Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no one here who cares for me or will look out for me and I must shift for myself in everything which is not easy now I am big with child and not well as I was with my first-born . |
| 2 | They would have lists of all the people that had bought books from them or might have bought books from them in the past , categorized by where they live , the age of the person , the sex , the special interests , the past purchases , and then they would send out special books erm special letters , if they had a new doggie book coming out they might select all the ladies over fifty-five who had bought doggie books in the past . |
| 3 | Analytical cards are interfiled with the main cards , and constitute another 80 — 100,000 entries , which are all unique to ourselves and would require manual keyboarding by professional staff . |
| 4 | The loaches regard the bogwood cave as being theirs and will protect it against all possible intruders . |
| 5 | Mark Tinkler is a pretty good ball winner/tackler himself and may get the nod when he recovers from his injury . |
| 6 | He had been unpopular in the city since an inquiry in 1321 which led to the curbing of the city 's liberties ; the citizens had probably helped Mortimer to escape from the Tower , and Froissart , who was a Hainaulter himself and may have written on good authority , said that even before Isabella landed she had received secret assurances of support from them . |
| 7 | The official report states : ‘ To have forced his way into Benghazi when the enemy was obviously ready for him would have achieved nothing and would have involved the loss of his force . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And I said Mark Robins is a local lad who cost nothing and should have been given more of a chance . |
| 9 | Is not that the most open admission yet that , despite the honeyed words of the Secretary of State for Scotland , he has done nothing , is doing nothing and will do nothing to intervene in any way to help to save the Ravenscraig plant ? |
| 10 | Indulging in passive leisure activities such as reading and listening to the radio cost nothing and can seem a luxury after a lifetime of sticking to a working schedule . |
| 11 | He knows you were with me and may have set someone to watch for you . ’ |
| 12 | Well what you 're saying is that me and ought to talk to her |
| 13 | It occurred to me that I should perhaps wait for my daughter Sophie outside her school , to make sure she understood that I had not abandoned her , had merely left Lou for a man who loved me and would make me happy ; that things would presently calm down , and as soon as Hugo and I had sorted things out a little and established our new home she could join us . |
| 14 | I hope that the BBC will make more effort in the future to bring more coverage of major tennis events , for example Grand Slams like the French Open , on the scale of coverage they had for Wimbledon because I am sure that there are many people who are in the same situation as me and would like more tennis on TV . |
| 15 | I tried so hard to be good but a lot was expected of children in those days , and I often had nightmares thinking the man would know about me and would come and get me . |
| 16 | ‘ I was greatly heartened and told myself I must previously have misjudged the situation — that my subjects were after all behind me and would see that right was done . ’ |
| 17 | I did not like the prospect of playing in front of all these people who were all older than me and would see my violin playing from a critical view , but I had come this far , and it would be stupid not to go through with the audition . |
| 18 | My mother had said to Lili one day that she thought I was marrying Syl because he was so much older than me and would take the place of my father . |
| 19 | On Friday nights , I 'd stay out till Saturday and my friends envied me and would say , ‘ I wish my mother was more like yours , ’ and I 'd think , ‘ I wish mine was more like yours . ’ |
| 20 | People like Nick ( Kent ) and Charlie ( Murray ) were fraternal towards me and would say , ‘ Listen Tony , people like Johnny Thunders are a real f—-up . |
| 21 | An icy wind was blowing , but the moment Modi saw me he came and said , quite casually , as if referring to something he did n't need in the least : ‘ Look here , I 'll sell you my overcoat , it 's much too big for me and should fit you nicely . ’ ’ |
| 22 | What shocks me and should shock every hon. Member is that those whose total income is so small have to pay out of that income far too much in rent and poll tax . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sick to death of looking over my shoulder every time I come here , wondering and dreading if someone who knows me has seen me and can guess what I 'm coming here for ! ’ |
| 24 | The truth is , she does not seem to wish to see me and will think of every excuse to keep me out of her presence . |
| 25 | Or perhaps I should just wait here — perhaps someone 's gone into town to look for me and will come back eventually — ’ |
| 26 | Very rarely you would come across a person that seemed to think that you were beneath them and ought to do as they said . |
| 27 | Service firms produce service products , but manufacturing firms also produce them and may sell them in connection with their goods . |
| 28 | But the r and K lines were cultured at different densities , so that selection on life-history traits other than late fecundity may also have differed between them and may have accounted for the decline in late fertility of the r -line females . |
| 29 | For those members who have already submitted their views , we would like to thank them and would welcome any additional comments they may have . |
| 30 | He said ‘ you would thing that people were used to elephants , but they love them and would come out and be blessed by her . |