Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although usually quite reasonable priced , the cost of using them tots up to a considerable amount over several days . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Them bruises is it ? ’ |
| 6 | The Tories have identified 73 constituencies , 11 of them marginals , where where 100 or more overseas residents have registered to cast proxy votes on April 9 . |
| 7 | ‘ I come twice a week at a pound a time , so that 's thirteen , say , and then there 's all the times I 've come with me cans . |
| 8 | ‘ And them Druids were disgusting with their tatty beards and dirty finger-nails — ‘ |
| 9 | Seven hundred boys , almost a third of them sons of the clergy , lived their ‘ ultra-Spartan ’ lives in an institution which combined frequently brutal discipline with a consistently meagre diet . |
| 10 | , John James ( 1811–1883 ) , physicist and physical chemist , was born in 1811 in Edinburgh , the sixth of nine children , at least five of them sons , of George Waterston , a manufacturer of sealing-wax and stationery requisites , of Edinburgh , and his wife Jane Blair of Dunkeld . |
| 11 | , Richard Austin ( 1862–1943 ) , detective-story writer , was born 11 April 1862 at 27 Thayer Street , in Marylebone , London , the youngest of five children ( four of them sons ) of Richard Freeman , a journeyman tailor who rose to become the manager of a bespoke tailoring business , and his wife Ann Maria Dunn . |
| 12 | Instead , holdings and dealings would be recorded electronically in an account , corresponding to a bank account , with one of a number of ‘ account operators , ’ linked to TAURUS , from whom shareholders would be able to obtain at any time documentary evidence of the state of their accounts . |
| 13 | It is planned to establish close links between the new Institute and universities , particularly in the north , with whom discussions have already taken place . |
| 14 | Some researchers with whom discussions have been held admit to copying theses obtained on inter-library loan , and justify such behaviour by saying that ‘ it 'll be all right as long as I do n't publish ’ . |
| 15 | He called them seductions , interestingly enough , rather than child sex abuse , as we would perhaps now call it . |
| 16 | The workers for whom employers competed were not merely the ones with the bargaining strength to make unions practicable , but also those most aware that ‘ the market ’ alone guaranteed them neither security nor what they thought they had a right to . |
| 17 | ARSENAL boss George Graham last night blasted his multi-million pound stars for squandering the qualities which made them giants of English football . |
| 18 | But Byrd 's fate , a year after Detroit Lions lineman Mike Utley was paralysed by a neck injury , has brought into sharp focus the perilous nature of a sport based upon fierce physical contact between men — many of them giants — whose bodies were never intended to absorb and administer such punishment . |
| 19 | , Current editions of the UK half-million ICAO Aeronautical Charts have scattered across them pairs of numbers printed in blue , one large figure followed by a smaller one , thus : for example . |
| 20 | Marianne Tranter , a psychiatric social worker at the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street , London , told the audience of nurses and social workers that abused children are ‘ seduced ’ by paedophiles who give them rewards and make threats about disclosure . |
| 21 | It had taken them ages to get back from the Lock and now the evening was drawing in . |
| 22 | Felipe knew them ages ago and they just keep coming . |
| 23 | ‘ The world has been ‘ going to the bad ’ all down me ages . ’ |
| 24 | So I asked Dad , it took me ages , and he said , " What do you want to go on the Pill for ? " |
| 25 | It took me ages . |
| 26 | This letter has taken me ages , i 'm off for some food . |
| 27 | Lasts me ages . |
| 28 | funny it 's like cos they had the keyboard and that sort of rap beat it 's like , and all my kebabs are in salad cream , rap it on , stack it on , that 's my scene , gim me some kebab kebab gim me ages , wicked tune , I mean all these words |
| 29 | Ooh , can I have a prescription for them tablets ? |
| 30 | And er , the doctors were giving me them tablets . |