Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I goes in to this guy , and he goes like that , ‘ Hello , sit down . ’ |
| 2 | So I says only on one condition if your daddy pi leaves you at the door at school and picks you up |
| 3 | ‘ I think he traces a lot of his troubles back to that time . |
| 4 | 'E knows more about that place than the guv'nor 'imself , ’ he asserted . |
| 5 | She goes on in formulaic terms : ( " He [ my husband ] loves me and I love him well ; our love is as true as steel " ) |
| 6 | But I suppose you get insight er twenty per cent was she ca n't outrun him I think this bit she gets killed and she turns up in Little England , this come on . |
| 7 | [ To ] Mary Leapor , I award the palm … she writes here with rare skill , reason and imagination on woman in society , knocking askew any easy line-up of ‘ new ’ with ‘ realist ’ by doing so in the general manner of Pope , with whom she has no need to fear comparison . |
| 8 | Because she is doing what is clearly a test , the words she writes down in this list have no real context : she would probably not write in the course of a story " I heard a funny nose … " without recognising the error herself when she read it back . |
| 9 | Cogan was a Fifties singer who died tragically young ; but in Burns ' brilliant intermingling of fact and fiction , she lives on into middle age to examine her portrait in the basement of the Tate , meet her most obsessive fan , and discover her strange links with Moors murderer Myra Hindley . |
| 10 | She could receive more if she lives well into old age . |
| 11 | She lives now in converted weaving cottages in Kilbarchan , a walled garden already rich in spring colours . |
| 12 | She cares deeply about environmental issues and is a true blue ‘ green ’ . |
| 13 | You know perfectly well that your husband 's mother lives at a considerable distance , in point of fact in a suburb of Sheffield , and that she has never at any time offered to look after your children . " |
| 14 | Yes , Dorothea thought , I would enjoy her company , she would take me out of myself , for she has never for one moment lost her grip upon life , her grasp of a situation , her confidence . |
| 15 | She looks round in mock horror . |
| 16 | could n't tell you but er these cars turned up erm , there were n't no hearse and off they went and er course when I went up the garden to get some washing in Claire came up and er anyway she said er about Mr and I said well I assume it was him , I saw Mrs and she starts on about this dog barking out in the garden again ! |
| 17 | L. Stettner quotes Sachs : She quotes also from other studies to show that these co-operatives are better able to survive under adversity than are conventionally organised plywood manufacturing firms , and why : in a phrase , higher productivity , so much higher as to result in some cases in value added per labour-hour of more than twice that of those firms . |
| 18 | Now she sings instead with local choirs . |
| 19 | He found that , left to herself , she takes up to 24 hours to prepare for farrowing . |
| 20 | As she talks , the computer screen behind her bleeps regularly as pieces of electronic mail arrive ; she gets up to 40 messages a day . |
| 21 | If she wants whatever it is she gets out of this relationship , no one can deny she 's entitled to it . |
| 22 | She curls up at one end , leaving plenty of room . |
| 23 | ‘ The only way a girl like you gets on in this world is if she has something worth selling . |
| 24 | She appears only to male descendants of the family who slaughtered her own long ago , dumping their bodies in Lake Darmstadt . |
| 25 | Although some poems , especially her essays , suggest that she is also looking toward a wider audience , in the vast majority of poems she speaks specifically to some woman she knows . |
| 26 | Admittedly , she does not at any point in her letter state explicitly her desire to return ; but that is the unmistakable message conveyed by the general nuance of many of the passages , imbued as they are with a deep nostalgia for her days at Darlington Hall . |
| 27 | For example : I expect her to obey me when I make a reasonable request or command , so that , if ( say ) I ask her to remain at the table until she 's finished her meal , she does so without endless arguments or fits of temper . |
| 28 | She delights particularly in this dominance of architecture over furnishing , ‘ a piece of space enclosed simply for the sake of beautiful outline ’ , so that the small dining-table appears as ‘ an odd and insignificant accident ’ . |
| 29 | She works consistently for American television , on Broadway and in films . |
| 30 | If she comes out by that hole her only route must be through the cage , in which she is then recaptured . |