Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Cos it 's them bloody things we 've got ! |
| 3 | What is it about them that dissatisfies you ? |
| 4 | She 's like one of them underwater swimmers I seen on telly — you know , all slow and graceful like . |
| 5 | But them , them old blankets we had some because we need them when they come , I fold 'em |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | William was more eager that he should show me some papers he had recently received by post from America . |
| 8 | Aye , he gave me , he gave me some tablets I do n't know whether |
| 9 | You 'd better ask me some questions I think . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Self conscious in my normal clothes I seated myself at the rear of the upper stalls . |
| 12 | But as she administered to my addled wits I felt a surge of rebellion . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | About my ruined clothes I felt less concern , for I noticed that the flood had made many people shabby . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | To my jaded ears it is a stupendous musical achievement . |
| 19 | My actual words I believe were something in the line of telling Helen to mind her own business and to keep her nose out of my affairs , but Beth and Ida could never understand why I reacted so violently . |
| 20 | My personal observations I can make a comment on , for example , the cultural area . |
| 21 | In my early years I did n't differentiate between one kind of science and another . |
| 22 | But in my early days it was quite common for some of the old horsemen to walk anything up to two or three miles , and sometimes more , to bring harness down to the shop . |
| 23 | hiding Joe remembers : ‘ In my early days I had a big following in Barnsley , bigger even than at home in Bradford and I played Alex there one night for a few pounds . |
| 24 | ‘ In my early days I was into Pere Ubu and Josef K , but now I 'm more mellow and listen to Lyle Lovett and some classical stuff . |
| 25 | In my nineteen years I 've had three women , a nervous breakdown and some poor education . |
| 26 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 27 | But it was as I got into my teenaged years I began to get bored with my walk on roles , sitting around for hours waiting to go on with make-up and costumes on was no fun any more , but I was far too young to do anything else but walk on say a few lines and walk off again . |
| 28 | ‘ To my little children I am a shadow also . |
| 29 | ‘ In my worst moments I thought everyone knew , except me . ’ |
| 30 | I will never return to Treasure Island , but in my worst dreams I still hear the sharp , high scream of Captain Flint the parrot : ‘ Pieces of eight ! |