Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] i [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 2 | ‘ All the things I told you about Petula … they applied just as much to a jealous dog as to a jealous woman . |
| 3 | ‘ One of the things I like you for , ’ the young man said , ‘ is that there is no pretence about you . |
| 4 | But I find it more useful actually to write out the things I want you to actually do . |
| 5 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
| 6 | I got involved with one of the servants I told you about , that had pawed me about in a cupboard . |
| 7 | But I want to hear now the whole story of your life , and how you came to be with the boys I saw you with that day . ’ |
| 8 | Certainly with the roses I use them as a love symbol , I used to always use dead and dried roses but now I 've started to use live ones . |