Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | and I swapped him this elephant |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They 've to four hundred shots in them and I bet you any money you like that is true . |
| 10 | and I brought it this way round the normal way that we go |
| 11 | ‘ And I bid you good day , too . ’ |
| 12 | It 's the new marrow and ginger , Dorothy and I chose it this afternoon . |
| 13 | The old order seemed fine to me , and I left it that way . |
| 14 | Anyway , he come out and I told him all rigmarole ! |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Oh yes , and I saw you this afternoon . ’ |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | And I tried it one night , it was very yummy and very filling . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She gave me a slap and I gave her one back . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | That 's happened , I could n't get any one year I took the triplets to the erm Goose Hill coffee morning in the Town Hall and I gave them all money for the tombola and one of them won a Creme Egg |
| 24 | It 's her ring and I bought her that scarf . ’ |
| 25 | Mr Holmes added : ‘ They certainly caused a mess and its taken us all morning trying to patch it up . |
| 26 | One difficulty lay in the endless commissions he received , usually for illustrative work within an established vein and which left him little time to experiment . |
| 27 | I implored him not to , but he was adamant , thus following Rear Admiral Poland who had resigned from Muirfield in consequence of my being blackballed there ( ‘ it makes no sense at all ’ , he wrote to the secretary , ‘ that he can be accepted as a guest but blackballed as a member ’ ) : both were sacrifices for which I felt a personal responsibility and which caused me much distress . |
| 28 | Instead of a telling-off , with time to put things right , TDC found itself under a much more strict court order with which it could not negotiate and which gave it little flexibility . |
| 29 | And you ask me any body 's names around here I could n't even tell you Sylvia 's name next door . |
| 30 | And the supporters been treating me well , the promotion been treating me well , so obviously I never really wanted to move but we had a few problems with the negotiating with the contract and the financial terms was n't quite right so but I 'm glad to say we 've got it right now and you know we both sort of gave a bit and we came to a settlement er which I 'm very pleased about . |