Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How might such processes be affected in female readers ' responses to stories about males , which concern traditionally male interests and which frequently exclude them altogether or restrict them to a passive role ? |
| 2 | In the second group , 69 per cent thought that other factors were more important than qualifications , and in the third , 75 per cent ignored them altogether or considered them meaningless . |
| 3 | I think everyone 's got their own ways of dealing with them , you know certainly some people ignore them , you know I prefer to ignore them rather than taunt them , er possibly because I was n't really friendly with any of them that did go back , I think people who were close friends have found it very awkward and I know even now they 're probably looking daggers at each other you know , that sort of thing . |
| 4 | Towards dawn , she said to his sleeping back that he loved his employers more than he loved her and if he had been half the man he thought himself , he would have left them rather than abandon her . |
| 5 | Respect for young readers is often expressed by working with them as distinct from working for them ; asking them rather than telling them . |
| 6 | D S S will actually pay them rather than telling us to pay them . |
| 7 | I just wonder erm , if this could n't be helped if you like , by increasing them rather than decreasing them , taking over perhaps some of the , not absolutely statutory , but some of the extra use of staff , and I do n't know if it 's possible , but at the moment I worry because some of the homes are only being inspected and visited by members anyway . |
| 8 | Probably better just to take them home , and look at them rather than compile them now . |
| 9 | Both philology and Catholicism are here presented as ‘ languages ’ which Julia is unable to master because she wants to question them and change them rather than accept their inherent systematicity . |
| 10 | German supermarkets have resisted the idea of the PVC eating robot , as they would much rather customers took discarded packaging home with them rather than have their premises swarming with robots . |
| 11 | A different direction is taken by projects such as DASI ( Developing Anti-Sexist Initiatives ) where the aim is ‘ to give girls a positive self-image , and make them aware of the way society controls them rather than to direct them into ‘ male ’ areas of study or work' ( Whyld 1983 , p. 303 ) . |
| 12 | Declaring variables as local , creates them locally and initialises them to zero/null . |
| 13 | I was afraid of getting an arrow in my eyes , but I suddenly remembered I still had an old pair of reading glasses in my pocket , so I put them on and continued my work . |
| 14 | But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave . |
| 15 | I 'll slip them on and put them under my shoes . |
| 16 | Just put them on and throw them away when you 've finished . |
| 17 | She had been talking about the rumble with the Daughters of the American Revolution , playing with Seth 's glasses , putting them on and taking them off . |
| 18 | In a way , a skilled speculator is not unlike a skilled insurance underwriter who accepts risks , prices them , passes them on and hedges them . |
| 19 | ‘ Could we simply take an armful out to the treadmills and put them on and see what happened ? |
| 20 | Next time the Snows are on the programme : ‘ It would be nice if you and I could take them on and split them up , ’ Mr Wilson said . |
| 21 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 22 | It it should n't be necessary either to adjust the microphones , to switch them on or to move them actually . |
| 23 | Urging them on or putting them down . |
| 24 | Mount them on or recess them into a ceiling or down the side of a wall . |
| 25 | Thank them politely and choose someone else . |
| 26 | My mother glared at me suspiciously and told me not be so ridiculous . |
| 27 | She had indeed once worked for a silversmith but had discovered that it was much easier to buy beads and acquire old pieces of jewellery , rearrange them artistically and sell them on market stalls throughout the country . |
| 28 | ‘ If you come across Amy , I think it would be best if you put her in touch with me rather than trying anything on your own . ’ |
| 29 | Yes , I mean I have a very helpful husband , but he 's helping , he sees him himself as helping me rather than doing his share of it without having to ask what help I need . |
| 30 | And I knew , out there , that he would have killed me rather than let me get away . |