Example sentences of "[pers pn] [coord] [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This concerns the capacity to discern how far the content of a belief is positive as opposed to negative , and how far this promotes engagement with people rather than indifference to them or denial of them as persons . |
| 2 | So take the initiative : if you ca n't avoid them , outrun them or reason with them , you are going to have to fight your way out . |
| 3 | If it 's impossible to placate them or reason with them , if they insist on making your life a misery , if you ca n't get help from friends or a higher authority , then you must turn the tables on them — and fast . |
| 4 | And erm but I mean I remember when I I was doing er work with the Open University now I was a sort of er tutor with them or counsellor with them and I think we used to say ten to fifteen hours work a week |
| 5 | who had an estate and there were St Trinian 's incidentally er , inciden that 's where the name came from for the books and friend of theirs and relation of his wrote the book I do n't know , something like that , and anyhow eventually I got |
| 6 | goodbye , see you tomorrow at six AM , well goodbye from me and goodbye from him , and ta ra too |
| 7 | ‘ I think Gran might have demanded the money because she thought I had a right to it , but it was for love of me and despair at our poverty — her kind of rough justice . ’ |
| 8 | If I whistled , it would come back to me and rest on my shoulder again . |
| 9 | Yet I did not know which to trust : the splintered yet separately concrete vision of myself each man offered me which was the product of his necessary fantasy ; or the amorphous , difficult to establish whole self which struggled to say that his vision of me and mine through his , had distorted it . |
| 10 | ‘ He said if I 'd done exactly what he told me , and there were no tricks , he 'd contact me and hand over his evidence , and he would n't bother me any more . ’ |
| 11 | She wanted to prod them and gaze into their eyes to check they were n't real . |
| 12 | They would come sometimes for my birthday , or at Christmas , and my mother , whose material circumstances were very much more comfortable than those of my father and his new family , would patronise them and condole with my stepmother on my father 's drinking habits and the undisciplined weeping of her little boy . |
| 13 | It was a sound they knew , one often heard at night from within the dark walls of the cottages in the village , but out here it was around them and with them and part of them and it had an eerie quality as though inside the vixen some diabolic spirit was entrapped , a demon screeching its despair . |
| 14 | My instructions were badly translated , so I soon had to abandon them and struggle on my own . |
| 15 | The popularity of programme types did not change much , although there was always great variation within them and overlap between them . |
| 16 | He realized that there must be meetings , and he was prepared to go to them and fire off his battery of buzz words which signified he was ‘ one of us ’ . |
| 17 | The Secretary of State at the head of its sponsoring Department of State must lay its annual report and accounts before Parliament which may debate them and which may , if it thinks fit , call the Chairman and others before a select committee , examine them and report on their performance . |
| 18 | Travis smiled , and as Leith suddenly realised how she and Naylor with their arms about each other must look to anyone coming in , self-conscious all of a sudden , she stepped out of Naylor 's hold . |
| 19 | I 've just had a phone call in I 've just erm had a phone call from a conference company and she and part of her research the woman in came on one of my courses to just see what the background and what we were doing . |
| 20 | Why must I always have you and Dad on my back ? |
| 21 | I 'll tell you and Papa about it over tea , if I may . ’ |
| 22 | Take a timetable with you and pore over it . |
| 23 | yes , well , er I follow that , but I 'm sorry I put it rather badly Mr forgive me , part of your defence against the claim by er relates to erm these agreements , you must say that these agreements erm because they are of the standard form are anti competitive and therefore they or part of them are void , erm building on that presumably your defence says or employs er that because erm , you know there void , I du n no perhaps you can tell me this erm , all , all the er all parts of the void , all the power of the agent , the agreements with regard to premium trust funds and the like , er are also unenforceable as between er the erm name and his er members agent , erm and in consequence of that you say , as I understand it , er that that is , all that cause be lost which you can neither set up as a defence to claim under the central bi-law or at least as a set up or counterclaim , I just wanted to explore this aspect of it , erm , as to the consequences of your plea , does it mean that clause nine is put on one side wholly or to an extent in the latter case to what extent ? |
| 24 | His cruel treatment of her in Act III , Scene I is not directed at her personally , but at the ruthlessness of Claudius ' power over her and treatment of her . |
| 25 | Leith waited , very much wanting to invite Travis to join her and Naylor on their walk , but one glance at Naylor — who seemed determined not to invite Travis himself — told her that she 'd regret it if she did . |
| 26 | He 'd destroy her if it was love , tear the heart from her and feast on it as the lion had that day in Auckland . |
| 27 | Lydia was sitting on a stile with the sun behind her and Beuno beside her . |
| 28 | Her surprise turned rapidly to wariness when she saw on his desk a number of daily papers , all with photographs of her and Ace in them . |
| 29 | Her mother came up to her room a short while afterwards and found Pamela in a very distressed state with the empty bottle in front of her and blood on her clothing . |
| 30 | The landlady repeated that she was being very lenient with him but generosity on her part was not without limits , my girl . |