Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom . |
| 2 | This baffled the doctors still further and they concluded that ‘ Social attitudes are decidedly curious on the other side of the Atlantic : prohibition is a state institution but people drink their fill behind closed shutters ; everyone prides himself on his virtue but women wear pessaries against conception . ’ |
| 3 | Testimony to this comes from the common agreement of many of the world 's proverbs : ‘ Who knows nothing doubts nothing ’ ( French ) , ‘ The wise are prone to doubt ’ ( Greek ) , or ‘ With great doubts come great understanding ; with little doubts come little understanding ’ ( Chinese ) . |
| 4 | One of them turns her tired beam on us . |
| 5 | Half blind with tears , I fly past Lucky who growls , everyone HATES me . |
| 6 | ‘ It does if everyone hates him , does n't it ? ’ |
| 7 | There 's a band called Moby Dick and everyone hates them ‘ cost they sound like a fucked up version of Creedence . |
| 8 | Everyone hates them . |
| 9 | Dad everyone hates you . |
| 10 | ‘ Nothing irritates me more than righteous indignation , ’ he said lightly . |
| 11 | Nothing forbids me to dramatize the crisis by saying that the individual has found a new sense of his dignity in the knowledge that he is wholly free to choose , with the sole responsibility for his choice . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 13 | Tilda did n't seem to , but no-one understands what she thinks except Martha . " |
| 14 | We do n't get a say ; which is just as well because here in the region , it seems no-one understands it . |
| 15 | Theatre is about communication — and if no-one understands it , then we 've failed . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Theatre is about communication — and if no-one understands it , then we 've failed . ’ |
| 17 | Everyone agrees it was the most monstrous wave that had ever appeared on the North Shore . |
| 18 | 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 … |
| 19 | Nothing bugs me , by anything at all , anything bugging me . |
| 20 | Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach . |
| 21 | ‘ Part of me hates him , ’ he admitted , ‘ and the other part of me hates myself for feeling jealous of such a fantastic guy . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Part of me hates him , ’ he admitted , ‘ and the other part of me hates myself for feeling jealous of such a fantastic guy . ’ |
| 23 | Sanctions on employers are weak because almost everyone fiddles his papers . |
| 24 | As the barges plough the blue waters nothing slows their stately progress , no wind fills their sails , no hand guides their tiller . |
| 25 | It is the responsibility of the clinical teacher to ensure that everyone understands her role and the important part she plays in nurse education . |
| 26 | Everyone understands what is to be done . |
| 27 | I can say " This is a cherry " and everyone understands what I mean , but I can not very well say " This is an offspring " without committing a grammatical impropriety , except perhaps as a contextually forgivable elipsis when it is already clear whose offspring is being talked about . |
| 28 | 3 Everyone understands what is going on . |
| 29 | Not everyone understands it is HC which makes people behave strangely . |
| 30 | Jargon is an effective form of shorthand , provided everyone understands it . |