Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | To complicate the picture even further , there are a number of other devices which , although not strictly security interests in the sense of vesting some type of proprietary interest in the creditor or which give him possessory control over assets of the debtor company , nevertheless act as security . |
2 | Labels — either London print these or they send us blank labels for CAW organisers and church leaders print-out . |
3 | He is a ‘ movie ’ man ; and nothing does him greater credit than his energetic campaign to get Kodak to mend their stock , so that colour-films of the past do not automatically fade and turn green . |
4 | Under his guidance , Parliament House was transformed from a nineteenth-century warren into a modern court-house and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to explore , and share with others , its secrets and treasures . |
5 | He was no respecter of persons or institutions or ideas just because they were vested with a brief authority , and nothing gave him more pleasure than to prick the bubble of pretension . |
6 | And I tell you another thing I noticed , I cut through the car park in the lane behind Shirley 's one day this week , I went through and and the back door of the old police station 's open . |
7 | And I got her two strips of Elastaplast . |
8 | and I swapped him this elephant |
9 | Well I know where my oh is that yours ? it 's in my overall pockets and I , I tell you what 's in the , in the thing with it , me petrol one and I had me premium punch put on there look . |
10 | José Puig de la Bellacasa returns to Madrid to fulfil an important post in the Royal Household , and I wish them many years of good health and happiness in their own country . |
11 | If you 're still interested , do n't forget to place your order with a good dealer , and I wish you good luck in preserving your fingers . |
12 | When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago , we decided to look after you as well as we could . |
13 | They 've to four hundred shots in them and I bet you any money you like that is true . |
14 | and I brought it this way round the normal way that we go |
15 | ‘ And I bid you good day , too . ’ |
16 | It 's the new marrow and ginger , Dorothy and I chose it this afternoon . |
17 | The old order seemed fine to me , and I left it that way . |
18 | Anyway , he come out and I told him all rigmarole ! |
19 | ‘ But Mother went scarlet when the boss 's wife told me what a nice suit I was wearing , and I told her that Mother had spent nearly all night making it . ’ |
20 | And I saw him five minutes later eating sandwiches — posting them , Breeze , like letters in a pillar-box ! ’ |
21 | ‘ Oh yes , and I saw you this afternoon . ’ |
22 | I said and that 's why cos Paul said to me , he said , I never hear you moan , I said look you wo n't hear me moan because it 's not that I enjoy the job I hate the job I said I hate the work , and I find it hard work but at the end of the day on a Friday , I know that six o'clock in the morning on a Friday I can go up to the Nationwide Anglia , slip my card in there and I know there 's gon na be a couple of hundred of quid in there with the |
23 | yeah , cos I 'm not er paying , I 'm not giving up my summer holidays and I want me five weeks |
24 | And I tried it one night , it was very yummy and very filling . |
25 | As a particularly honoured guest , Eliot sat at High Table , whereas others like myself were placed among the students or ‘ novices ’ , and I preferred it that way . |
26 | and I used them this year and they er I 've got quite a lot of Right furry I was er hoping to get I do n't think these 'll come out somehow . |
27 | Through a literary agent I had in New York I was able to help Sir Charles arrange the publication of that last book in America and I visited him many times , to hear him talk . |
28 | She gave me a slap and I gave her one back . |
29 | Brenda , I adore it , it 's me all over so the bathroom I had endless trouble , as you know , with Shirley I had to buy stuff and Shirley came in and I gave her little presents of this and that and helped her with cooking meals for her she re-grouted practically my bath tiles and my en suite tiles because we thought water was going through the wall , and it was and then I had to replace the where you take the plug out in the bath , I forget what you call that , the trap |
30 | I had found out that her name was Miss Vulcan and I gave her this information as well as telling her that Miss Vulcan had a brother named Freddie who visited her and that he was a little old man who wore a black cap on his head and sported a goatee beard . |