Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Same as them posh blokes what come here — they all want to be caned . |
| 2 | Huh , I think I had such a good night , you know what you 've bloody well done he said you 've got up he said before you was ready he said , you knew you wanted to get on he said , and you 've got up he said with the intentions he said , you had them bloody cakes he said before you had breakfast , well I had to with her coming |
| 3 | Cos it 's them bloody things we 've got ! |
| 4 | What is it about them that dissatisfies you ? |
| 5 | She 's like one of them underwater swimmers I seen on telly — you know , all slow and graceful like . |
| 6 | Norton 's 13,000 shareholders , most of them private individuals who invested out of loyalty to the name and hope for its resurrection , are stuck : they can neither sell their shares nor can they vote on MacDonald 's tenure . |
| 7 | But them , them old blankets we had some because we need them when they come , I fold 'em |
| 8 | Them funny statues they make with no eyes in and titchy little things are so we wo n't know what they 're really like . |
| 9 | William was more eager that he should show me some papers he had recently received by post from America . |
| 10 | And er Bill give me some roses which were |
| 11 | Aye , he gave me , he gave me some tablets I do n't know whether |
| 12 | You 'd better ask me some questions I think . |
| 13 | yeah , I got f I got , my total marks I could 've got was fifty eight and I got fifty four and she gave me a C and she said must improve your marks . |
| 14 | Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls . |
| 15 | But as she administered to my addled wits I felt a surge of rebellion . |
| 16 | His eyes filled , but he did not know it was happening , this overflowing , until I reached down , wiped his face , showed him my wet fingers which he dried with his own . |
| 17 | I referred to it and you oddly enough in a handwritten letter to my father the other night after referring to Lord XXXXX one of whose contemporaries and friends is coming to stay here a couple of nights next week , and who has been a pillar in the fabric of my life , a man for whom consistency , continuity and courtesy are all — and who is often concerned at the unhappiness which is my ? ? ? ? ? ? ? it is in anything other than a bit of paper , which most of my old friends who wish me well , doubt ) … |
| 18 | Indeed erm I can say this now er that at that time , unknown to the top management of I was buying large quantities of leather from my old firm it into the town , right past the front door of my old offices which were now the hea the local headquarters of our and selling them , literally , within sight of the building that used to be the place where I operated from on their behalf . |
| 19 | And I forget which of my old colleagues it was who was canvassing , blue rosette ablaze , in a particularly Labour-dominated council estate in Sheffield , when he came upon an elderly voter planting primroses by the door . |
| 20 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
| 21 | Mr and Mrs Singh kept most of their official correspondence between the pages of their telephone directory and on my weekly visits we sorted out the milk tokens , rates demands , post office giros , all of which made linguistic demands which were beyond the level of their competence . |
| 22 | About my ruined clothes I felt less concern , for I noticed that the flood had made many people shabby . |
| 23 | In two of my cited cases what we do might have moral relevance for animal welfare ; although the label ‘ moral ’ would probably be disputed if our uncertainty over the pet or circus were solely on grounds of cost or distance of travel . |
| 24 | After nights of fox predation on my small flock of sheep , I wonder if the anti-hunt protesters would like to hear the cries of my bereft ewes who have lost their lambs ? |
| 25 | Having listened to the arguments of my Hon. Friends I do not know why the Minister has not leapt to his feet to say that he accepts the new clause . |
| 26 | I shall draw the hon. Gentleman 's point to the attention of my hon. Friends who will serve on the Standing Committee on the Bill . |
| 27 | I sometimes think that some of my hon. Friends who would like to see the tax in some way equalised between one place and another are hankering after a tax which this tax is not . |
| 28 | The interesting factor in all those arguments is that my hon. Friends who sat on the respective Committees or spoke on the Second Reading of Bills associated with privatisation said at the time that the Government were privatising monopoly , not introducing effective competition and regulation , and the matter would have to be examined again . |
| 29 | None the less , I am delighted that many of my hon. Friends who I know have a keen interest in the subject of regional government are in their places this morning . |
| 30 | I realise that my hon. Friends who represent constituencies in other parts of the country are still waiting to hear something that was implied during the passage of the Bill . |