Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my experience the most effective way to resist his attempts to snag you is to heave at him with as much side-strain as your tackle strength will allow . |
| 2 | No , but every whenever his chest goes he 's |
| 3 | Investigations revealed he was driving without insurance or a licence . |
| 4 | and the story goes he was stuck within minutes . |
| 5 | So in the end , even the chairman agreed I was right . |
| 6 | Keith 's mum thinks he 's more like darts player Eric Bristow . |
| 7 | I sit there with a pair of tweezers going my mum thinks you 're so fussy , and I 'm like |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ My mum thinks it 's OK too and Lol is great . |
| 10 | A team led by Basil Rose used a cloud chamber to measure the momentum of the neutrons coming from Zeta 's plasma , the measurements which they made in the spring of 1958 , showed that the fusion reactions producing them were between nuclei with on average a net directed momentum . |
| 11 | Within the British political culture it is rare for workers ( even manual industrial ‘ proletarians ’ ) to consider the wholesale expropriation of the property of another class as a reasonable political option , but if the financial institutions insist they are only guardians of the people 's savings then why should the ‘ people ’ not call them to account ? |
| 12 | One particular day , having struggled through an ugly crowd of protesters to the safety of the Welsh Office , the Prince announced he was going back out to talk to them . |
| 13 | Hirst admitted he was slightly disturbed by the bid at the time , but now says : ‘ The fact that we 're playing Manchester United means nothing special to me , nothing at all . |
| 14 | The only occasion that the present writer met him was as a member of a deputation to appeal for troop protection for Protestant homes that were being stoned and shot into by the Provisional IRA . |
| 15 | The Russians agreed they were legally at fault . |
| 16 | She added apologetically , ‘ Sophie thinks I 'm too romantic , and I suppose I am , but I must admit I 'd love to be protected . ’ |
| 17 | I said , ‘ Harvey thinks I am employed by Midwinter to check up on him ? ’ |
| 18 | But police have told Adrian that even though the driver admitted she was in the wrong , she 's unlikely to be prosecuted . |
| 19 | ‘ We are not putting out any signals which might make the kidnappers think we are going to do a deal . |
| 20 | THE Algarve is a mixture of the most expensive and exclusive holiday homes in Europe and monstrous concrete high-rise blocks built before the authorities realised they were killing the golden goose of tourism . |
| 21 | She would write her first reply in the bathroom , turning on the geyser to pretend she was having a bath and writing joyfully on a breadboard balanced on the small wooden basin ( they used a breadboard as a bathmat on the freezing floor , because he liked the genuineness of natural wood ) . |
| 22 | I suspect that the driver thinks he 's using a sheet feeder . |
| 23 | Today Cradley announced they were reporting the matter to the Speedway Promoters ' Association . |
| 24 | Sitting behind Eva and Dad in the car , watching their hands constantly fluttering towards each other , you did n't have to be a genius to see they were a couple . |
| 25 | But Ferguson insists it is not too late for United to get back in the hunt . |
| 26 | But , under the system now envisaged by Mr MacGregor 's officials , higher education students would get a certificate proving they were on a recognised course and apply by post to the Glasgow-based Student Loans Company for a loan . |
| 27 | The fact that it lacked heraldry around it was a sign that he belonged to no particular lord , though the blue sash announced he was attached to the Household of Ralarth . |
| 28 | Constituency secretary Rita Taylor insists it is otherwise . |
| 29 | They told us three and a half , but there again a lot of rescue people do cut the ages of their dog , but , but , our , our two vets agreed he was around three and a half , between three and a half and four , look at his teeth and his coat and his bones . |
| 30 | Russells Hall pupils ' comments were along the lines of ‘ Ca n't they come back this afternoon ? ’ but also included : ‘ Dipak can draw well ’ and ‘ Marcelle thinks I 'm a really good writer . ’ |