Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thass wot I call livin' if you mus ' know . |
| 2 | In thee I defy all men , their worst hates , |
| 3 | Loosing to Coventry and then Charlton in the space of a couple of weeks made just about everyone I knew suicidal — and all cause of Brendan Ormsby failing to kick the ball out into touch on his own dead ball line . |
| 4 | Do n't tell me I imagined that too . |
| 5 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 6 | And , did continue to get professional help after that , but I think she was actually one of the factors that sent me further down , by telling me I looked well ! |
| 7 | But I do remember that in every room he showed me I made sure I was near to the door , the safest point of exit if he tried anything . |
| 8 | They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet , and I 'd got tremendous scarring of the gut . |
| 9 | ‘ They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet … ‘ |
| 10 | when we us the last two and that one exploded on me I had this and it goes and exploded all over me and went over |
| 11 | ‘ I hit my head on the kerb when I fell and when I went to hospital two days later they told me I had severe bruising of the brain , ’ said Walter after his Kempton win on Mithl Al Hawa . |
| 12 | Behind me I heard one of the elderly male residents say to his visitor : ‘ Oh God , it 's her . ’ |
| 13 | Behind me I heard two more shots . |
| 14 | They tell me I know more than them . |
| 15 | Within me I feel dreadful ghosts and crimes locked within my bones , knotted into my very entrails . |
| 16 | and er , she said oh yes please and I said fifteen minutes you know , she said , since I 've seen the Solicitor I feel a different person , I said you look different , you look ten years younger , she said everybody 's telling me I look ten years younger . |
| 17 | Neighbours and friends keep telling me I look slim … . |
| 18 | Now me I think that 's sneaky . |
| 19 | Erm the point that you put to me I think two or three questions ago wa was related as I understood it to the the alignment and the network of the lanes . |
| 20 | and he made it , you see I mean i it cost over twenty years ago told me I think those were too small . |
| 21 | Touching my shoulder she said to me I want all the ones , all the ones . |
| 22 | as I say because of my health and one thing and another you could n't just and he , and he was really good he was and explained everything to me I say that |
| 23 | ‘ There is nothing I like more than having the house filled with young people . |
| 24 | There was nothing I felt inclined to do , no action I wished to take . |
| 25 | There 's nothing I hate more than going to an exhibition where there 's nobody there whom I know and there 's nothing there which I like … |
| 26 | ‘ I … there 's nothing I want more … ’ |
| 27 | There 's nothing I want more than that my daughter should grow up to be the sort of person who gets along with everybody . ’ |
| 28 | In spite of my enthusiasm and my growing sense of self-importance , one con keeps cropping up and is finally given life by a fellow banker from Chase Manhattan , whom I sit next to on the flight into Kuala Lumpur . |
| 29 | I became a socialist there because while I did not agree with everything said by the Marxists I met and with whom I became friendly , they gave me a language for understanding the painful separations of class . |
| 30 | As Anne-marie de Waal Malefijt , from whom I borrow these examples , wickedly observes : ‘ If interpreters from similar cultural backgrounds can not agree upon the meanings of symbols , how different must be the symbolic meanings assigned by people with different cultural experience ! ’ |