Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | And Joe 's mum give me mostly pound coins and get it changed for a ten pound note . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | I have a Series III 2,25 diesel and would like an engine that will give me better performance but maintain economy . |
6 | ‘ I 'll miss you though , Kate , you 've kept me together body and soul since I lost Mandy . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Most of them only sound as if they are . ) |
10 | It ill becomes a foreigner to look in and pontificate on a short visit but it seemed to me that Australia as a rich country had given them only material goods , which merely sapped their self-sufficiency and their self-respect . |
11 | Her work with children and women had brought them together ocean . |
12 | And that 's why this is very interesting for you because you now know what your preference is and what you need to think about is that I may be a very high reflector , but I can see there 's , there 's Lou in particular was a very strong activist and when I put them together training , I need to ensure that it 's not the way I like to learn , it is a balanced approach others can also gain , I need to ensure that others gain from this . |
13 | Fully 77 per cent of our panel throughout the campaign rated these issues as ‘ extremely important ’ for their voting choice , but television news gave them less coverage than defence , though more than unemployment and inflation . |
14 | Hard-up parents are giving them less pocket money . |
15 | The activities of illegal immigrant vessels were as manna from heaven to the media who naturally gave them much publicity . |
16 | But away from the cameras few people gave them much chance of a future together . |
17 | This group 's unsuccessful conduct of the war incurred them much unpopularity , and discontent at their domination of the king , together with rumours of corruption , self-seeking and extortion , underlay the commons ' attack upon them in the Good Parliament of 1376 . |
18 | Now when Simon saw that the spirit was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles hands , he offered them much money , saying , give this authority to me as well , so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit . |
19 | It is true , these same trivial errors did cause me some anxiety at first , but once I had had time to diagnose them correctly as symptoms of nothing more than a straightforward staff shortage , I have refrained from giving them much thought . |
20 | Narrowly dyadic relationships of this kind show no tendency to proliferate outwards so as to form a wider network , and , since they are usually short-lived , anthropologists have not often given them much attention . |
21 | They gave them much latitude in day-to-day operations and allowed them to mould law and order policies according to counter-insurgency theories . |
22 | I would like to propose a toast to Annabelle and Steven , wishing them much joy and happiness for their future together . |
23 | These tasks are concentrated at the federal level , far more than was foreseen in 1949 , and with them naturally expenditure , bureaucracy and political power . |
24 | Indeed , they could have been Hal and his rascally crew . |
25 | His well rounded performance ( in more ways than one ) established his rascally nature and was matched by his two henchmen Michael Hunt and Peter Walker . |
26 | What I most relish is the thought of me , eight hours through the treatment , rushing blindly to a meeting at the BBC , hair sodden , stinky and moving around of its own accord . |
27 | The more I think on it the more I see that this cruel sentence may yet be turned to advantage and may be God 's way of effecting what I most desire and have been unable to bring about . |
28 | As it was your generous gift of the physic Garden to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries that encouraged the supporting of that Garden for the improvement of Botany and so consequently was the Occasion of my being employed in a service so agreeable to my natural inclinations , so the favourable opinion you have had of my abilities , when you was pleased to recommend me to that worshipful Company , with the several instances I have since had of your generous inclinations to encourage the Art and me , will ever lay me under the greatest obligations to endeavour to answer that character you was please to give of me and herein humbly hoping to approve myself what I most desire to be thought of … |
29 | Lydia Becker , a leading Victorian feminist , compared the position of middle class women unfavourably with that of working class women : ‘ What I most desire , is to see married women of the middle classes stand on the same terms of equality as prevail in the working classes and the highest aristocracy . |
30 | So I eventually gorr it out the way , but I would n't like to gerr into that position again . |