Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 2 | I 've spoken to Ockleton , just as Heather did , and what he told me has led me here , just as it led her . ’ |
| 3 | That fellow behind me has got one too . |
| 4 | Each of them has reached me and I know not how to save myself . ’ |
| 5 | He and his son are largely responsible for the countless impressions of Rembrandt 's graphic works , repeatedly reworking the plates so that Rembrandt 's authorship of them has become something of an ethical dilemma . |
| 6 | Ever since , work with and for them has filled their lives . |
| 7 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 8 | The cap that happened to get overlooked returns the reader 's gaze blankly yet unavoidably , like the bill from a restaurant abroad which the conspirators find when they turn out the dead man 's pockets , and like the child 's clay whistle which one of them has provided himself with to give the agreed signal — for he has lost so many teeth that he ca n't trust himself to produce the sound naturally . |
| 9 | Or perhaps I should say , ‘ Another of the Black Sumatras has done it ’ — for our three sooty chickens of this exotic breed are indistinguishable from one another , and we can not be sure which of them has excelled itself . |
| 10 | Well in that case and they 'd been stopping them for us you see and er excuse me stopping them for us and whoever decided to speak to them has had his few words and that 's it carry on . |
| 11 | Jaguar insiders say the company bosses — all 14 of them — are so enthusiastic about the car that every one of them has claimed he 'd spend his own money to buy one if it goes into production . |
| 12 | ‘ I jes breeds 'em , ’ he told his innocent feet . |
| 13 | I goes I went to the end I goes look I 'll tell you all together get it over with I lost my balance and I dropped it . |
| 14 | Er can i just say er before erm I announce the result , I whispered to Frank there in announcing the result I did n't know I could n't pronounce his name so I has to check it . |
| 15 | Is that what this famous doctor father of yours has taught you to do ? ’ |
| 16 | And lass ’ — she now bent over Agnes — ‘ if that Dad of yours has done me lad any deep damage he 'll pay for it . |
| 17 | We are not so silent at home as this panegyric of yours has forced us to be here . ’ |
| 18 | But that Terry of yours has put himself beyond it . |
| 19 | I says join what ? |
| 20 | I did n't know there were a video , I says get your he just tuned it on any channel , I says get your remote control for your telly I says and click |
| 21 | I did n't know there were a video , I says get your he just tuned it on any channel , I says get your remote control for your telly I says and click |
| 22 | Cos I says put them on and let's have a look |
| 23 | He sent his upstairs and he talked through that intercom to me , I says put your , you didnae press the button ! |
| 24 | And I says let us see , and she 's and I says now keep back and I rung Don and explained and the doctor said Jean just ring for an ambulance . |
| 25 | I says , these forms things , I says d' ya know how to fill them in ? |
| 26 | That were first thing I said to her this morning , I says d' ya ask |
| 27 | Well I s I were saying to Irene , I says did you ever get one ? |
| 28 | I says have I ? |
| 29 | She says no , I says have I bronchitis ? |
| 30 | I says have you nothin nicer for a nephew she says ‘ Well if its not there we do n't have it ’ . |