Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think Chelsea offers me the greater chance of winning something than if I 'd stayed at Carrow Road . |
| 2 | She added apologetically , ‘ Sophie thinks I 'm too romantic , and I suppose I am , but I must admit I 'd love to be protected . ’ |
| 3 | I said , ‘ Harvey thinks I am employed by Midwinter to check up on him ? ’ |
| 4 | She desperately needs security not love and this is what Mitch offers her and the young men whom she likes so much do not . |
| 5 | Before leaving Butterworth v. Kingsway Motors it should be noted that if the same facts ( i.e. involving a motor vehicle ) were to occur again today , the result would be different because of the Hire Purchase Act 1964 , Part III ( see paragraph 5–40 above ) . |
| 6 | ALEX Ferguson thinks he has problems juggling Manchester United 's ‘ foreign legion ’ for Europe . |
| 7 | But Ferguson insists it is not too late for United to get back in the hunt . |
| 8 | I could be wrong , and if Kelly plays I sincerely hope he has a good game for if he does n't he may not recover from it , as he will always be known for ‘ screwing it when the Republic needed a win in Windsor ’ . |
| 9 | When they were swanning around looking pretty , our families were working their fingers to the bone for virtually nothing and now Miss High-and-Mighty thinks we should admire them . |
| 10 | Feynman offers us a simple way to see that this happens . |
| 11 | Hawking thinks it can go either way but we will never know . |
| 12 | Constituency secretary Rita Taylor insists it is otherwise . |
| 13 | September ICI wins Us Environmental Protection Agency Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award for the commercial introduction of ‘ Klea ’ 32 . |
| 14 | Russells Hall pupils ' comments were along the lines of ‘ Ca n't they come back this afternoon ? ’ but also included : ‘ Dipak can draw well ’ and ‘ Marcelle thinks I 'm a really good writer . ’ |
| 15 | Karajan ( DG ) has often been taken to task from making an adagio meal of Shostakovich 's andante here , but Flor turns it into a snail 's banquet ( beautiful Concertgebouw wind playing notwithstanding ) . |
| 16 | But Harwell insists it was only a minor leak and the public was n't in danger . |
| 17 | Mick thought : ‘ So Matt thinks he 's going to be an MP . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know what Sarah thinks she 's up to . ’ |
| 19 | We shall continue to do that until Mr. MacSharry understands it . |
| 20 | Soon after this we learn that Doyle thinks he has sold his rights by serving the system as a teacher for ‘ a large wheen of pennies ’ : ‘ He was an article that was corrupt … corruptio optimi pessima … ’ . |
| 21 | Michel thinks she will be in for a bad time when she realizes it . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm going to convert the minute Bernard thinks I 'm serious enough . |
| 23 | The band 's press coverage has generally been excellent and Houghton thinks it is a consequence of the group 's organised , professional outlook . |
| 24 | Mick Houghton thinks it was a mistake to line up Wells with the band . |
| 25 | Every day the Canyon humbles us with some new wonder : a 2,000ft sheer wall of red limestone , a golden eagle soaring down to the river to fish , a natural rock amphitheatre which would comfortably accommodate a full orchestra and 20,000 people . |
| 26 | Mr Sulzberger thinks he has the answer . |
| 27 | Thus the term irony is used in something approaching its usual acceptance when Brooks associates it with Yeats 's appeal to the Greek sages in ‘ Sailing to That Yeats should speak of the ‘ artifice of eternity ’ evidently undermines in a sense the appearance of passion and sincerity with which he invokes the Greek sages , and thus can be said to bring about a kind of ironic reconciliation between his aspiration of a life free from Nature , and his rational awareness of his human limitations ( Brooks 1949 : 173 ) . |
| 28 | I know Cora-Beth wants us to get engaged and now Madeleine 's turned me down , she 'll expect me to propose . |
| 29 | ‘ You heard how Bathsheba loves me and expects me to visit her tonight . |
| 30 | Do you realise that , when Lisa has it right |