Example sentences of "words [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next phase involved giving the subject a surprise memory test in which s/he was given a list of 80 words — ; the original plus 40 distractors of a similar type — ; and was asked to tick the boxes corresponding to the words which s/he recognised as those presented in the tachistoscope . |
| 2 | In others the difficulty is to stop loquacious informants from pouring out an endless stream of words which they positively insist on having recorded . |
| 3 | The court can not attach a meaning to words which they can not bear , but if the words are capable of bearing more than one meaning why should not Parliament 's true intention be enforced rather than thwarted ? |
| 4 | We will discover whether there is a real commitment or whether it is simply words which they hope that the Scottish public will forget were ever uttered so that in the fullness of time they can shunt the companies off to the private sector to do with them as it will . |
| 5 | ‘ And yet to have been there and heard none of the holy words which we should naturally have listened for from those lips at such a time — how distressing ! ’ |
| 6 | Advocates of this kind of approach take everyday experiences ( like cooking ) and use them to clarify those words which we use to explain mathematics and to vivify the abstractions which are central to the subject . |
| 7 | It may be that when we express our opinions , we only have available to us ready-made sets of ideas , ‘ discourses ’ , other people 's words which we choose from , string together in different ways and think ( mistakenly ) to be our own ; these include ‘ expert ’ ideas and the colloquial , common-sense versions of them absorbed by ordinary people in one way or another . |
| 8 | It is all too easy to daydream while reading and thereby not recognise words which we are looking at , but it is also possible to recognise words which we are not looking at . |
| 9 | It is all too easy to daydream while reading and thereby not recognise words which we are looking at , but it is also possible to recognise words which we are not looking at . |
| 10 | The the words which we have been given by the product engineer , is that the Department of Transport , and that was his words , committed to this scheme . |
| 11 | In the tendency of certain systems of kinship terms to group large numbers of people under words which he translated as ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ lay his proof for the existence of the communal marriages on which his theory of the evolution of the family , in general , and of the gens , in particular , rested . |
| 12 | At the time , Anselm seems not to have been aware of the importance of the words which he heard , for he left Rome the next day without further discussion and returned to Lyons . |
| 13 | However hopeless things were he was rejoicing because of Benedicta 's words which he hugged to himself as if they were precious jewels . |
| 14 | ‘ The judge may read in words which he considers to be necessarily implied by words which are already in the statute , and he has a limited power to add to , alter or ignore statutory words in order to prevent a provision from being unintelligible or absurd or totally unreasonable , unworkable or totally irreconcilable with the rest of the statute . ’ |
| 15 | The power of words which he had disclaimed sprang golden in his mouth . |
| 16 | This was echoed by another boy : You see , my mom right , she says some words to me , right , sometimes , right , wha' I ca n't understand you know an' I sort of start laughin' , but then again right , y' know , I can understand some o' de words which she says to me y' know — I even speak it back to her , y' see . |
| 17 | You can , for example , create exercises on only the 500 most frequent words , or those words which you have put into your ‘ Unit 15 sluice ’ or your ‘ Banking sluice ’ . |
| 18 | Writing the words in your book provides you with a ready-made store of words which you know your pupils have difficulty with , and from which you can construct a teaching programme . |
| 19 | sat back in her chair and brought out the list of words which you were supposed to know after each book . |
| 20 | This shows that they are words you are mentioning , or borrowing from another type of discourse , rather than words which you are using " in your own voice " . |
| 21 | Sorry , they 're the words which you were . |
| 22 | You can appreciate by the remarks my agent made to me on the telephone ( words which I swear I have not amended or distorted in any way at all ) just how big and unpleasant a problem I have sitting like a gibbering troll on my innocent shoulders . |
| 23 | Now these are the words which I , the High Commissioner , have to say for the future . |
| 24 | But now I 'm looking at 15 articles totalling 20,000 words which I must deliver within the next six days . |
| 25 | He then referred to a passage from the judgment of Nolan J. in Anderton v. Lythgoe [ 1985 ] 1 W.L.R. 222 , 228 , including the words which I have earlier cited . |
| 26 | After supper the ladies sung Erse songs , to which I listened as an English audience to an Italian opera , delighted with the sound of words which I did not understand . ’ |
| 27 | The words which I have read are plain : it was Mr. Vanbergen who said he was going down to Eastbourne , that he was going down as part of his business , and that he did not think he would be getting back after his business on Thursday in time to pay it on Thursday , and the concession arose out of the question whether or not the debtor could be back in town in time to bring it himself , because he frankly said he was trying to get a little more time . |
| 28 | So in other words you you are saying instead of six to eight , it 's six to ten . |
| 29 | Er so in other words it it muddies the water and it seems to me that it 's quite unnoted because it be suggesting a policy which is to counteract the effect of erm section fifty four A. |
| 30 | Write some ideas here The cause of all this is a common problem in society today -we tend to judge people on their ‘ professional status ’ , in other words what they do and how much they are paid . |