Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Israelites go out to gather it , each of them gathers exactly the right amount for himself and his family ; on the sixth day of the week a double portion is given and collected so that the sabbath rest can be properly kept ; on the sabbath , appropriately , no manna appears at all ; while any kept at the end of any of the first five days goes bad overnight , the half of the sixth day 's gathering put aside for the sabbath keeps perfectly fresh . |
| 2 | She holds up the American education system as an answer to the supposed link between language and class mobility . |
| 3 | She has n't the slightest interest in Monpazier . |
| 4 | thought like she says so I just , you know , ignored her and she says then the next day she was out doing her windows and she shouted over to Dawn ah hello Dawn and Da Dawn just says hiya . |
| 5 | Look where you are , and then , ’ she reaches out the undamaged arm to drape it cosily over Rainbow 's hunched-up shoulders , ‘ look where I am . |
| 6 | It is a central theme throughout the book , and she criticises frequently the Catholic beliefs and customs . |
| 7 | She cleans up the Black Prince and puts him back on his table . |
| 8 | ‘ No , it 's just that my sister 's going out , ’ she says , as she picks up the various plastic carrier bags already waiting in the hall . |
| 9 | She proposes consequently the following paraphrase of I was sorry to fail : If I had known this : this will happen to me ( I will fail ) I would have thought this : this will be bad , I will feel sorry when I thought this : I know this now : it happened to me I felt it ( sorry ) |
| 10 | Neither of you knows personally the young man to whom you intend to entrust your , er … secret , and I feel it is my duty to caution you . ’ |
| 11 | Her manner and her uniform will secure the patient 's trust as she carries out the necessary investigations , while her understanding of the aims of the study will ensure that she can offer the research team more than columns of figures . |
| 12 | Rather than simply criticizing quantitative analysis as a whole , she adapts slightly the standard method of measuring linguistic variables , pointing out that the three variants of ( r ) which can be distinguished ( [ ? ] , [ ? ] and [ ? ] are difficult to place on any rationally motivated social continuum . |
| 13 | ‘ I warn you — I 'm not going to pull any punches , ’ Howard tells Miriam when she comes back the following week with the film crew . |
| 14 | They are , what , there , they goes up the Catholic school where your sister 's kids go |
| 15 | When he wins he turns up the next week as if nothing 's happened — and as if he has n't got a penny to his name , that 's the difference between Seve and others — what sets him apart a bit , I suppose . |
| 16 | It insists that this is therefore the best guide to what they should do , that it points out the right direction for continuing and developing that practice . |
| 17 | He 's extremely cheerful , if somewhat misguided , as he points out the many features of the room , and mentions that the public rooms in the Cottage will be opened at seven o'clock . |
| 18 | He points out the surprising truth that an accurate random sample of 1,000 people will work whether it is taken from a population of 5,000 , five million or 50 million . |
| 19 | oh just shoving sheets of plate into a , a machine that comes down and it take , it goes out the other end and you put another one in all day long |
| 20 | He does n't like going to school for a start , but he goes else the old man beats him up . |
| 21 | It represents both the physical mihrab of the mosque and the spiritual archway to Paradise , and is often flanked by the " pillars of wisdom " ( pl. 31 ) . |
| 22 | Thus in Lothian about 250 children — the vast majority not infected with HIV — are likely to suffer the death of one or both parents due to disease related to HIV in the near future ; this figure is probably an underestimate as it represents only the tested population . |
| 23 | Friuli is a particularly rich site for bird trappers , since it sits aside the main north-south trans-European migratory route . |
| 24 | Losing the left engine is trickier since it drives both the single generator and the sole hydraulic pump . |
| 25 | I 'm gon na have a wee Bill 's bloody worse , he stands there , he looks out the bloody window as much as any bugger . |
| 26 | She was afraid then , rather as a skier might feel when he looks down the steep whiteness of a dangerous slope , or a high diver who seems far above the water , but the sensation was so unusual to her that she could n't be sure that it was entirely unpleasant still strongly mixed , as it was , with curiosity . |
| 27 | But another thing is you see where Sandra lives , you saying that where she lives is apparently erm P C , now I do n't know him , but she does he lives up the same road and when people park did n't she tell you this when we were coming down ? |
| 28 | Tonight he holds back the ill-concealed shudders and caresses the swelling head , he bends and kisses the skin exposed . |
| 29 | It illustrates clearly the divergent needs of liquidity and profitability that confront most banks . |
| 30 | He has just the one daughter and that girl has given him great cause for concern . |