Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the war she had gone out with those fishers and watched them spear their quarry by torchlight in the early hours of the morning . |
| 2 | More significantly , it counterpoised the acquisition of land by the church — ‘ whereby the services which are due from such fees [ i.e. freehold ] and which were provided from the beginning for the defence of the realm are unjustifiably withdrawn and chief lords in respect of them lose their escheats ’ — with the good of the realm , for which the present ban is imposed . |
| 3 | If climbers hugged themselves in delight in the knowledge that they had the monopoly on daft , death-defying behaviour , their hearts must have sunk to see people above them launch themselves off cliffs , strapped to a parachute . |
| 4 | Some of them fear he 's now deliberately avoiding them . |
| 5 | Yeah but what you could do , Nancy will be really responsible about things like that , you can say to her if a big fat Housing Benefit cheque comes for me cash it and put it in my bank . |
| 6 | And you know with huskies , if one of them drops dead , the rest of them eat him . |
| 7 | Yeah , she gave me a Crunchie and I thought I bet it 's poison so I broke it in half gave them a bit , watched them eat it , gave it five minutes and then eat mine ! |
| 8 | Me eat them ? |
| 9 | Me me me eat it . |
| 10 | Then the fore and hind wings , bending under the additional stress of the turn , beat against one another making an audible rattle that you can easily hear as you sit watching them make their circuits over a pond . |
| 11 | The most interesting thing for me was walking alone and quietly in the forest and listening to the birds singing , watching them make their nest and feed their chicks . |
| 12 | they have a tendency to open them make them wider apart |
| 13 | The diversification of the sciences and the theoretical changes within them make it extremely difficult to locate a unique set of principles by which harmony could be guaranteed . |
| 14 | The sheer numbers of them make it spectacular although there are no huge centrepiece fireworks . |
| 15 | Poppa says I can go to London or Paris and have them make my trousseau if I want . ’ |
| 16 | Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water . |
| 17 | and if I 'd got something big and heavy you used to say to me bring it down and put it in my big machine . |
| 18 | And next they all all three of them mean what size all three . |
| 19 | I remember thinking all numbers look the same , none of them mean anything on their own , but when you string them together they have a sort of magic to them , they 're an incantation like witches sing when they circle round the cauldron cackling . |
| 20 | He sang If You Were the Only Girl in the World and he sang Help Me Make It Through the Night . |
| 21 | Erm I know for a fact that Peter who who 's the supervisor erm is a staunch Labourite and er union man , same as Geoff but neither of them push it . |
| 22 | ‘ You would have me remain what I was , ’ Suragai said , ‘ and alter the rest . ’ |
| 23 | I 've never known them change their minds before . |
| 24 | Many of them say they 'd like rather more variety . |
| 25 | I do n't know , people l I 'm of them say they ca n't afford to pay the kids , and get the food for the kids , and they 'll have to give them chips a couple of , every day of the week or whatever , but th there 's no need for that . |
| 26 | Hearing dogs for the deaf have become increasingly popular over the past ten years — now the staff who train them say they ca n't cope with the demand . |
| 27 | Most of them say they 've learned from the experience . |
| 28 | ‘ Some of them say they have lost £1,000 in revenue since the scheme was implemented . ’ |
| 29 | But relief workers walking with them say their naivity , their innocence is also their strength . |
| 30 | Yeah , but the trouble with it there is that very often you get , you get half of them say we ca n't come Tuesday , but we can come Wednesday |