Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , where it cut the highway , the steep bank of the river would give them protection from the full force of the hurricane . |
| 2 | But none of them would be tempted to incorporate : capital is already available to them ; incorporation would not give them protection from litigation ; and , perhaps most importantly , they would lose their most precious asset — and their achilles heel — their privacy . |
| 3 | It also gives them protection as they venture across the open plains of sand , where there are no hiding places . |
| 4 | Thus it could be alleged that we are all vulnerable to this power , individuals having little control over their lives , in the shadow of a powerful and looming state which offers them protection and a set of civil/political rights , the main being to elect representatives in return for their acquiescence . |
| 5 | Just as the first Venetians found that the water-logged islands of their lagoon , far from merely affording them protection from their enemies on land , also provided them with ideal access to the sea and with it immense possibilities of wealth and naval power , so it emerged in the course of human social evolution that the psychological mechanisms which had been necessary in socializing man also proved serviceable for many other enterprises and in time produced the great flowering of human culture which we see around us today . |
| 6 | I 'm not very good at them Mum gave me that one it 's been in quite good condition but |
| 7 | yeah we 'll have one of them mum |
| 8 | ( ‘ I tried to join the army when I got out of Borstal ’ , said Kev , an 18 year old skin , ‘ Do me bit and see the world and that . |
| 9 | ‘ Do me bit ? ’ said Dolly . |
| 10 | eh brutal , er brute , er so many er only got a little bit more , eh sort of like you 've got er , I du n no , accent or something or add to it a few words , a few letters I mean , er a more I , a different accent you go to Manchester they said er different accent you go and so different one and to me from the beginning , not now , but from the beginning I was fascinate , I says why do they finish in Italian er ways , or add , you switch and them coins , erm , it still says |
| 11 | He was right ; Browne was a proto-DO of purest frontier type to whom rules and procedures and administrative directives were so much dustbin fodder . |
| 12 | My grant allows me £60 weekly a difference of £9 , I am now getting deeply in debt with my rent . |
| 13 | She always knows me Auntie Jean because me Auntie Jean what favourite from being young |
| 14 | She always knows me Auntie Jean because me Auntie Jean what favourite from being young |
| 15 | and like me Auntie Jean has to go down three and four times a day sometimes . |
| 16 | Like me Uncle Mick 's not got a dog , me Nana 's not got a dog , me Auntie Frances not got a dog . |
| 17 | Well me Auntie Jean and me Mum got passed once , like they 'd been going down and scrubbing it from side at bath and everything . |
| 18 | Well , it 's funny cos like , she 'd , me Mum an that 's been taking her shopping down and she 's been buying it herself and like me Auntie Jean , she goes down three or four times a day sometimes and then she goes down again and it 's all missing ! |
| 19 | I think me Auntie Jean 's , she 'll go off her rocker because she is like I say , me Auntie Jean 's only one that she ever remembers cos like me Auntie Jean takes the meal , like every meal down for her and |
| 20 | I think me Auntie Jean 's , she 'll go off her rocker because she is like I say , me Auntie Jean 's only one that she ever remembers cos like me Auntie Jean takes the meal , like every meal down for her and |
| 21 | I think me Auntie Jean 's , she 'll go off her rocker because she is like I say , me Auntie Jean 's only one that she ever remembers cos like me Auntie Jean takes the meal , like every meal down for her and |
| 22 | More rigorously geometric than her previous and distinctively organic work , the new sculptures appear to mark a change of direction and approach the work of Bruce Nauman or Robert Morris , but their content is consistent and in them Houshiary continues to explore the journey from the body or self to its spirit , as she works towards a major exhibition at Grenoble 's Magasin in 1993 or 1994 . |
| 23 | Since the manufacturers of ‘ Summer 's Eve ’ have complained to you about my comments on their product , I thought I 'd copy to you this letter sent to their PR representative when she sent me literature and samples . |
| 24 | Although usually quite reasonable priced , the cost of using them tots up to a considerable amount over several days . |
| 25 | There were additional factors with this family which compounded their inevitable distress , not least the subsequent diagnosis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in an elder son , in whom signs of clinical abnormality had been recognised before the birth of his younger brother . |
| 26 | I really got into rockabilly through liking The Stones , and through them Chuck Berry , also The Beatles . |
| 27 | Give everyone champagne . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Them bruises is it ? ’ |
| 29 | By not confronting its opponents ' lies when and wherever uttered , it gave them credence . |
| 30 | Although not implausible , these suggestions were not substantiated by any solid evidence , and we had therefore been reluctant to accord them credence . |