Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The employees would prefer profits to be lower if maximising them involves plant closures or the introduction of job-destroying technology . |
| 2 | Competition between old males with harems and younger ones without them involves co-operation between males on both sides . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | One of them needs Pond 's to look after it . |
| 5 | It has proved convenient for Conservatives and Labour parties and will probably continue to be so as long as one of them holds office . |
| 6 | One of them has King Tut on it , Isis on another and bees all over one … ’ |
| 7 | What will happen to all those projects if none of them has access to the channel tunnel and to the rapid movement of freight and passengers around the London area ? |
| 8 | I goes mum I 've heard it all before ! |
| 9 | I goes c'mere to your auntie Verena you 're giving wee Evita a showing up . |
| 10 | He completed his twenty-nineth victory of his career in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim . |
| 11 | The provisions of the 1990 National Health Service and Community Care Act make the following statutory requirements of case managers : ‘ Where it appears to a local authority that any person for whom they may provide or arrange for the provision of community care services may be in need of any such services , the authority ( a ) shall carry out an assessment of his needs for those services and ( b ) having regard to the results of that assessment , shall then decide whether his needs call for the provision by them of any such services . ’ |
| 12 | That 's what I said , well I says life can be a bitch I says . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm gonny cut thon Kyle and dae the rest o' thaim and aw' , and I says nixt Seturday at Adelphi , thon wey at the back to the auld bridge at the green . ’ |
| 14 | I gets hold of her arm … |
| 15 | ‘ Jute , Tabitha , Captain , ’ he intoned , as his cyclops lens scanned and recorded her . |
| 16 | Everyone sprang to their feet but the cardinal 's heralds called for silence and he sent his revels master , Henry Guildford , to see what was going on . |
| 17 | I likes spirit ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I likes drawin' . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We can no more see to the bottom of the next few hours , than we can see to the bottom of this river what I catches hold of . |
| 20 | As what you have told me answers mine . |
| 21 | The scroll they have with them allows entrance to that Tower , and is the only way out of this room . |
| 22 | Yer know 'ow 'e loves boxin' . |
| 23 | I only 'ope 'e finds time ter marry this 'un , whoever she is . ’ |
| 24 | Earlier , the Buddha had said , ‘ He who sees dhamma sees me , he who sees me sees dhamma . ’ |
| 25 | Income for them includes taxation , which provides no measure of the willingness of the community to pay . |
| 26 | But there are two further objections that might be raised against this theory : one of them concerns compresence , the other completeness . |
| 27 | If anyone else lives there they 'll know what I mean ) My intense dislike for them grows day by day , just like my overdraught . |
| 28 | She goes Mum , come and sit here , she goes , piss off ! like that and the mother goes you talking to me ? |
| 29 | She goes window-shopping up Oxford Street , then meets her cronies in that dreadful French Pub in Soho . ’ |
| 30 | She goes jam tart |