Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [pron] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mouth jams open , and she says that if I really am going , then either she comes with me or she is staying here to pack . |
| 2 | THERE IS a paranoiac frisson , and more than a little insight , to be had from the thought that we humans are not really in control of our own fates , and that someone or something is using us . |
| 3 | Even if we can convince ourselves that nobody is getting hurt , even if we are sure we are not cheating , we have a suspicion that it is inappropriate . ’ |
| 4 | It seems to me that everything is balanced on a knife-edge . ’ |
| 5 | Well , she tells me that she is going to throw Shaun out because Shaun is boring , er , Don put her , Shaun she has no respect for she says because he has n't got a job , he wo n't get a job , he wo n't work , and she said to Lee what did I think of the idea of taking Pete back , once they were properly divorced take Pete back just as a lover and I said that sounds to me to be a very good idea , I said then your not at his mercy because anybody who 's at Pete 's mercy will suffer , his got a very nasty streak , his got a nasty snide way of putting things . |
| 6 | A nasty suspicion comes to me that he is taking the question seriously . |
| 7 | The new inspector advises me that he is restricting the loan interest relief to that payable on the Halifax loan on the basis that ‘ the net MIRAS arrangements have been fully utilised by the Halifax loan ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Are you telling me that someone is paying you to come here and write about voodoo ? |
| 9 | But Lazio have told them that he is covered by the policy taken out by the Italians at the time of his summer signing from Tottenham . |
| 10 | May I invite the Minister to come to Monmouth to discuss those problems with the farmers there , which will give him the opportunity to assure them that he is seeking to protect their interests ? |
| 11 | That every person is an end in himself or herself is related to the fact that the only thing which is good without qualification and in all circumstances is a good will , something which everyone has the potential to be , whatever talents or gifts of fortune they may or may not possess . |
| 12 | Client agrees with KPMG ( for itself and on trust and as agent for the others mentioned below ) fully to indemnify and to hold harmless KPMG , its partners , employees , its lawyers , [ Stephenson Harwood ] , any Approved Broker and ( subject to Client 's prior consent to their engagement ) any other advisers , agents and consultants retained by KPMG in connection with the Offer ( any and all of which or whom is referred to as an ‘ Indemnified Person ’ ) from and against any and all losses , claims , costs , damages , actions , proceedings , demands , liabilities and expenses whatsoever , joint or several , ( collectively ‘ claims ’ ) which any such Indemnified Person may suffer or incur and which relate to or arise from , directly or indirectly , KPMG 's engagement hereunder and/or the provision by KPMG of its services in connection with the Offer . |
| 13 | But on other occasions , to use a phrase of Nietzsche , ‘ a thought comes when ‘ it ’ wants , not when I want ’ , explodes and opens out too fast in in too complex ramifications to be disciplined , takes bold analogical leaps in defiance of logical rigour ; the problem on which it centres is obscure , defining itself in the process of being solved , and as he struggles to formulate it the thought is running in another direction , yet he yields to the flow out of a vague intimation that it will circle back ; for the final effort to force the argument into a coherent and publicly testable form — the only assurance even for himself that he is illumined and not deluded — he waits until the time comes to complete it on paper . |
| 14 | In many cases he will try to over-compensate by rushing around doing things for others as if to prove to himself that he is needed . |
| 15 | Baynton v. Morgan shows , amongst other things , that this last contention may not always be relied on by the lessee ; and accordingly the position of the defendant is not put otherwise than favourably to himself if it is said that the measure of his liability here , that of a lessee after an assignment , is the performance or non-performance of the covenants in question by his assignees when he can not and does not aver any performance by himself . |
| 16 | Christophe Deylaud has been encouraged to express himself and he is improving in heaps and bounds . |
| 17 | He is a very shrewd businessman who has taken full advantage of having a market very largely to himself and who is suffering a temporary setback as a result of the economy . |
| 18 | Mathematics is a wonderful subject but the physicist has always to ask himself whether he is using those mathematical constructs which are truly appropriate to the way the world is . |
| 19 | ‘ A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated , has not the art of getting drunk . ’ |
| 20 | It 's a shame that someone as obviously capable of expressing himself as you is given to such bursts of undisguised racism and ignorance . |
| 21 | One character , Camille , can not pronounce them until he is fitted with a false palate one more object to get comically lost . |
| 22 | One character , Camille , can not pronounce them until he is fitted with a false palate : one more object to get comically lost . |
| 23 | She is looking for a dress for me and she is waiting to comb my hair , and she has the look on her face that she has when she guts the chickens . |
| 24 | In October 1912 Hourcade wrote : ‘ The term ‘ Cubism ’ … means nothing if it is used to designate a school : there is no school of Cubist painting . |
| 25 | ‘ Atkinson is best running at them and nobody is doing it better . ’ |
| 26 | The McGuires had another son and daughter , Hugh and Jacobina , but little is known of them and it is presumed that they both died young . |
| 27 | One of the factors is that it is a simple format , involving everyone and it is done with gusto and enthusiasm . |
| 28 | On that day , everyone and anyone is invited to visit the campus to see what we do here . |
| 29 | It is arguable that the reader may actually be confused rather than helped by the deviation from convention , precisely because she or he is expecting you to conform to the rules of punctuation . |
| 30 | If you can record interviews at different points in a course , then edit the same student 's interviews onto one tape , you provide an encouraging record for the student of the progress she or he is making . |