Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd be very interested to know er in terms of U turns which I 'll come back to , how he 's going to deal with the next item on the agenda er , whereby the Liberal Democrats have been consistent about their policy in general with a lot of obstruction and being caused problems and how Mr will agree in this chamber to actually close some people 's homes , old people 's homes |
| 2 | I suppose English critics will always work on the old lines , and try to get behind the book to quiz the author … instead of seeing that he is almost irresponsible , that it is the result of haphazard circumstances , and that the writer rubs his eyes and wonders how this and that got into his pages as much as the reviewer does . |
| 3 | If the vicar thinks it does he is mistaken . |
| 4 | No , but every whenever his chest goes he 's |
| 5 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 6 | and the story goes he was stuck within minutes . |
| 7 | So he fought with him and and took his stick from him and gave him a whack on the head and he dropped , and the story goes he says we 'll go home now lads . |
| 8 | The story goes there 's a little carved head which is nailed by the ears to the door and everyone here says that 's Oliver Cromwell . ’ |
| 9 | And the Board thinks there 's a reasonable subsidy to offer to its elderly residents . |
| 10 | Keith 's mum thinks he 's more like darts player Eric Bristow . |
| 11 | I sit there with a pair of tweezers going my mum thinks you 're so fussy , and I 'm like |
| 12 | My mum thinks I 'm having a great time , as I tell her that I am but it 's a lie , and it has n't got any better . |
| 13 | ‘ My mum thinks it 's OK too and Lol is great . |
| 14 | Hewlett-Packard Co 's Canadian Panacom Division thinks it 's got some hot new X-terminal software for Sun , IBM and SCO Open Desktop platforms that will let you run applications from the local client rather than the host . |
| 15 | Amphetamine produces its effects by causing certain neurons to release more of the neurotransmitter , dopamine — one of the many chemicals used in the brain to transmit signals from one cell to another — suggesting that schizophrenics either produced too much , or were too sensitive to the actions of the transmitter . |
| 16 | Halliwell drives me almost daily , and occasionally my daughter-in-law . |
| 17 | Expressing his absolute contempt of bands who rely on ambient , effect-heavy swirling guitar sounds , Bernard insists his own playing will never take a back seat musically . |
| 18 | Now his plea involves him in sharing their sentence with them . |
| 19 | If it 's been agreed that the treasurer spends £300 on publicity with £100 each for posters , leaflets and newspaper advertisements , he should be allowed the latitude to spend £150 on newspaper ads and £150 on leaflets if the publicity chairman thinks it necessary , and perhaps nothing on posters . |
| 20 | In fact , pursuant to r 6.80 , no resolutions can be taken at the meeting of creditors other than : ( i ) a resolution to appoint a named insolvency practitioner to be trustee or two or more insolvency practitioners as joint trustees ; ( ii ) a resolution to establish a creditors ' committee ; ( iii ) ( unless a creditors ' committee has been established ) a resolution specifying the terms of the trustee 's remuneration or to defer consideration of that matter ; ( iv ) if two or more trustees are appointed , a resolution specifying whether acts are to be done by both or all of them , or by only one ; ( v ) a resolution adjourning the meeting for not more than three weeks ; and ( vi ) any other resolutions which the chairman thinks it right to allow for special reasons . |
| 21 | This is particularly true of the company puff wanted because the chairman thinks he should run an advertisement which says no more than " we are jolly good fellows " . |
| 22 | As well as acting as presenter of the various scenes Richard Baker displays his talent as a pianist , singer , and even for one moment as a dancer ! |
| 23 | In courtship the male turns his head and points at this beautiful feather with his beak . |
| 24 | ‘ I think Chelsea offers me the greater chance of winning something than if I 'd stayed at Carrow Road . |
| 25 | Will signs himself off as " ye Miner . " |
| 26 | The use of titles encourages you to see individuals as set firmly into their social slots . |
| 27 | Mr R. Melbourne of Loughborough wins our first £25 award by asking you for a list of those clubs who have won the old First Division title and also played in the Fourth Division . |
| 28 | She added apologetically , ‘ Sophie thinks I 'm too romantic , and I suppose I am , but I must admit I 'd love to be protected . ’ |
| 29 | DEC UNLEASHES ITS BET-THE-COMPANY ALPHA BLITZ |
| 30 | Galerie Pels-Leusden turns its attention to painting by the mentally ill with an exhibition of large-format works in coloured pencil by Friedrich Schroder-Sonnenstern . |