Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That evening Mrs Puri remarked to me that none of the considerable expense of the party would have been necessary if members of her family did not insist on leaving the Punjab and pursuing business ventures Abroad . |
| 2 | I mean even when I was small you would n't use thee and thou to an older person . |
| 3 | oh yeah the people , matey 's walking along and he 's going like this and he 's pulling it as he 's doing it , he says and he 's doing it in proper time like that , but with one arm going he 's twiddling it , he 's doing it , he says no my feet are exactly like that , very effective but you can actually get fined for loosing them , you have to pay for them and its like a real , shooting sticks as well , you do n't tend to carry erm , these pay sticks you carry them like the old shooting sticks , the old you know ? |
| 4 | But an exchange puts both them and us into a geographical funnel towards the meeting point . ’ |
| 5 | Well perhaps you or somebody on the other side might care to tell us how you 're gon na take it from three to three and half , cos I 'll quite happily tell you then how we 'll take it from three and half to four percent , so we welcome that as a step in the right direction . |
| 6 | You say about the Moat House being expensive , well it might be expensive to you or I as an individual , but when you 're negotiating conference rates in the area it is actually cheap and very suitable . |
| 7 | Okay thank you and what about the last group . |
| 8 | I believe that those sexual practices which fail to recognise the essential humanity of other people are bad ; the man who rapes an unwilling partner , the individual who takes delight in the infliction of pain upon a partner who does not desire it , or the one who forces another into any sexual practice which is obnoxious to him or her is using the " partner " as an object rather than interacting with him or her as a human being . |
| 9 | When planning a project which is likely to affect your neighbour in any way , it 's always advisable to consult him or her at an early stage , so that he is fully aware of your plans . |
| 10 | Although you should be helpful and guide the candidate through the interview do not go too far and start ‘ pointing ’ him or her at the right answers . |
| 11 | It not only involves the user more demonstrably in the process and provides him or her with a visible record of the interview , but also begins to construct a historical picture of the older person . |
| 12 | If you feel that your child may be mixing with youngsters who sniff glue , you could talk to your child and warn him or her of the possible risks and dangers involved . |
| 13 | He always follows up , if necessary , with a second response to the customer to inform him or her of the corrective action taken . |
| 14 | The client will usually require the engineer to inform him or her of the likely final cost of construction at regular intervals . |
| 15 | If recruiting a specialist practitioner , therefore , bear in mind that you will often have to carry him or her for a reasonable period until they have been able to build their workload up . |
| 16 | This helper first massages the feet of the subject , then the head , and finally guides him or her through a mental exercise intended to lead to the regression itself . |
| 17 | At the same time , however , the child 's status as a child is perhaps more tightly defined through employment legislation , the raising of the school-leaving age ( thus depriving the child of an independent source of income as well as retaining him or her within an institutionalized system of control ) , and the growth of a market geared to particular and distinctive images of childhood and adolescence . |
| 18 | If your dog is an unusual first cross , please send us a photo and all the relevant details so we can include him or her in a future issue . |
| 19 | If your dog is an unusual first cross , please send us a photo and all the relevant details so we can include him or her in a future issue . |
| 20 | If your dog is an unusual first cross , please send us a photo and all the relevant details so we can include him or her in a future issue . |
| 21 | It would be a defence for a person charged to prove that he/she had good reason or lawful authority for having the article with him or her in a public place . |
| 22 | And by continuing to treat him or her in a provocative manner we perpetuate a downward spiral of negative actions and reactions : in the case of the teenager , the disciplinary problems we anticipated . |
| 23 | There is no tort or crime , as there would be if the police were to beat up the suspect or wrongly apprehend him or her in the first place . |
| 24 | As the child grows we aim to educate him or her in the constructive use of leisure time and so a range of extra-curricular activities is offered . |
| 25 | Him and me at the same time . |
| 26 | He did n't want to tempt fate , but fate had brought them together again and now there was only him and her in the whole world . |
| 27 | Was it not a benefit to him to have the crew sail the ship home rather than abandon him and it in a foreign port ? |
| 28 | In Russia Catherine II , after conniving at the overthrow and murder of her husband in 1762 , was on continuously bad terms with her son and heir , Paul , who feared and hated her and whom in the last two decades of her reign she scarcely ever saw . |
| 29 | If you do n't fancy knitting the entire motifs in lurex , then try knitting it or them in a plain colour and combine a fine lurex thread with the background colour . |
| 30 | In these great welfare state totalitarianisms therefore , as in the modern world , child-rearing regimes could regress to pre-agricultural styles , and oral indulgence , Oedipal rivalry and incestuous fixation could all be allowed to occur in the individual because the state bureaucracies would see to it that none of the undesirable consequences of these things occurred in reality . |