Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [det] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He urged them to compare any sum they had in mind with damages that might be awarded for physical injuries that lasted a lifetime . |
| 2 | When the Editor asked me to write this article I happily agreed . |
| 3 | Whilst it might be unusual for , probably unique in fact , for a to thank a , can I reassure all delegates we are not related so rumour has it . |
| 4 | So if I made some guesses you might be able to answer . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If Proopsie knew , I regret any pain I caused him , ’ she says . |
| 6 | So I mean that day we had to tell a lot of lies , you know , like that . |
| 7 | I mean that thing I went to on Wednesday it must have cost thousands of pounds . |
| 8 | I mean several times I 've bought things from them , there 's stately homes , they do the same thing , do n't they ? |
| 9 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 10 | I mean this bit I like . |
| 11 | I mean some evenings it would be quite quiet and maybe just the next-door neighbour |
| 12 | I mean some bands they come over here and they disappear , they forget England . |
| 13 | I mean some bands they come over here and they disappear , they forget England . |
| 14 | By political I mean those cases which arise out of controversial legislation or controversial action initiated by public authorities , or which touch important moral or social issues . |
| 15 | I mean these characters nobody realizes that that that in America , Motown did n't look after their stars very well . |
| 16 | It 's a bit they , I mean these people they even do interest free credit |
| 17 | By ‘ externalist ’ in this context I mean any theory which denies that a mental episode has any meaning-content intrinsically , and affirms that its content consists in some external relation to other things . |
| 18 | So , it 's the same agenda , so if everybody 's okay with that note , I mean most things I think come up |
| 19 | Before I lose that home I 've got , I 'm |
| 20 | When I develop that thesis it will be seen that I agree with McDowell as to the intrinsic attractiveness or repulsiveness of value qualities . |
| 21 | So that is one thing as I develop this theme you 'll you 'll see . |
| 22 | The first time I met this creature she was an unlettered half-caste peasant who smelt of stale sweat and dead chickens . |
| 23 | Next time I passed that way I kept a look-out , and sure enough , there it was , sleeping in the same ‘ couch ’ on the skerry . |
| 24 | I 've been doing this for twenty five years so the best deal I 've ever done is the sale I make each week which brings me three hundred quidHe later went onto spend over five hundred pounds on a Mickey Mouse Toy . |
| 25 | ‘ I got some humbugs I was goin' to slip in me mouth . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Ruth 's eating her tea , ’ said Emma , ‘ I got those sausages she likes , and tomatoes . ’ |
| 27 | Now , Michael Bolton was from my town , Newhaven , and this guy I knew just knew him , and he says , ‘ Michael , I got this kid I 'm thinking of managing ; tell me what you think of him . ’ |
| 28 | the kitchen 's awful , I hate that kitchen its awful with that kitchen with the back door in the middle of it , why have they got a back door in the middle of their kitchen ? its right in the middle of it |
| 29 | I hate that top she wears . |
| 30 | oh look my bags open , tt , I hate this bag it always comes open |