having a great time , as I tell her that I am but it 's a lie , and it has n't got any better . |
| 19 | ‘ My mum thinks it 's OK too and Lol is great . |
| 20 | Any insect touching it becomes inextricably stuck and very often buried within it as more resin flows around it . |
| 21 | The drunken porter allowing them entrance after the usual altercation . |
| 22 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 23 | They were therefore leaving it exposed to the elements until it reached the point where ministers decided it was a waste of time and money to restore it . |
| 24 | He was a man whose approachability made him seem so very affable , but no one , however wealthy , becomes a Presidential hopeful without some steel in the soul , and it was that sudden steel that I now saw in the senator 's eyes . |
| 25 | who has let a prince clamber her . |
| 26 | You had to go to such trouble to persuade the subject to accept the poison and when ( or rather , in his case if ) you managed it , your very intimacy made it all too clear to everyone that you were the one who was slipping them the doctored crumble , the dodgy spaghetti bolognese or the potato salad unusually rich in mineral salts . |
| 27 | There was also substantial cross-group agreement on the selection of this feature , with most groups arguing that the 'summarising " nature of this sentence made it a strong candidate for an opening to the story . |
| 28 | The pope 's ardent desire for clarification and decision made it possible for judges to be used who were not always the bishops , in close contact with Rome , but abbots and other ecclesiastical officials . |
| 29 | The Bournemouth decision made it clear that the Unity Campaign 's success had been more apparent than real . |
| 30 | With the decision made she felt a kind of temporary peace . |