Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [vb pp] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She looks like someone has punched her in the mouth , ’ said one pal . |
| 2 | She does n't do anything special to look after the distinctive voice which has kept her in the music business for an astonishing 33 years . |
| 3 | Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ . |
| 4 | He has offered madness in the form of a minute ; she has accepted it in the form of an examination answer . |
| 5 | I suppose she 's put it in the other room . |
| 6 | At least it 's worth a celebration cigar and not just for Arthur Daley , Britain 's beat known comedy Crook , but for the man who 's played him in the Minder series George Cole , although he reckons Arthur would be knocking out replicas already . |
| 7 | Who 's left it in the |
| 8 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 9 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 10 | The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement . |
| 11 | He has educated me in the best sense of the word and I have trusted him as I think I would trust no one else of my own sex . |
| 12 | It has put us in the position of villains , whereas the Secretary of State is the villain because he will not pay . |
| 13 | A drawback is that it 's put them in the frame for some pretty clueless advances from non-comprehending journalists eager to get to the bottom of this modernist lark . |
| 14 | In other words it 's not part of its standard employment allocation but it 's put it in the local plan so that people know , the locals know , that that field over there those fields over there erm are not guaranteed for ever as countryside but on the other hand they 're jolly well not gon na be released unless it 's for something extremely special for which there would be a statement carried through from the structure plan , elaborated on no doubt at local level , which set the rules . |
| 15 | And it 's stuck it in the paper somewhere that er Branson has given money and er oh you know lots of other people in big business have given money . |
| 16 | ‘ Angry though he 's made me in the past , he is a good lad . |
| 17 | If you have n't done any business , you 've no income , so he 's left it in the pot , so he can draw another one thousand two hundred . |
| 18 | He 's identified him in the I D . |
| 19 | It may be no time at all before he 's got you in the racket . |
| 20 | But it is obvious that the sentences form part of some larger act of conversational interaction between two speakers ; the sentences contain several references that presuppose shared knowledge ( e.g. ‘ that meeting ’ implies that both speakers know which meeting is being spoken about ) , and in some cases the meaning of a sentence can only be correctly interpreted in the light of knowledge of what has preceded it in the conversation ( e.g. ‘ You ca n't be sure ’ ) . |