Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competition between old males with harems and younger ones without them involves co-operation between males on both sides . |
| 2 | One of them involves the observation of events as they actually occur , and the other involves experimentation which causes events to take place . |
| 3 | Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom . |
| 4 | The employees would prefer profits to be lower if maximising them involves plant closures or the introduction of job-destroying technology . |
| 5 | Poems order experience and share it ; understanding them and writing them involves an act of creativity , and in both activities there is a kind of joy involved when the order of words , or insight into the effect of that order , corresponds with the way things are . |
| 6 | One of them turns her tired beam on us . |
| 7 | When two parts of the mouth come fairly close together , so that the air forced between them produces friction , the manner of articulation is referred to as fricative . |
| 8 | There is nothing wrong with the service and tourism sectors , but overreliance on them produces an economy just as vulnerable to recession as previous versions built around heavy manufacturing industry . |
| 9 | Len looks at me andmutters , ‘ What 's he on about ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Neither of them fits the picture of a proper mother . ’ |
| 11 | When he goes inside , he sees the local grocer with a rather oily expression on his face bustling up to offer him one shiny little book containing a liturgy which neither of them understands , and one shabby little book containing corrupt texts of a number of religious lyrics , mostly bad , and in very small print . |
| 12 | So water for me represents the ordinariness of life which Jesus can take and make very special . |
| 13 | ‘ Would you really , a man of your enormous wealth , sue someone like me for a sum that to you is little more than pocket-money , but to me represents my very livelihood ? |
| 14 | First to tell me wins a signed photo of Jon Newsome : - ) |
| 15 | ‘ One of them plays the piano most beautifully . |
| 16 | The players become cold and indifferent when they do not follow the soloist directly ; the stick that directs them humiliates them , takes away their natural wish to excel … |
| 17 | ‘ One ca n't give cast-iron guarantees , just as you ca n't give me guarantees about my safety if I was to go to Birmingham , ’ Mr Thomas replied . |
| 18 | The granaries were completed and provided with an imposing portico fronting the street ; an imperial dedication jointly to Septimius Severus , Caracalla and Geta from one of them refers to the construction by an unknown legionary vexillation during the governorship of Alfenus Senecio . |
| 19 | Music to thee doth howl . |
| 20 | Okay , suppose Come Up And See Me goes in the charts and they ring you up and say , ‘ Steve , how do you fancy going on Top Of The Pops ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's just one of those dreams the urban yuppy like me goes in for , ’ he said . |
| 22 | One of them frisks a large steel ashtray and hands a roach to another . |
| 23 | ‘ Part of me hates him , ’ he admitted , ‘ and the other part of me hates myself for feeling jealous of such a fantastic guy . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Part of me hates him , ’ he admitted , ‘ and the other part of me hates myself for feeling jealous of such a fantastic guy . ’ |
| 25 | We asked James what he thought about his new job : ‘ Erm … like … you know … this gorgeous girlie was buying me drinks all night … like … you know how it gets … right ! … yeah … well … |
| 26 | Though he spoke of ‘ forms ’ as the explanatory factors in things , his conception of them differs , as we saw , from that of the Aristotelians . |
| 27 | At a meeting with the ASEAN Foreign Ministers in Indonesia on July 27 Baker attempted to allay their fears , informing them that the US goals in Cambodia remained the same and that " our approach towards achieving them differs only very slightly " . |
| 28 | It often breaks her great big heart when she to me doth say , |
| 29 | And while with me doth dwell this wearied ghost , |
| 30 | If they knew I was under that sort of pressure , they 'd stop giving me rides altogether . |