Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [pron] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I says what a bloody excuse , I says and his car broke down , shh bloody corporation buses here , why does n't he use a corporation bus to get in ? |
| 2 | Oh yeah , I says what a clever fellow I am I say ! |
| 3 | She begrudges you every little bit of that . |
| 4 | Er what a lovely wife she says what a lovely man you are . |
| 5 | She says its a perfect evening . |
| 6 | She says its a fitting tribute . |
| 7 | She says its an English summer thing . |
| 8 | ‘ She leads him a right dance , ’ the nans would say , during their daily exchange of news and analysis in the queue at the butcher 's , until finally she danced off for good and all and left him with his mother and his clapped-out BSA and his jars of Brylcreem and his collection of 78 records and a lifetime 's cumulation of unarticulated resentments . |
| 9 | She phones me every other day . |
| 10 | She calls it the magic flannel and says : ‘ Mummy you 'll be fine . |
| 11 | She finds it a little bit difficult . |
| 12 | He spoke already in terms of collaboration — ‘ I sent you a few studies because you can see from them that she helps me a great deal by posing . |
| 13 | She tells me the only freedom is that of the imagination . |
| 14 | She gives him a tight smile and wrinkles her nose . |
| 15 | She gives him a filthy look . |
| 16 | a Chinese girl she 's living in it , in a kind of a real dive of loft thing to do her art and she gives him the odd painting instead of paying rent . |
| 17 | She gives me a little smile and I feel a bit better . |
| 18 | I would n't say she gives me an ecstatic welcome . |
| 19 | ‘ The wave is my lover and she gives me the ultimate orgasm . ’ |
| 20 | She gives her an energetic push , backwards , into the sitting-room . |
| 21 | It 's not only in the dialogue that Harper Lee expresses the tension between the blacks and whites , but all through the book in her description of where people live , where they work , the churches they go to and her detailed description of the court room and how the black community sit on the balcony above , away from the whites , she gives us a vivid idea of the way life was in the 1930 's and sets the scene well . |
| 22 | She 's going she 's looking at you and you go , come here , you take a step further and she gives you a dirty look and then she waits until you 're that close and then she jumps ! |
| 23 | SHE does it the other way round , because we 're convinced that not only our readers , but most UK cooks , do n't cook metric . |
| 24 | Instead of the usual embarrassed note next morning , she leaves him the fragmentary manuscript of Rory 's own Crow Road : a folder of gnomic jottings and descriptions that represents a more substantial legacy than his father 's . |
| 25 | Everything about him makes him a tricky subject . |
| 26 | That is what will keep us head and shoulders above any of our competitors even if they do wave a BS5750 certificate around as though it guarantees them a divine right to business success . |
| 27 | He offers everyone a serious comparison of Keaton and Charlie Chaplin ( with Harold Lloyd and Fatty Arbuckle trivia thrown in for good measure ) , revealing that Keaton was , for him , the true genius on account of his invention and comic daring . |
| 28 | Now I understand that top level sailors welcome the one-design nature of the Grand Prix , not only because it is potentially inexpensive , but because it offers them an even platform from which to display their skills . |
| 29 | Firstly , I believe , it offers us an interesting way of interpreting images of seclusion and withdrawal . |
| 30 | I rarely comment on Irish affairs , not because of lack of interest but because the Irish communities would reject any opinion or suggestion if they considered it a ’ Brit ’ suggestion or opinion , but , in this instance , the circumstances are so hideously distressing that I feel compelled to comment and to ask the Minister whether he thinks it a heavy irony that last Friday 's incident followed successive discoveries of large caches of arms and whether perhaps it was a desperate attempt by the IRA to reassert some degree of authority . |