Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [pers pn] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And he 'll tell you that each of us would-be Marines is one in a million — one in a billion — except for he who sets himself above the rest of his brothers ; and that one is less . ’ |
| 2 | She had the same mousy brown hair as George himself , except on her it looked right . |
| 3 | DI 'd through a desk and recorded onto both DAT and cassette utilising the onboard amp simulator , the distortion could n't be described as amazing , but I presume this must be what people expect to hear these days , although to me it does n't sound too close to what you 'd get from a guitar amp . |
| 4 | Old servants of the railway company came into the signal-box from which the broadcast was given and spoke of the closing of the station as if for them it was the end of a world . |
| 5 | I said and that 's if for me I said parting company if we go to dinner we stay together ! |
| 6 | If between them they acquire ( when aggregated with their existing holdings of shares ) 30 per cent or more of the target 's voting rights they might similarly breach Rule 5 or trigger an obligation to make a mandatory offer for the target themselves . |
| 7 | In the end the doctor , being far-sighted enough to believe in the value of hypnosis when properly practised , sent her to me to see if between us we could unearth the cause of the problem . |
| 8 | And , if like me you believe that dreams come true , you should hang on to them . |
| 9 | Now , if like me you 've yet to attempt this big production number you could pick up a few tips here , after all , we 've a number of professionals in this hundred , hoteliers , dressmakers , cake makers , photographers , and video makers , registrars , ministers , but above all , we have a lot ex-brides here , and let's start off by finding how many we have . |
| 10 | Yeah it says , Romans ten , verse thirteen , for every everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah , will be saved , however , how will they call on him if in him they 'd not put faith , how in turn will they put faith in him , if him they 've not heard , how in turn will they hear without someone to preach , how in turn will they preach unless they 've been sent forth , just as it is written , how come we are at the feet of those who declare good news of good things well that 's more or less what we were saying is n't it ? |
| 11 | He sat quite still , his hands on his knees , making no attempt to reply to her , as if to him her question was boring and irrelevant . |
| 12 | I can see how those faded images might suggest sultry nights of Mediterranean passion even if to me they now evoke only memories of sunburn and Retsina hangovers . |
| 13 | Cos without him you could n't get your harvest in and tomorrow it might be raining . |
| 14 | Cos to me I was n't but they said I was talking posh on the tape . |
| 15 | Yeah , yeah and she 's , yeah , and she says she 's so fed cos to her there 's nothing wrong with her , the baby did put on weight last week , but she said you know , what do you do in here all day . |
| 16 | If by it we mean a support system to strengthen and assist those who wish to engage in political lobbying , well and good , but if we are to take on a proper campaigning role as Oxfam has done , then this would require additional staff with the necessary experience and specialisation . |
| 17 | It was the therapy that gave me the strength to leave my girlfriend because through it I established the fact that I was prone to passivity , always waiting for other people to call the shots . |
| 18 | Most years this gave rise to no special problem , but eventually there was an occasion when the king 's enjoyment of the Easter Feast was spoilt by the absence of his queen , who was still fasting because for her it was Palm Sunday . |
| 19 | I view employment positively , because for me it is a routine which I enjoy and which keeps me going . |
| 20 | I do n't particularly see it as compromise because for me it is a method of going forward , if you can agree on something which is a basic principled demand around a particular issue and then pull into action a broader range of people around that . ’ |
| 21 | Right , er another situation where there 's men and women differences is in multilingual communities , er you find that men and women 's attitudes to varieties or language varieties or languages can carry so some men will try and avoid using one of their languages because they see it as a low prestige variety whereas some women will use it because for them it 's a high prestige variety . |
| 22 | All day long you will work and you will slave , Allowing wheelchairs to go where you pave , Just look at the kids to keep tiredness at bay , Because for them you are making it a better day . |
| 23 | We were not much concerned at discovering that we shared our beds with lice , or that the hotel also doubled as a brothel for the town 's leading gentry , because for us it had the finest view in the world . |
| 24 | He denies that we know that gold is malleable , because for us there is no ‘ universal certainty ’ about it . |
| 25 | What is important to note is that the collaboration between Grover Jackson and Randy Rhoads in designing this guitar was both fruitful and a complete success , because between them they produced an instrument which , in Randy 's hands , has provided itself with an impressive track record . |
| 26 | Rather , these mini-biographies have been chosen because between them they cover the gamut of the life experiences of the user group as a whole . |
| 27 | At lunch time Derek and I almost caused a riot in the dining hall , because between us we could obviously only sit at two tables at once and every table wanted us to sit with them . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's only hard because between us we 've made it that way , ’ he murmured softly . |
| 29 | Because of him she had had to waste valuable days sightseeing , all the time aware of him breathing down her neck , and conscious that Lori had an extremely low boredom level . |
| 30 | Because of him I see art in a different way , a new way . |