Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you may find that instead of making antiracism the rational choice for trade union officials and other bureaucrats , you are encouraging them to see immigration as dysfunctional , rather than racism ! |
| 2 | They went around the world with backpacks and no money , and they left home and lived together without getting married , and many of them became superstars when they were still only in their teens . |
| 3 | One of them asked John if he would like a drink . |
| 4 | If so , encourage them to paint pictures as they listen to music or try using art games . |
| 5 | Then Lorne said something that made me half-identify Rimbo as French . |
| 6 | Inevitably , then , their major strategy for meeting demand became the long-term one of building enough new capacity to meet the demand placed on the system at the low price levels which enabled them to increase sales while just balancing the books . |
| 7 | There is one great consolation , however , which is the fact that on a mountain nothing looks stupider than someone on a bike . |
| 8 | I asked Zsuzsa if she had a boy-friend . |
| 9 | In the rickshaw on the way back from that morning 's tolly I asked Vimla whether she would like to be reborn as a hijra in her next life . |
| 10 | Julia is like that too , so that some years later I asked Elizabeth if she herself looked at the world in that way . |
| 11 | As we drank our coffee I outlined Toby 's and my suspicions about Martinez and Jefferson , and I asked Sally whether she had got on well enough with Ed Grainger , who was Martinez' right-hand man in America , to ask him questions about the Harley contract . |
| 12 | On many occasions I asked Alf if he had taken the money to pay the debt but he never did ! |
| 13 | I asked Sergei while our friend was in the gents . |
| 14 | I asked Mahmood whether he thought the attitude of the male strikers towards the women had changed at all . |
| 15 | I asked Jon if the plants proved to be a tasty morsel for the Forest 's ponies . |
| 16 | I asked Ruth as she joined me . |
| 17 | ‘ She 's still cross with me and the atmosphere is quite unpleasant , so I asked Iris if I could join you . |
| 18 | The following morning I asked Mum if I could spend the day with Miss Louise . |
| 19 | I asked Mum if I could go on the Pill . |
| 20 | I asked Ray whether people 's fish-buying habits had changed in these hard times . |
| 21 | I asked Ivy if she owed anything to Greek tragedy . |
| 22 | I asked Fearnley whether he knew any of the details of Brian Harley 's contract with Supersight . |
| 23 | Later , I asked Alec if he liked being perched so high . |
| 24 | I asked Ben if Lewis likes you and then , er all I got from his brother all the way home is do you like Lewis Jess ? , |
| 25 | I asked Cal if it did n't make her feel like a baby . |
| 26 | First thing this morning we were lying in bed and I asked Polly whether she was real , but all she said was ‘ What the f— are you doing in my bed ? ’ so the jury 's still out on that one . |
| 27 | ‘ I asked Arthur whether we were quite safe having our ball tonight , and he assured me we are . |
| 28 | That 's why I asked Sister if I could slip up here to see her . ’ |
| 29 | I asked Dick if there were any surprises for him about the aircraft and he mentioned that he was pleasantly surprised that this Allison machine ran so smoothly and that the power band was as wide and it was . |
| 30 | I asked Frankie when I had pushed through to him . |