Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's her ring and I bought her that scarf . ’ |
| 2 | On Sunday , all afternoon it 's flipping football and it drives me crazy ! |
| 3 | He won that actually on appeal because he said he needed to raise the funds for a project he 'd got in mind and they allowed him twenty eight days in the first year , he now carries on fourteen days without planning permission every year , but give him credit he does run it very well , er and you can not fault him , but we in our area do actually issue licences , you can not have a car boot sale or market stall without a licence and I personally have run the charity markets in er the village high street and got a licence at the cost of a pound . |
| 4 | It 's one-party rule for the foreseeable future and I find it depressing . ’ |
| 5 | Well as I say I went for this interview and she phoned me last Sunday did n't she ? |
| 6 | There were tracks over the snow and we followed them that day . |
| 7 | In your case you may be able to say that your spouse has committed adultery and you find it intolerable to live with her ; or that you have lived apart for two years and you consent to the divorce . |
| 8 | He asked me for a light and I offered him one of my Gauloises . |
| 9 | He loved buying me clothes , he bought me twenty-nine ball gowns , one for each year of our marriage and I have them all still , hanging up in my closet . |
| 10 | She told Cleveland coroner Michael Sheffield he became depressed through being out of work and it made him irritable and upset . |
| 11 | Mr Holmes added : ‘ They certainly caused a mess and its taken us all morning trying to patch it up . |
| 12 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 13 | Mrs Reid 's religion was the love of humanity and she found it hard that the first women 's college should win so very little understanding or support at its outset , especially from men . |
| 14 | That 's happened , I could n't get any one year I took the triplets to the erm Goose Hill coffee morning in the Town Hall and I gave them all money for the tombola and one of them won a Creme Egg |
| 15 | One difficulty lay in the endless commissions he received , usually for illustrative work within an established vein and which left him little time to experiment . |
| 16 | Take the word ‘ vibe ’ out of the Dublin hipster 's vocabulary and you render him speechless . |
| 17 | Korda came from a broken home and it left him insecure . |
| 18 | His body was rich with the smell of sweat and kahlua and he sent me sprawling and hyper with untold hormones upon the bathroom tiles , but one day , suddenly , actually it was night , parked atop Mulholland Drive with the car windows steamed and the upright stick shift pressing painfully against my lower back and my head banging against the passenger door , I was paralysed by the heaving horny heaviness of him and my climax was full and first — first time ever — but followed by a limpness in my body , dull as the shade of putrid beige , and later I dreamed he had invaded me in sleep and crushed me with his broadness and with pillows , though Crilly it was not suffocation I feared , no , it was something more abstract , more bodily and carnivorous , something akin to nameless reptiles , and it was not so very different from the gun and the windbreaker blowing large and puffy about a stranger 's gut like a tent in my car at Pico Boulevard , and I so sure I would be found dismembered and crotchless and gory and absurd , strewn from limb to limb across the green tweed upholstery , unrecognisable in death , and again the windows steamed , the windows steamed with that hot clenched nameless fist inside me and the glide of cool metal against my neck , and then there were no thoughts , no words in my head , nothing . |
| 19 | I implored him not to , but he was adamant , thus following Rear Admiral Poland who had resigned from Muirfield in consequence of my being blackballed there ( ‘ it makes no sense at all ’ , he wrote to the secretary , ‘ that he can be accepted as a guest but blackballed as a member ’ ) : both were sacrifices for which I felt a personal responsibility and which caused me much distress . |
| 20 | on long play and it lasts us eight hours . |
| 21 | I also think it 's a question of being able to provide , certainly at the top of a company , a sense of direction and I find it hard to see how you can have an absolutely clear sense of direction unless you yourself are able to assess the essentials as you see them for success in your particular trade . |
| 22 | Redmond received many messages of sympathy and he answered them all last night when he promised : ‘ I will run again . |
| 23 | In Woolwich 's case the main authorities are set out chronologically as an appendix and I find it convenient to deal with them in that order and to describe the principle above referred to as ‘ the Woolwich principle . ’ |
| 24 | I , he asked me the one , you know , we were on about this morning , the only one we looked at , fifty miles an hour and he asked me that one and I knew it . |
| 25 | I am keeping them alive in my heart and I want you all to do the same . ’ |
| 26 | The breath was constricted in his chest and he found it difficult to swallow . |
| 27 | She give him a tenner and she give him that box with bloody channel change on ! |
| 28 | My brother and I treat them as full brother and sister and we spoil them rotten . |
| 29 | Now even if you put that in your calculator and you get it wrong , and you get fifty or something . |
| 30 | It 's good experience and it keeps you fit . |