Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She herself was keen and alert and quick off the mark , and she became cross when Sarah 's slow and dreamy ways lost thee Imps points in team games . |
| 2 | Anxiety management training is about helping clients to understand what is going on , then teaching them skills to cope with anxiety , then encouraging them to put themselves deliberately into situations which create anxiety but with which they cope successfully . |
| 3 | She watched the great elms but saw no movement ; they were quiet , now , though around them birds rose in short flight , then settled again . |
| 4 | ‘ In the end I held them against my side under my arm with the suspenders dangling down and some woman said , ‘ Eh , girl them suspenders look as if you should be milking them . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Why has you got all them words written under them ? ’ asked George . |
| 6 | A project designed to keep bored youngsters from resorting to car crime by giving them motorbikes to play with has been receiving some expert advice . |
| 7 | They take them to museums ; they give them cars to drive around town ; they introduce them to everyone worth knowing in Texas . |
| 8 | It took me months to get over it . ’ |
| 9 | That I may be able to go down into the Saxon crypt of a cathedral , a tiny , exquisitely rude little chapel , where a thousand years ago my forefathers knelt in prayer , is a draught of pure oxygen . |
| 10 | ‘ My houses have to be about the right thing , ’ he told Endill . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'll probably go to bed with an ache somewhere else if all my plans come to fruition , ’ she told him insolently . |
| 12 | My plans had to be very long-term at first . |
| 13 | When my sons went to the village school there was respect and they knew that they could not ‘ nannick ’ about in school , even if they did while on the way there . |
| 14 | ‘ For two years me and my sons walked along the towpath and park searching for a zip or the buckle of Brian 's belt , anything that would help . ’ |
| 15 | I had n't come all this way to see my sons turn into doctors . |
| 16 | Personally though I do n't mind hefty boots and would prefer to feel the greater support around my ankles offered by other boots in the High Country range . |
| 17 | I strongly resent having my views sought in such an underhand way . |
| 18 | However , my sense of superiority was soon punctured when I gave a paper on semantics at the Philological Society , where my views met with scepticism and some hostility . |
| 19 | I will make my views known to the world community and to UNESCO ’ . |
| 20 | They were having an intense and appropriately heated discussion on the problems of cold-spots ( as evinced by the fact that their first attempts came out looking like braille roundels ) , and on the unfortunate instability of three poppadoms balanced together — caused not so much by the jerk they received when the turntable started up as by their movements while they cooked and swelled — but eventually my flatmates settled on the concept of standing the things up individually on the glass turntable , and so instigated what they termed a ‘ brainstorming session ’ in an attempt to find a suitable support mechanism . |
| 21 | And that tuned in well with my inclinations to look for formal qualities and make more or less abstract patterns out of nature . |
| 22 | Personally , I prefer the heads on my woods made from seasoned wood . |
| 23 | ‘ Do my wishes count for nothing in this house ? ’ |
| 24 | The hotel staff were wonderful , coping with the unusual load with quiet , efficient speed and within half an hour I was installed , my possessions absorbed into cupboards and a free-standing rail supplied to accommodate my surplus clothes . |
| 25 | It was a battle of weight versus cost , a battle which , to my husband 's dismay , I usually lost and we would have to pay over the odds to have my cases stowed in the hold of the Jumbo . |
| 26 | I left my cases parked on the quay , and made my way into the post office . |
| 27 | Aye , work study , getting my minutes caught in there cos there was , er but at the time I left there they was doing a lot of shifting about and they were talking about shutting the old sewing . |
| 28 | What my solicitors finding from a letter let me tell you why I ask . |
| 29 | I do n't feel that music is the most appropriate forum for social change because frankly I do n't think my opinions are valid for everyone , so I would n't want my opinions echoed by hundreds of thousands of people buying T-shirts with my name on them . |
| 30 | I grab him by the lapels , and as my fingers scrabble for a hold I drop my little micro-transmitter into his breast pocket . |