Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people . |
| 2 | However , since the database files were in dBASE format , it is possible to interrogated them using this software rather than Doctor Data if you choose . |
| 3 | The aim was to ensure that subjects had been fixating correctly by requiring them to report this digit immediately prior to recalling the stimulus . |
| 4 | Nor does it impress Freud to be told that religious propositions are ‘ as if ’ types of proposition , and that one should live ‘ as if ’ it were true that there were gods , or God , for there is nothing to lose this way . |
| 5 | Studies carried out in Hull , did nothing to confirm this prediction . |
| 6 | Do you want me to sew this back on for you babe ? |
| 7 | No , not everyone goes that way . |
| 8 | We should approach the white public school middle class networks in the business world and let them deliver some money . |
| 9 | Doctors can ask us all sorts of intimate questions and expect honest answers ; in return , we expect them to treat this knowledge confidentially and not to gossip about the state of our health . |
| 10 | ‘ Please , let me stay another minute or two , ’ said Melissa quietly . |
| 11 | ‘ When I saw death coming towards me I began to think it had been a bad business for me to kill that guy . ’ |
| 12 | There were an awful lot of tedious hours for me to kill that evening . |
| 13 | Or perhaps it is all that rain which makes me want more water . |
| 14 | Everyone agreed that investiture by lay rulers conferred no spiritual power : it did no more than put a prelate in possession of the rights , lands , and secular dignities of his new office . |
| 15 | Everyone agreed that tinnitus was worse when they were tired , particularly when they were mentally tired rather than physically tired . |
| 16 | ‘ Everyone agrees that confidence is the magic ingredient needed to spark recovery . |
| 17 | EVERYONE agrees that computing in the 1990s will be dominated by client-server networks , but there is no agreement about the form these will take . |
| 18 | There was , nevertheless , an element of truth in both these allegations , but Wigg was the wrong man against whom to hurl such invective and he launched a libel action . |
| 19 | She do n't pay me got another pack of peanuts so I have got a few that few , but you do n't need any old bag do you ? |
| 20 | Gravity attracts objects towards each other ; antigravity would make them repel each other . |
| 21 | ‘ Clever of me to acquire such information , do n't you agree ? ’ |
| 22 | They wanted me to wear this wig , a gross , thick , nylon thing like something out of the Nolan sisters . |
| 23 | He dodged between the startled shoppers , none of whom made any attempt to stop him . |
| 24 | Nothing made any sense . ’ |
| 25 | What was there to be so glad about when nothing made any difference ? |
| 26 | He urged them to compare any sum they had in mind with damages that might be awarded for physical injuries that lasted a lifetime . |
| 27 | Notices attached to them make this plain . |
| 28 | We asked James what he thought about his new job : ‘ Erm … like … you know … this gorgeous girlie was buying me drinks all night … like … you know how it gets … right ! … yeah … well … |
| 29 | In any case , there was not enough time left for me to go that way to look for him . |
| 30 | Do you know what it did to me to see that animal on top of you , about to … ? ’ |