Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , although the Immigration Rules ( which fall into the second category ) have statutory backing , there is considerable doubt about the extent to which departure from them renders decisions liable to be quashed . |
| 2 | I says bollocks John . |
| 3 | ‘ I likes pigs and pigs is useful . ’ |
| 4 | 'E said 'e wants loads o' babies . |
| 5 | After all , 'e chooses ti sit wi' 'er , when there 's all t'men for 'im ti sit and talk ti . ’ |
| 6 | And she goes honours and I go we well done and she goes |
| 7 | So , I hope she goes places , I really do because young members and young trade unionists in this union are gon na get this union 's support so , go back to your branches and tell everybody that . |
| 8 | And this man goes , right love , and he takes her in an alley way and she goes thanks , and like , he goes come on then , let's do it now . |
| 9 | She 's terrified of children , she hates strangers and anything electrical — especially the washing machine , and the Hoover . |
| 10 | I 'll go to Molly Stein — no , not to her , she hates men , she 'd say she told me so . |
| 11 | She hates parks ; it takes half an hour to get there from the flats and then the kids are put inside one lot of railings like some kind of animals and you walk up and down inside another lot and watch them . |
| 12 | She encourages customers to play around with samples so they feel they are helping to design their own rooms . |
| 13 | If the criterion of a good comedian is whether or not he or she confronts prejudices rather than strokes them , Ben Elton looks as impressive as ever . |
| 14 | Through the rest of the poem she offers examples of marriages in which a promising husband proves neglectful or vicious . |
| 15 | Repeatedly in her work she offers examples of marriages which could bring a woman some kind of satisfaction . |
| 16 | As the minutes edge towards 8.30 she receives signals from all the technical stations . |
| 17 | She thinks five-year-olds are grubs that have n't yet hatched out . ’ |
| 18 | The youth may want to buy a motor bike , but his mother wants him to purchase an old car because she thinks bikes are dangerous and will get him into bad company . |
| 19 | She has definite ideas on how she thinks things should be organised , and sometimes she is right . |
| 20 | She thinks women are traditionally and unfairly given children to paint , because they seem able to ‘ deal ’ with them : ‘ they think they 'll be more ‘ at home with a woman ’ . ’ |
| 21 | And that erm she thinks tutors do n't converse enough er to find out what 's going on . |
| 22 | Her abdomen is swollen into a white heaving sausage , I 2 centimetres long , from which she produces eggs at the almost unbelievable rate of 30,000 a day . |
| 23 | During the summer , when there are plenty of food plants in leaf , she produces eggs that , without any attention from a male , are already fertile . |
| 24 | She produces figures of those who are two months or more behind in their mortgage repayments . |
| 25 | She wins hearts everywhere she goes , and , with a quick aside , puts everyone instantly and skilfully at their ease . |
| 26 | Ah she 's Lyn she 's er got it all wrong I think , she thinks she wins men 's affections like by sleeping with them all . |
| 27 | She 's cheeky to the other mums , she ignores you when you tell her to stop doing something , she upsets pots of paint and is generally mischievous . |
| 28 | because she understands litres and millilitres , and she understands kilograms and grams , and I still think , I suppose in pounds |
| 29 | because she understands litres and millilitres , and she understands kilograms and grams , and I still think , I suppose in pounds |
| 30 | Table 7.2 shows that there is an association between the level of a housewife 's identification with the housewife role and the degree to which she specifies standards and routines for housework performance . |