Example sentences of "' [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some sympathetic mothers covered it with bandages and bulging dressings and I was driven to the doctors ' where I was given a more impressive bandage , leaving my finger looking the size of a small banana . |
| 2 | Oh he said I said it 's six weeks ' that she 's been here . |
| 3 | But , erm all that time I was running the young wives ' and we used to hold a stall in the garden , at the garden party at the church , and w when you took your takings in , you know th the treasurer would say you know , who are you , you know and I used to say young wives ' and then one day I said well , you know we 're no longer young wives , you know we were getting old and I decided there and then I 'd had enough of young wives ' , you know and er , er because I , I said , I , I was secretary and I 'll close it down it , it erm the young wives ' closed down and er er it , it had actually closed down and this lady was marvellous this secretary of the Guild , who would kno known mother and she was a councillor , she come dashing down , you know you , you , th the young wives ' has closed and you know you 've got excuse . |
| 4 | ' and she began to weep again . |
| 5 | Sometimes Bernard would make his wife leave the room , telling her , ‘ This is boys ’ business ' and she would meekly obey . |
| 6 | No I did it to Marks ' then blamed it on Cherubs and Cherub come over and did it to Marks ' and I admitted to it , or so or |
| 7 | When the country was united under one king in about 3100 BC , beginning the First Dynasty , the name of the king was preceded by the title " Horus ' and he was thought to be " the living Horus ' and therefore a god on earth , From the Fourth Dynasty he added the title " Son of Re " to his names . |
| 8 | When we held activities at the school , the girls would always opt for the domestic tasks ' and it was difficult to persuade them to take on some other responsibility . |
| 9 | " Geometry " itself does not encompass such a clearly unitary idea as " number " or " measures ' and it is consequently more difficult to represent in a linked set of the main procedural aspects . |
| 10 | Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ? |
| 11 | Presumably the answer will be " yes ' if we accept the premise of the question . |
| 12 | Obviously is neither a scalar nor the component of a four-vector : if it were the first it would remain constant under the Lorentz transformation to S ' if it were the second the change would be linear in γ . |
| 13 | That 's Alices ' cos it was . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd like to , ’ said Zach , ' but I never go to church so it 'd be a bit strange if I sing in it , wo n't it , me not even being a Christian . ‘ |
| 15 | He believed that induced abortion was an outrage against women 's health when performed in inadequate conditions ' but he did not believe that it should be made legal . |
| 16 | ‘ Talking of smokescreens , Victor — ‘ ' But he just blows a mouthful at me and jabs the end of his cigar into the fug . |
| 17 | In earlier decades — say , from the 1950s to the 1970s — most but not all college students were secondary school-leavers — now called " traditional students ' because they arrive at college via the traditional route from school . |
| 18 | I am very sensitive to my hon. Friend 's reference to Warren Hastings ' because it was Edmund Burke , a kinsman of mine , who prosecuted him over that length of time . |
| 19 | Vectors that I can represent as arrows on a sheet of paper will be two dimensional , that is to say they will be combinations of just two independent basic vectors ( 1 and 2 in my example , or " across " and " up " in words ; I do not need further vectors " down " and " backwards ' since I can regard these as " up " and " across ' with negative coefficients . |
| 20 | Most prisoners are badly tortured and forced to sign unread confessions ' before they are passed to the state prison . |
| 21 | Then William shrugged and said , ' 'Cos it 's interesting , that 's all , ’ and picked up his fork again . |
| 22 | A large number of lower attainers treat decimals as whole numbers , a strategy that " works ' when they are written to the same number of decimal places . |
| 23 | and we are telling the people that they 've got the power to change it , keep telling the switchboard operators , cos ' when you press zero that actually do answer very quickly |
| 24 | Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn . |
| 25 | June Roberts said she 'd gone out in the car , saying nothing except that she 'd be back in time for cocktails at the Clarkes ' as she had promised , a business thing for Samuel . |