Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after his appointment he went to the north to meet representatives of the non-Burman races , and in effect asked them to state their own terms for participation in a Union of Burma . |
| 2 | Negotiations took place with the orthopaedic department to enable me to refer my own patients . |
| 3 | ‘ You kids think you know it all , ’ a woman shouted from the front of the now thoroughly stirred-up audience . |
| 4 | One of our violinists left us to start his own violin school , and also a flying school . |
| 5 | From large carpet areas to those tricky areas which you may have thought impossible to get really clean — the Steamatic enables you to clean them all with the minimum of fuss . |
| 6 | One depicts Mary 's first husband , Francis II , three times rushing to welcome her in heaven , and three times finding that he can only embrace a headless body , so that he curses his people ; whereupon the poet exhorts them to forget their own troubles , and unite to destroy England and send its queen to a dreadful death . |
| 7 | As her eyes closed she heard her own swift intake of breath . |
| 8 | No , but it was a loan to me and I said to my dad he was loaning it me and I said to him erm I pay you back and then when I went to pick the cheque up er he says er well me mum says he giving you that you know he says what we 're gon na do is when , when they write the will out you 'll get that much less than the others , I says well as long as it ai n't gon na cause any problems |
| 9 | ‘ Mr Benedict asked me to give you this , miss , quiet like . ’ |
| 10 | Hobson 's work is mainly remembered because Lenin used it to construct his own , quite distinct , theory of imperialism . |
| 11 | IBM says we got it all wrong last week about the delivery date of the first of its RS/6000 multi-processors being in July . |
| 12 | A former senior minister who has been through many spending rounds says we take them all much too seriously , they are merely a mating ritual , he says , adding , and a barren one at that , no offspring . |
| 13 | ADAM & EVE allows you to create your own ‘ user database ’ of collocations for texts and then generate exercises on these . |
| 14 | He obtained recognition for his art as ‘ a liberal art like those of painting , architecture and sculpture ’ , and this portrait shows him wearing his own specially embroidered uniform , and holding a cartoon for an embroidery design . |
| 15 | Rachaela allowed her to choose her own colours . |
| 16 | But spreading the work out though actually extended the administration costs and not giving start and finish times that were fairly tight , so the people doing the work allowed them to make their own judgments on when it was going to be done . |
| 17 | And erm when Glenys is back on the scene get her to level it all out for you . |
| 18 | Hospital nurses opposing a plan to make them wear their own clothes for work have put off a decision to take action in protest . |
| 19 | It may take me a little longer but … ’ he smiled , and his confidence made her dislike him more than ever , ‘ I promise you I shall get there in the end . ’ |
| 20 | Twice they 've been with a cart , and Miss Theda let them take it all without a word said ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Stefano reckons he sacrificed his own life for his daughter 's career but he was only a waiter and a boxer and stuntman before that . |
| 22 | Nowhere on either record does it say what these piano reductions are — the composer 's or another hand ? |
| 23 | But erm obviously what Gwen said I think we all , we all back up . |
| 24 | And they said , Well okay I can tell you right now you 've , how many appointments have you told me this week , this is the guy back at camp . |
| 25 | As soon as they were alone , he said awkwardly , ‘ Look , old chap , you 've every right to tell me to mind my own business , but unless I 've made two and two equal five , then I think as your friend I ought to speak up . |
| 26 | The creak of a pump-handle and the answering gush of water made him feel his own thirst and taste his tongue 's rancid dryness . |
| 27 | Arthur says I scratch them any way |
| 28 | Clarifying the details of AT&T Co 's Personal Video System Model 70 Windows-based teleconferencing system ( CI No 2,034 ) , the system transmits information over standard digital phone lines using the Px64 ’ international video standard at a rate of 10 to 15 frames per second , and the $7,000 price requires you to bring your own computer ; the control unit , to be available in the US in the fourth quarter of this year for between $60,000 and $200,000 will enable up to 24 users to be linked in a video conference . |
| 29 | The closest they came was in the mid-Eighties when their group , Trash , Flash And Money — ‘ straight down-the-line uninteresting Billy Idol rock music ’ — was signed to a development deal by Capitol records in America ( in a development deal they give you some money while they decide whether you are any cop after all ) . |
| 30 | And what things did he want them both to forget ? |