Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | Ideas about not ‘ burdening others ’ with personal problems , that discussing them denotes some kind of ‘ personal weakness ’ , are common within the older generations , especially when the prospective counsellee has a strong sense of personal dignity and pride . |
| 3 | Me thinks another pilgrim is trying to make a buck . |
| 4 | For ahead of them lies several more hours of hard study and concentration , either at home or at night school . |
| 5 | And you know with huskies , if one of them drops dead , the rest of them eat him . |
| 6 | Indeed the supply of chaplains to educational establishments outside of our schools/colleges and their role within them needs careful appraisal . |
| 7 | Well after you discharged the ship cos all the blood was there and erm they used to have to wash them holds all out then and this bacon was put on open lorries and taken to London , put in the refrigerator . |
| 8 | This is why the tone of his communications with me has that slightly patronizing and protective edge . |
| 9 | Listen to what it says in John chapter five Truly , truly I say unto you , this is Jesus speaking he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and does not come into judgement but has passed out of death into life . |
| 10 | One of the teacups has been chopped into little pieces but the other still has some water inside , which to me looks redder than it should . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've 'ad me bath , ’ she said , ‘ d' you like me looks better now , mister ? ’ |
| 12 | Shouting at cats or hitting them has little effect . |
| 13 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 14 | Not all worlds are the same , and life upon them has strange effects upon the body . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ No , it were n't an interositor , them has triangular screens and positronic wave cross-band modulators which operate on the principle of ionized beta photons bombarding the nucleus of an alpha particle . |
| 16 | The evidence of the available texts and manuscripts is against such an emendation , however , since none of them has such a reading ; and it seems more likely that Ibn Hajar means no more than that Molla Fenari was in his twenties when he made the journey to Egypt . |
| 17 | Each of them has many adherents in the discipline , and at first sight it looks as if the approaches are in direct competition . |
| 18 | And so black psychologists ’ concentration in them has positive as well as negative implications . |
| 19 | All three diabetic patients had a satisfactory outcome despite the fact that one of them has severe autonomic neuropathy . |
| 20 | The people who work with Ingrid are carefully chosen , not for their formal training ( apart from Deirdre , none of them has any ) but for their eye . |
| 21 | Needless to say , with such a busy schedule none of them has any time for girlfriends . |
| 22 | None of them has any connections here , not really ; they 're all bachelors ; at least , in a way . |
| 23 | The force between them has some correspondence with Newton 's finding that the gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them . |
| 24 | The linguistic and other significatory structures of psychological discourse are rare objects of psychological investigation , so simply focusing on them has some critical impact . |
| 25 | You tell me lies all the time ! |
| 26 | The list shows four predefined styles , but none of them looks enticing , so we 'll define one of our own for a heading . |
| 27 | Although chantries were not established everywhere , the recording of the priests who served them looks erratic , many being ignored , although the expression ‘ singing at ’ in some Norfolk parishes probably denotes one whose days were occupied saying masses and other prayers for the repose of the souls of the founders . |
| 28 | As it stands , the force of economic interests against them looks irresistible . |
| 29 | The distinction you need to practise could also be between two sounds where both or one of them causes real difficulty in pronunciation as well as being contrastive . |
| 30 | Simply handling them causes 1 dose to be absorbed through the skin , counting them ( or similarly continuously handling them ) causes 1 dose per Turn to be absorbed . |