Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together they plot to undermine and ruin their errant spouses by hitting them where it hurts corporate types the hardest : their egos and bank balances . |
| 2 | Over the next 12 months , it will buy another 1.89% in the open market , and gets an option on a further 4% for another $150m from Olivetti 's shareholders ' syndicate by June 1994 ; that adds up to 9.92% , which if it paid current prices for the shares it buys in the market would represent a total investment of about $330m . |
| 3 | If the proxy was signed by the proxyholder himself , he can not vote in favour of any remuneration being paid to himself unless he produced written authorisation from his principal showing that he was entitled to sign the proxy . |
| 4 | Sensing , or knowing , that my days in my native land were numbered , he asked me if I needed foreign currency . |
| 5 | But like , Mr really really bad like maths teacher , he goes erm he goes to , she goes to him the other day oh you 're only picking on me cos I got ginger hair ! |
| 6 | Who , who if they 've cold feet lies awake , till they warm up ? |
| 7 | Such a gene could pay for itself if it motivated little girls to in fact compete with their brothers for what their brothers might otherwise er get uncontested . |
| 8 | That 's what they were doing , and then if you made too much slate this month , the following month they 'd drop your bonus down , so as to see as to keep you on the same level , so you could n't go any higher if you if you had good slate and worked your guts out . |
| 9 | And people think more of you if you have nice things — as if you 'd once had a ‘ beautiful home ’ , ’ she gave the words a slightly scornful emphasis that made Ianthe feel uncomfortable . |
| 10 | The Fund may be able to help you if you have financial problems . |
| 11 | Her cleaning is admirable , but she will not undertake washing ( the machine will be available to you provided you take proper precautions ) or cooking . |
| 12 | If they said to us we 're not going to insure you because you have black people staying people staying it would be illegal but because it 's poor people they can dictate to us . |
| 13 | One minor point you heard the give evidence , you know it 's a issue between you whether you shouted armed police or you did n't . |
| 14 | In addition the following discounts are available to you when you use British Airways and Hertz joint Fly Drive programmes : |
| 15 | Yeah , you 've got one where you get bass reflex |
| 16 | Why has the image of farming gone from one where the farmer was respected as the provider of food for the nation to one where he gets enormous subsidies to produce food mountains and is a burden on the taxpayer ? |
| 17 | Presumably it 's also a lot to do with isolation , a lot to do with the fact that there was no one to talk to about the sexual experiences you were having and the only surrounding attitude was one of , ‘ This is something which should n't happen ’ , whereas the situation when I had my first sexual experience was one where I knew other people who were gay whom I could talk to . |
| 18 | Right , okay so if we put this one If we put hydrochloric acid and caustic soda together , they 'd start reacting and after a while it would all be finished . |
| 19 | In the end , will I be worth something if I pay great attention to all that you tell me ? " |
| 20 | Now , normally in this programme when we talk about womens ' magazines , people are inveighing against them because they carry various advertisements that they find offensive or exploitative , but are women 's magazines actually erm performing quite a useful job by filling in the gaps that that schools and parents are are failing to address ? |
| 21 | ‘ My position was one of timid and humble listener … ’ said the Spanish painter Remedios Varo , speaking for many of her Surrealist sisters , ‘ I was together with them because I felt certain affinity ’ . |
| 22 | There are advantages in transferring the investments to your wife altogether so that the income arises to her if she has spare allowances , or if you are in the age allowance trap and she is not . |
| 23 | And we asked him if he did civil action . |
| 24 | At times this was very difficult for him because he had chronic bronchitis and therefore coughed a great deal . |
| 25 | I can smell the faggy smell even when he has brushed his teeth a couple of time and rinsed with mouthwash ’ ) and drinking ( ‘ If my husband has been drinking I do n't like to kiss him because he has stale breath ’ ) . |
| 26 | But I 've not heard anything of him since I last left food and some clothes for him , and that was three days ago . ’ |
| 27 | Bill and Hillary 's only child has been assigned a secret service agent to protect her while she attends public school near Little Rock . |
| 28 | He came in and sat next to Juliet , watching her as she checked fluid-balance sheets . |
| 29 | She smiled at him as she poured boiling water into his cup and stirred his cocoa into a miniature whirlpool with a spoon . |
| 30 | We went through days with him when he met African trades union seminars and black nationalist leaders ; Cabinet Ministers ; some of the most shell-backed Right-wingers and some of the most outspoken men of the Left . |