Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [pron] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She advises me that the treatment involves the implant of brain cells from an aborted foetus which must be 10 to 11 weeks ' gestation . |
| 2 | She asks us if the cinema in front of which we 're standing , the one with the large sign saying ‘ Odeon Mezzanine ’ , could in fact by any chance be the Odeon Mezzanine . |
| 3 | She tells me that the Mum has applied for free meals but should really pay back the money owed . |
| 4 | Trying to be positive about her inability so far to have a child , Wendy says she tells herself that the whole experience has made her a stronger person . |
| 5 | She reminds us that the battle against the modernist masters was indeed a campaign to counter the sanitised aesthetic conventions of art embodied ( mainly ) in the practice of painting . |
| 6 | The allegorical figure of Holy Church sets him on an inner journey as she teaches him that the object of his being is to discover a natural inward knowledge of a love for God that is greater than any other preoccupation . |
| 7 | Just , you 've got ta go on that , and she presses it and the chart thing which is press that one and it 'll get rid of it all . |
| 8 | Then the logic of the social system and the antagonism of classes continues to develop so that ultimately it destroys itself and the material conditions which brought it about . |
| 9 | It angers me that an insurance company attempted to kick us in the teeth when all we were trying to do was protect ourselves . ’ |
| 10 | It amazes me that a pair of shoes made in the north of England can cost more in common currency in London than that same pair of shoes shipped 3,000 miles to New York . |
| 11 | It amazes me that the fine for moving a seat reservation card is actually more that the one for pulling the communication cord . |
| 12 | He shouts something but the wind wrenches it away . |
| 13 | IF IT worries you that the national survey on sexual habits is not going to take place , you could take comfort from the thought that it probably wo n't make a vast amount of difference in the long run . |
| 14 | He comes back , swears he loves me and the children , but claims he can not live with us any more . |
| 15 | He says your when a ambulance comes for people who are sick they have the and there 'll be somebody who maybe really seriously ill by the time tha that they ask where to get to such and such a place by the time they 're there sometimes the people dead ! |
| 16 | Selling was more painful than being sold , a variant of this hurts me more than it hurts you and a comic resourcefulness worthy of Falstaff in his ‘ let him kill the next Percy himself ’ vein . |
| 17 | The Minister should realise that it says everything that the Government should put in no financial support for the Devon and Cornwall development company . |
| 18 | There is always a mournful pleasure in being the bringer of bad news , unless it affects you or the recipients intimately . |
| 19 | It reassures us that the hierarchy created within the company does not threaten individual liberty because it is the outcome of a voluntary consensual arrangement . |
| 20 | The Oxford Thesaurus Electronic Edition is very easy to use , the results of a search appear on the screen almost instantaneously and it lacks nothing that the book would have . |
| 21 | Ca ca n't you just , ca n't Jim just brief his staff , but er as far as that 's concerned w he takes it that the Q S has asked him to do all the site measurement er and that they will then produce the certification |
| 22 | It , it , it , it , it 's , it , it surprises me that the amount of waste er that the proportion of , of the waste is , is , is fifty percent being er , er , er being builders ' rubble not to put too fine a point on it . |
| 23 | It tells us that the object and term of creation is man . |
| 24 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 25 | First , it tells us that the basic currency of the industry is not bits and bytes and the complex trappings of electronic technology . |
| 26 | And it tells us whether the curves . |
| 27 | He tells me that a girlfriend of his was fishing , with her mother , from a rowing boat in the fjord near Tromsø one day . |
| 28 | He tells me that the National Front 's ‘ a load of rubbish ’ , that politicians are ‘ a waste of time ’ and that when he sees his nan , … ‘ she 's always on about me getting a job . |
| 29 | Later he tells me that the apocalypse will also mean the end of macho . |
| 30 | A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do |