Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there 's one thing that disgusts me it 's cold porridge . |
| 2 | Party leaders in many republics have been openly demanding one : it seems only a matter of time before the president offers them what they are asking for . |
| 3 | He accuses Labour of offering no alternative , no vision ; yet he offers nothing himself , just one predictable analysis after another . |
| 4 | With Mr Merchant 's assistance Stewart opens up the box of chocolates and offers me one with the hand that is n't attached to a pulley and the ceiling . |
| 5 | Of course , there may be considerations arising from the recruitment area which have a bearing on how computerization should be tackled in the other areas , but there is no doubt that a consistent overall strategy can be developed which incorporates all the major aspects of personnel administration and integrates them one with another . |
| 6 | Now , the mere sight of the cake crumbs floating on the tea has no particular effect on him , but suddenly when he actually tastes them he gets a strange feeling of excitement , a feeling almost of elation . |
| 7 | ‘ This ABS thing fascinates me You just ca n't get it to skid , can you ? |
| 8 | A moment later the wizard was standing over him , shouting , ‘ Tell it that if it singes me I 'll let the sword go ! |
| 9 | But now women are meant to go along on an even keel and when something upsets them they think tha e , I should n't be able to express this any more , so I 'll go to the G P and he 'll give me something and then the emotions will go away , but unfortunately they do n't go away , they just go wandering , they 'll come back again at another point . |
| 10 | And when Pickerings supplies them its reputation appears to be flawless . |
| 11 | I am preparing papers for the relinquishment of the claim , but once she signs them she will be literally on the streets and penniless . |
| 12 | She has played Mozart on stage and in her new film Orlando plays someone who starts off as a man in Elizabethan times and ends up as a woman in the present . |
| 13 | " Shakespeare " denotes someone who might have had any number of different characteristics . |
| 14 | yeah , but Gary needs them you , you need the green one and Gary needs both so |
| 15 | She 's adores them I do n't ha , I do n't know if this is normal for a child this age to eat Polos , but |
| 16 | ‘ So now th'knows all , and owes me summat in return . ’ |
| 17 | cos she just took them off and then and now now she owes me something posh . |
| 18 | Ca n't remember whether I owe Madge a letter or she owes me one . |
| 19 | ‘ The course owes me nothing , ’ he said . |
| 20 | In the next house you see I shall have to have different seating , they , they , I 'm going to , I 'm going to get somewhere smaller , so that three piece suite , it owes me nothing it only cost me what seven hundred pounds |
| 21 | But it owes me nothing now . |
| 22 | He said I do n't know what the car owes me he said can you come back tomorrow about half past ten ? |
| 23 | At least Jeremy Seabrook 's cut-out cardboard teenage figures of abject horror and pity know , as they sit sniffing glue and planning how to knock off a video recorder , that the world owes them something , that they have a right to the earth , an attitude at least as subversive as the endurance " that is the result of not being ever given very much . |
| 24 | His views are taken to task by Lancelot , the hero of Kingsley 's Yeast ( 1848 ) : ‘ It may suit the Mr Lyles of this age … to make the people constantly and visibly comprehend that property is their protector and their friend , but I question whether it will suit the people themselves , unless they can make property understand that it owes them something more definite than protection . ’ |
| 25 | And really he 's got to , I mean , you know , alright with work wise I mean he 's got to take even if , I mean the kids these days , I mean , even at Neil 's age , I mean you know , I 've come the conclusion now these kids they think the world owes them something ! |
| 26 | Whether they have too much or what they have but , I mean they 're just they just think everybody owes them something , and it 's like Neil , I mean , to me I mean I ca n't see why he ca n't get off his backside and go and work in a supermarket but it 's not the job they want , the same answer I said |
| 27 | It is not , I believe , a matter of coincidence , that the only current British World Champion is Jamie Delgado , who won the 14-and-under title in Florida last year and owes nothing whatever to the LTA or its training and development programme . |
| 28 | Well there 's only Fred has them you see cos I do n't like them so I only buy medium size tins to start off with . |
| 29 | Until he beats me he will always be in my shadow . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It amazes me he should now want to kill the goose that has laid him the golden egg . |