Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd best eat them afore they gits cold . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The third defendant denies the plaintiffs ' claim against him but if contrary to his contentions he is held liable to the plaintiffs , he claims against you to be indemnified against the plaintiffs ' claims and the costs of this action , alternatively contribution to such extent of the plaintiffs ' claims as the court may think fit , on the grounds that ( 1 ) at all material times , you were the accountants retained by and advising the plaintiffs and each of them in respect of the proposed transaction ( and in particular the financial aspects thereof ) in relation to which the said alleged liability of the plaintiffs and each of them to [ B.M.T. ] was incurred ; ( 2 ) in about the period from January to September 1983 , you acted in breach of contract and negligently towards the plaintiffs and each of them in that you failed to advise them properly or at all with regard to the said proposed transaction and the financial aspects thereof and in particular failed to explain the full nature and extent thereof to the plaintiffs and each of them and/or failed to advise the plaintiffs as to the commercial prudence of the same and/or the risks inherent in proceeding with the same and/or failed to warn them not to enter into the same ; ( 3 ) that in so far as any financial information was or may have been communicated by the third defendant he did so in reliance upon information supplied by you . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , please call me Julia-if you would n't mind , ’ said Julia . |
| 4 | ‘ Thoo should 'ave waited for me afore fastening 'im . |
| 5 | Never fancied thee afore , but now … ’ |
| 6 | You could n't often get big sizes in them & I do n't think they did boys ' sizes in Dr. Martens — when they did , some girls wore them . |
| 7 | King agreed with me as to Mr Gould being an entirely uneducated man — he sd when he came here [ to Sydney ] he brought verbal introductions from Sir J. to difft. individuals & went up to them & sd . |
| 8 | 2 WHAT WAS THE WAGE GIVEN TO THEM & WAS THIS SUFFICIENT ? |
| 9 | If you are using these , keep them where they ca n't be tampered with . |
| 10 | Though Rivers gave some slight encouragement to Eliot in suggesting that even in our own society , religious changes have unforeseen and far-reaching effects parallel to those caused by the abolition of head-hunting in Melanesia , Eliot 's linking of ‘ cannibal isle ’ and that ‘ slick place ’ London goes directly against the main thrust of the book which stresses ‘ the almost immeasurable difference between Melanesian and European cultures , and the sharpness of the line which still divides them where they come in contact ’ . |
| 11 | He sat down at his desk , straightening his things that Lee had moved , putting them where they had been before , in the exact spot . |
| 12 | Not only did they enjoy , indeed relish , healthy sexual appetites , they made it obvious that they would satisfy them where and when they felt like it , on their Own terms . |
| 13 | I remember digging for what seemed like hours to lift those bulbs , so make sure you plant them where they will not need to be moved and allow ample room for their growth . |
| 14 | Work out ways of splitting the incoming crowd and directing them where you want them to go . |
| 15 | Should we help blues singers to find a wider audience , outside the coloured quarters of Southern towns , or should we leave them where they are , that the blues may thrive ? |
| 16 | Together they plot to undermine and ruin their errant spouses by hitting them where it hurts corporate types the hardest : their egos and bank balances . |
| 17 | And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together he demanded of them where Christ should be born . |
| 18 | All children should be supported in valuing their own dialects and in using them where they are appropriate to context and purpose , but they should also be able to use Standard English when it is necessary and helpful to do so in speaking as well as writing . |
| 19 | There was a council estate behind them where Bean lived . |
| 20 | It would be part of the Foundation 's role in partnership at all levels to encourage development of networks where they do not already exist , and to reinforce them where they do — for greater consolidated strength and continuous intercommunication . |
| 21 | I can tell of many schools and many teachers doing an exciting job under very difficult circumstances : a school set up in abandoned , corrugated iron railway sheds in Ghana with no partitions , hot at midday and unspeakably noisy during rainstorms , yet well equipped with a cheerful co-operative staff , an open plan school , Ghana style ; an overcrowded school in Lesotho where teachers had evolved their own brand of team-teaching , one teacher imparting information to a class of 120 , followed by groupwork where two teachers and a student supervised written work ; a school down the road from them where Class I and 2 teachers who finished teaching at lunchtime had organised afternoon sessions on remedial reading for older children ; another in Francistown , Botswana , in temporary classrooms , with walls made of hessian and children organised into ‘ family groups ’ playing reading and number games under the guidance of older children . |
| 22 | Kenneth impressed them where I had failed , and our room was upgraded to a suite as soon as he laid the lardy accent on them . |
| 23 | The Myndie Snake would find them and drip venom upon them , poisoning the water and burning them where they hid . |
| 24 | Clause 25 allows employees to challenge the terms and conditions of a collective agreement the employer applies to them where the agreement appears to contravene the principles of equal treatment . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not surprised to see them where they are . |
| 26 | In a welcome change of emphasis , a senior official of the Bank of England suggested on June lst that banks explore ways of shifting property assets into more enthusiastic hands , securitising them where possible . |
| 27 | He called together all the chief priests and scribes … and enquired of them where the Christ was to be born . |
| 28 | To take out cover , farmers should call their group secretaries and inform them where and when the sale takes place , the number of pen cards needed , together with the chosen cover period , and whether insurance is required for all animals , or just those selling above a set price . |
| 29 | Then he seized the bag of cookies , and on his way back indoors , threw them where he considered they belonged , in the trash can with the rest of the garbage . |
| 30 | Look for them where fairly large , heavy objects are resting on the soil , for example , under large stones , a garden roller or a log . |