Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos they do n't have any notes or anything do they ? |
| 2 | He said : ‘ You see Hunter-Blair at parties or he rings you up when he wants his name in your column . ’ |
| 3 | I lowered my eyes once I knew he was all right . |
| 4 | I would n't mind betting that Bill 's lists that you gave him actually contained all these things and only then can we actually put them down in order . |
| 5 | The truth is that most of us eat ( and drink ) more calories than we think we are eating ( and drinking ) in the course of a day . |
| 6 | Ruth did not have to finish what she had begun to say ; she saw from the look in their eyes that they understood her . |
| 7 | Shiona could see from his eyes that he meant it . |
| 8 | According to one report , he told a group of journalists that he believed he ought to have been given the interim presidency . |
| 9 | One of Crossman 's cardinal convictions was that Britain was run not as a democracy but as an oligarchy — and that view of his was perhaps partially reflected in my own youthful outburst against the essentially incestuous relationship between politicians and journalists that I thought I had discovered even within the people 's party . |
| 10 | About this time I had , by a certain wicked attempt — for I had a bold heart which rather put me upon courting than avoiding danger — set a hornet 's nest about my ears so I thought it better to remove myself to France and be a little more discreet in my armours . |
| 11 | It is precisely because costs are passed on to third parties that we let them occur . |
| 12 | And I 'll go through some strengths that we feel they have and the monopoly obviously is one of the er major strengths . |
| 13 | One farmer told the authors that it cost him 194,000 Somali shillings ( $14 ) to grow 100 kilos ( 220lbs ) of maize , which he could sell for a mere 55,000 shillings at the local market . |
| 14 | As I entered the committee room from the standard uncarpeted passage , I was given a friendly and businesslike handshake by the chairman , Lord Franks , who had courteously got out of his chair to greet his witness — an unfailing politeness that I gather he extended to every other witness . |
| 15 | I would say to other pregnant teenagers that I think it 's great if they are happy about it . |
| 16 | I mean , I had Tony to go through and find key words that we knew we were going to need , you know , simple words like the , of , with , a , that sort of thing , that we knew that okay , we would n't use immediately , but we 'd look , ah there that goes there , and use it straight away . |
| 17 | The way people talk over here is pure poetry and nobody is really using that in songs so I thought I 'd have a go . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work . |
| 20 | In this way the youngsters make it clear that they are not yet mature enough to be considered rivals for territories or breeding partners and are allowed to feed on the reef beside their parents for the several months that it takes them to grow to maturity . |
| 21 | If you do give your heroine this skill you will have to some extent to prove to your readers that she had it . |
| 22 | The working party on Equal Opportunities that I said I would convene ? |
| 23 | The words of the songs , even given the fact that much is lost in translation , are disappointing ; such is the passion and power of the voices that you feel they must be singing about life and death matters . |
| 24 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 25 | besides a great many sins that he knew he had done that he could not remember . |
| 26 | Even if it is true that policemen require special protection in the course of their duties because of the proactive roles that we expect them to undertake , it does not follow that the person who assaults them without justification should be marked as having committed what is , in reality , an aggravated form of assault . |
| 27 | Remember their contact demands that they provide you with an office desk and telephone facility for three weeks |
| 28 | It is only when you stop scanning the horizon for monumental shapes that you realise they have been looming unnoticed in the foreground all along . |
| 29 | in other words if you read it without any experience you might start thinking that it 's giving you a vision of the real heaven where as it 's just symbolic |
| 30 | Moving trauma can be lessened for pets if you keep them away from the hustle and bustle . |