Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Hall denied this and maintained his 270 new recruits had been bonded together by the ugly scenes which confronted them each day as they passed picket lines . |
| 2 | Indeed , she told me that she looked forward to practising them each evening as it formed such a peaceful interlude in her anxious life . |
| 3 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 4 | He gave me that nickname because I 'm small with curly hair like a candyfloss stick , and it 's kind of cute . |
| 5 | A typical problem raised by practitioners is : ‘ He wo n't give me professional clearance because there are fees outstanding . ’ |
| 6 | You could n't cut them that day cos they were hot , you see , the day you killed them the , cos father was a rare man he , when we got , we got two fridges , we used to kill a week in hand , you see , one lot was in one fridge , that was in there a week before we touched it yeah . |
| 7 | Ehm , Bank Holiday August , well were going with them that weekend cos like . |
| 8 | And can you keep them that height if |
| 9 | ‘ I only charged them fifty pence so we wo n't get rich on that , but it 's probably done our reputation a lot of good . ’ |
| 10 | But there was a foreman in the shop , but these did their own job er and er in the about three or four weeks , and I 'm only a kid , erm they had me doing separate jobs you know , not for a gaffer or anything and er they used to , they give me odd jobs as , you know like , to help the men and er it went of like that in till I was eighteen or nineteen , well twenty , that time you were , day , become a man . |
| 11 | So I 've lost me bloody job because of it he said . |
| 12 | Thus the capitalists have economic power , controlling and exploiting the worker , and this also gives them political power as well . |
| 13 | On top of everything , he gave me 500 dollars for my twenty-first birthday and it 's this I intend sharing between Jenny and the family . ’ |
| 14 | The unit does nothing this turn while the Bosses crack heads together to restore order . |
| 15 | I could remember nothing further back than the time I was walking over that miserable plain . |
| 16 | Sooner than he had expected , Harry found himself back in Swindon Central Library , this time perusing the national newspapers for 2 June 1987 in the hope of gleaning from them some clue as to what had eluded him on his visit to Tyler 's Hard . |
| 17 | But I 'm hoping we are going to give them some problems as well . ’ |
| 18 | Lieutenant Ramos gave them some warning as the helicopter approached their destination some time later . |
| 19 | I said to Paddy I think that they do that John will owe , owe them some money cos he 'll owe them tax from all the doles . |
| 20 | This last item had caused them some concern when the bag had been unzipped just after the plane landed , but Grandson Richard had thrust the book among the papers without glancing inside . |
| 21 | " Your aunt became interested in selling them some time before she died . |
| 22 | They are not binding as authoritative directives , though the circumstances of the case may require giving them some weight if , for example , others innocently have relied on them . |
| 23 | Let them do what they like as long as you 're not well they do , they kill you , kill you stone dead er them French vaches Cos , see you go in down here you see , where you 've got ta jump up to get out got ta jump up off the floor , you got ta jump up about four feet to get out see , they were n't just like |
| 24 | treat employees sympathetically if they relapse and give them another chance if they take advice and undergo treatment |
| 25 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 26 | And let's face it when they go to school they can have free school dinners and then we can get them free clothes as well ca n't we ? |
| 27 | It also spoke , however , of ‘ due account of prevailing economic and social conditions ’ — a get-out clause that ministers said would give them free rein while saving the face of parliament . |
| 28 | I just hope i t 's not going to haunt me this year because I really would n't want that . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ This really shook me this morning although I am getting over it a bit now , ’ she said yesterday . |
| 30 | And I mean Dee said to me this morning cos she heard us one morning |