Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look on it as an extra bit of security for all that money you 've invested in the station . |
| 2 | Because it 's very , I mean you know mathematicians have written books about this , erm and yeah kids of five or six are quite happily adding and taking away until they get to negative numbers , until someone says ah I 'm going to add to that money you 've got there , I 'm gon na add minus seven . |
| 3 | You could sort me out this week with all that money you 've got . |
| 4 | It 's very high , you know , the interest payments are very high , but for that money you 've borrowed you 'll only pay say , just for a a figure , five hundred pound back for that twenty thousand , five you know , |
| 5 | I like that jumper you 've got on . |
| 6 | Wednesday after playschool I said to you I can afford that jumper I 've got twenty seven pound |
| 7 | She heard the sharp intake of breath ; what little patience he possessed had clearly vanished with her last smart remark . |
| 8 | ‘ Sometimes you come in and feel optimistic because you have done your work the previous night and the morning 's work reminds you of how little progress you have made . |
| 9 | Almost as if he had willed himself there , he found himself standing on the scree at the foot of the rock wall , staring upwards , searching with the little experience he had gained on school climbing expeditions for footholds . |
| 10 | Yeah we 've done that bit we 've done that bit |
| 11 | He saw how every little niggling thing old Andy had given him to do counted — how one developed his muscle , another his eye , a third his judgement of time and distance ; how each hour he spent working with the foremast hands taught him to know and understand them better against the day when such men as they were would look to him for guidance . |
| 12 | When they 'd all gone out she says er , what 's that noise they keep making ? |
| 13 | That noise she had heard , that deep , sighing breath ! |
| 14 | What little money he did have was spent on a record selected with extreme care which became , to his way of thinking , a possession close to his heart . |
| 15 | And I think that a lot of shoppers tend to forget that every time you buy anything from a shop , even if all you spent is ten pence , it does n't matter how little money you 've spent , but every time you buy anything from a shop you have a contract with the shop and the shop has a contract with you . |
| 16 | The Parks Department 's budget might be dwindling all the time , but with the help of local businesses , the Council 's spending what little money it does have adding a splash of colour to otherwise rather ordinary landmarks like shopping centres and roundabouts . |
| 17 | Because just by that simple act of handing over your money at the checkout and receiving the goods in exchange , just by doing that , you have entered into a contract with the shop and as , as a result of that contract you 've got the three rights which the consumer advisor mentioned on the tape . |
| 18 | And to understand that change I want to go back to the beginning and just to trace what has happened to the Chinese Communist Party since it was formed in nineteen twenty one when it had a mere I hope everybody can see that , it 's not very large today and I do n't think I can any better than that In nineteen twenty one when it was first founded , it had a mere fifty seven members and it did n't grow very much for a number of years . |
| 19 | In each case they have proved a potentially effective instrument for channelling productive local suggestions and for achieving sensible modifications in centrally designed materials . |
| 20 | In each case it attempts to explain what decisions are made , by whom , and how ; why the system operates in the way it does ; the problems that arise and the pressures for change ; the obstacles which inhibit change ; the effectiveness of different forms of accountability and the viability of alternatives to existing practices . |
| 21 | My destinations have all been identified by linguists , in papers which have appeared in the last five years or so , as well worth a visit , and in each case I have found the excursion worthwhile . |
| 22 | Very small constellations have not been given separate maps , and in each case I have added some of the stars in adjacent groups to help in identification . |
| 23 | In each case you 've got to make a fixing of some sort — either driving a nail or a screw . |
| 24 | What little hair he had shone with a silver sheen in the lamplight and she could see in the crumpled , brick-red face , the likeness of Stephen . |
| 25 | I heard Ryan coming on a good wee bit behind him , but this , up that path like , I says to if that wee fella fell off that bike he 's killed . |
| 26 | On the way home from school that afternoon she began to mull over the various possibilities , and when at last the germ of a brilliant idea hit her , she began to expand on it and lay her plans with the same kind of care the Duke of Wellington had done before the Battle of Waterloo . |
| 27 | That afternoon he had published his plan of attack , now known to every man in the ranks . |
| 28 | When he walked through the factory gates that afternoon he 'd walked away from everything . |
| 29 | That afternoon I meant to search the Bible for information , though I knew little of it . |
| 30 | Now in that case we had to select those measures er by knowledge of the problem . |