Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John looked at me I says I says I 've got enough bloody debt without keeping pair of you twats in cigs . |
| 2 | I says well if you do n't smoke them I says me and Maggie 'll get them for you |
| 3 | And when the girl came with them I says I think I 'll take them all if you can them . |
| 4 | Oh god I it dates me ! |
| 5 | Yes I I would agree with that but I wondered , I think perhaps it should be the finance committee , I mean cos I understood that most of these these items are contained within the existing budget , because I mean the individual committees do have have the power to the monies within their own , and I it has it I would agree with Peter that if we have gone over and above the that the committee were working to but I understood that that was not the case , so I . |
| 6 | I use my clients to actually me expand my business which I means I can give you more of my time . |
| 7 | Her bedspread is frilled pink with white flowers , and the first things you notice on entering her room are a full-length mirror and an exercise bike , which she says she rarely uses . |
| 8 | She wwent to the High Court in August and won the riught to sue for malicious falsehood , a rare procedure , which she says she has to use because she ca n't afford libel proceedings . |
| 9 | A magic circle in which she locks our destiny to this increase of tenderness which renders this work human , moving and unchallengeable . |
| 10 | Mira imagines what Zab must be typing into her word-processor ; soon we are reading Zab 's text in which she imagines what her brother Jip is typing , and so forth , through their mother Paula , the playwright Perry Hupsos , his characters Decibel and Julian , and finally back to Mira . |
| 11 | The scene in which she breaks her vow , encourages Diomedes ' advances , and gives him Troilus 's sleeve , is extraordinary . |
| 12 | They include the 6th Lord Brownlow 's diary of the crisis , draft statements by Wallis Simpson and letters in which she calls herself ‘ Public Character Number One ’ . |
| 13 | The interval between her leaving Edgcote and meeting Freemantle can not have been great , a matter of months at most , unless Leapor 's depression was vastly disproportionate to the space in which she describes it . |
| 14 | Where family planning is not widely practised , as in the overwhelming majority of developing countries , the age at which a woman first marries or enters a conjugal union determines in large measure the age at which she bears her first child . |
| 15 | I have my man and a bent old crone from the village who drinks my whisky which she thinks I do n't notice . |
| 16 | Dr Sue Jennings , a pioneer in dramatherapy , described how an infertile woman may learn to identify sorrow and rage against the sterile womb which , every month , rejects the fertilized egg : how she can move from passive grief to weeping rage in which she pounds her belly with her hands , railing against its refusal to give a home to the child she desperately wants . |
| 17 | Elean Thomas talked to her about her new book Soweto Stories , in which she documents her people 's unwavering resistance in the face of the shameful brutality , personal struggle , and systematic humiliation , a part of everyday life under apartheid . |
| 18 | Whereupon Judah asks for her favours , for which she takes his signet , cord and staff as a pledge for payment — so that , when pregnant , she is able to prove that he is the father of the child and so legitimize her twins and perpetuate the line of her husband . |
| 19 | more or , is more or less is realized in a dream she has , just before she leaves Thornfield Hall , erm in which she dreams she 's lying in the red room again |
| 20 | A silver-washed fritillary butterfly dipped between the tufts of grass to find the violet leaves on which she lays her eggs . |
| 21 | Her irresponsible Flora , who sees herself as ‘ the soul of kindness ’ , and indeed is adored by people who see her in a very different light from that in which she sees herself , is ( or would be , if she were allowed ) catastrophic in her influence on other lives . |
| 22 | In 1977 she published an autobiographical sketch entitled ‘ Self-Confrontation and the Writer ’ in which she posits her authorial identity as a separate person whom she calls ‘ John ’ . |
| 23 | She does not become criminally liable merely by assisting her husband to escape punishment for a crime which she knows him to have committed ; and it is only within certain limits that husband and wife are competent , and within narrower limits that they are compellable , to give evidence against one another , in criminal proceedings . |
| 24 | Er , Mrs Grant er , absolutely spoilt her own girls which she knows you know |
| 25 | Phena thinks recent developments entitle her to a newer , bigger house , which she expects me to pay for , with pleasure , despite the fact that the wedding is already running into a fortune . |
| 26 | I can argue that Greenfield does not make this explicit because she is taking for granted conventions that she herself has learnt in the western education system and which she expects her readers to share . |
| 27 | There is quiet anger in this poem against a life in which her talents are wasted ; yet the manner in which she disowns her own struggle so late in her life is surprising . |
| 28 | The main plot of Mansfield Park , on the other hand , is that of a young girl called Fanny Price and her development along the obstacles in which she finds she has to overcome in life which eventually takes her from a stage of immaturity to a stage of maturity . |
| 29 | In the paragraph of which she complains I was briefly putting each side 's case as outlined to the inquiry . |
| 30 | Each carries a wand of shining metal which she spins on her fingertips , tosses playfully into the air , and with which she interweaves her body in most intricate gyrations … |