Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She handed me Little Ben , advised me not to let Home Sister catch me leaving it so late , and took herself off . |
| 2 | ‘ They told me little James 's coat was around his head , ’ Kevin claimed . |
| 3 | And Joe 's mum give me mostly pound coins and get it changed for a ten pound note . |
| 4 | One may presume that the standard of living of both these groups was above the national average , and that this could have given them better resistance to disease than their poorer neighbours . |
| 5 | In five years a machine is counted as nothing in the balance sheet , but people count and age makes them more experienced , gives them better judgement — if they 're capable of learning , which most people are . |
| 6 | Unfortunately their crude tactics , due to a very low educational level , made them better counter-agents than agents for the Bolsheviks . |
| 7 | The lady who ran Ruane 's office said the dispenser was giving them better coffee , better chocolate , than any time in the last nine years . |
| 8 | " Well , I 'd say they 've copied a good idea from the squirrels and that makes them better rabbits . " |
| 9 | The rivets of personal weapons were capped with silver in order to make them better symbols of the superior power and prestige of their owners , not to render them more effective in actual warfare ( fig. 24 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ I had three kids , Australia seemed to offer them better prospects than England and I was proved right , ’ he says . |
| 11 | All we dare claim is that we are making them better readers ’ ( p. 56 ) . |
| 12 | I have a Series III 2,25 diesel and would like an engine that will give me better performance but maintain economy . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I 'd never done weights before I came to Chelsea , and my wife gives me better things to eat than bananas . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been invited to join them down south . ’ |
| 15 | I 've not got them down love |
| 16 | But he used to buy them and send them down home by train , and we used to cart them by horse and cart from the station . |
| 17 | I used to , I used to buy them from Smithfield , the show , cattle show and years ago , when we had them down home , we used to show them Saturday nights outside the front of the shop . |
| 18 | I borrowed one of my dad 's mail-order magazines , and , leafing through the screeds of bankrupt stock , out-of-date and obsolete machines , put together a portable package capable of holding huge chunks of typically verbose Mortonesque meanderings , and spitting them down telephone wires eight times faster than I 'd been used to . |
| 19 | Put them down son . |
| 20 | Mr Byrne said : ‘ I respect these people 's right to their beliefs , but they should not shove them down people 's throats . |
| 21 | Coaching them … steering them down stream will be one of the centre 's instructor 's Jason Applegate from Milton Keynes … |
| 22 | Unity Bank 's Terry Thomas , who represented another backer which it was hoped would look favourably on the project , the Labour Party-linked Co-operative Bank , turned them down flat . |
| 23 | Aye , I 'll , I 'll bring them down Friday night . |
| 24 | But if you , if you look at a B two it makes sense , I mean I 've looked at B two 's and I have n't really understood what the one 's two 's and three's are for but now it makes sense to me so people who are B two makes more sense to them to know what |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll miss you though , Kate , you 've kept me together body and soul since I lost Mandy . |
| 26 | ‘ You and me together Mo ? |
| 27 | Five minutes later we were sailing through rafts of them only feet from the boat . |
| 28 | A BRITON was shot dead protecting his fiancee when muggers ambushed them only hours after they arrived in Florida . |
| 29 | SunSoft officials like Jim Billmaier were surprised that the eight-points included in the statement were committed to paper , believing them only discussion items for an independent software vendor rally held at PC Expo in New York City last week . |
| 30 | At Play In The Fields Of The Lord ( 15 ) Hector Babenco 's lengthy ( over three hours ) but stunningly-wrought ecological tragedy , shot entirely on location in Amazonia , centres on a group of missionaries and a Cheyenne half-breed who set out in different ways to ‘ save ’ a tribe of rain-forest Indians but bring them only death , disease and destruction . |