Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [pron] [vb -s] [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 | Manjiku thinks he 'll have a baby himself if he eats enough women , especially women with babies inside them waiting to be born — ; |
| 3 | Please pass on my condolences and tell her to call me if she needs any help . ’ |
| 4 | They are invisible to humans , although a child born on a Sunday may glimpse them if he puts one foot inside a fairy ring . |
| 5 | Young skin is less able naturally to protect itself as it contains less melanin and therefore has less tanning ability . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | We love him he 's thirteen years old so we we decided to get a a puppy because we thought we 'd we would n't want to get one when he departs this world because you can never replace them . |
| 8 | Well I would expect that the Prime Minister would , I think this nonsense that is behind all this is that because I am talking to Gerry Adams , they do n't want to be seen to be talking to me because it looks this fingerprint argument |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When I want a change of scenery I 'll ask her if she wants any help . |
| 11 | I tell him if he harbours any ideas about staying with me , he 'd better kick the gear . |
| 12 | When his sister , Phoebe , asks him if he has any career ambitions , Holden tells her that he would like to be the ‘ Catcher in the Rye ’ ( a misquote from a poem by Robert Burns ) . |
| 13 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 14 | Bill and Hillary 's only child has been assigned a secret service agent to protect her while she attends public school near Little Rock . |
| 15 | Stand over him while he makes those calls . ’ |
| 16 | I stop staring at her as she repeats several times , ‘ You are Scottish ? |
| 17 | He is a former partner of Gaffer Hexam 's , but Hexam repudiates him when he finds that Riderhood has been robbing live bodies as well as dead ones . |
| 18 | It still thinks that by interfering and pouring on more layers of bureaucracy and government it will achieve something that has eluded it for so long and will continue to elude it if it takes that path . |
| 19 | Thus where the discretionary fund management arm of a conglomerate receives confidential information from the corporate finance arm about Company X , the fund management arm may be prevented from using the information of disclosing it if it has actual knowledge of the breach of confidence or possibly where it ought to have known of the breach . |
| 20 | Discard it if it has awkward wires or some other hazard on the approach , and choose another field . |
| 21 | We have adopted it because it gives greater strength and dignity and fullness to the design . |
| 22 | Senator Ricardo may enact such a bill so as to increase his chance of re-election , or he may oppose it because he favours public spending on ideological grounds . |
| 23 | I put it off indefinitely because of your accident , but now Edward tells me he is going to America on business for ten days , and I 'd like to have it before he goes next Monday . |
| 24 | Well what about those people who are morally worthy , I take it when he says low class , he does n't mean low moral class , but mean low social class as well he probably means both things actually . |
| 25 | For one thing he certainly over-states it when he says that pleasure always comes from satisfaction of an antecedent desire for something other than pleasure . |
| 26 | He learns to participate in them before he experiences any emotion at all , so the emotional state , whatever it may be , and if there is one , can hardly be the genesis and explanation of them . |
| 27 | And what if someone misses one weeks papers ? ? ? |
| 28 | However , if you have noticed that your spots seem more extravagant following a choc-binge , then perhaps you will have to test and see for yourself whether it makes any difference . |
| 29 | I persuaded our Chairman , Hilary Weedon , to come with me as she speaks fluent German and I am keen that this contact shall continue into younger generations . |
| 30 | Yeah I just write where you were born , where your cos it says regional accent , I 'm assuming that means |