Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who are directly affected by policies , the public , may be crudely divided into unorganized and isolated public — who pay taxes , receive benefits , seek planning permission , visit doctors and so on — and the organized public , the organizations upon whom policies have an impact . |
| 2 | The maid had retired , tossing her head at the thought of such low people as them gyppos having the sauce to interrupt the master at his supper . |
| 3 | I mean erm them solicitors sent a letter to him we had a copy come here but erm , he 's got ta pay her fifty pound a week . |
| 4 | During my term as manager I have made few friends and my enemies stalk the boardroom in ever increasing numbers . |
| 5 | ON Saturday 4th January 1992 I took three of my sons to watch the Harlequins v Bath match at the Stoop Memorial Ground . |
| 6 | Well , I wo n't have any of my sons going the same way . ’ |
| 7 | My activities had no goal and no aspiration , and I had no competitors , which meant that I rapidly acquired the confidence of the leadership of the Labour Party . |
| 8 | There were endless ways in which he could have made my activities seem a nuisance , positively damaging to our marriage , or — which would have been worst of all — merely trivial . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman may have noticed that my proposals increase the independence of Her Majesty 's chief inspector . |
| 10 | My notes showed the mathematical and geometrical proofs . |
| 11 | The only time my Oscars show a behavioural change is when they are separated from the shark , when they sulk and retreat unto the plec 's cave . |
| 12 | They all just go past me with their baked beans and their fish fingers and washing powder and chocolate biscuits , and my fingers punch the right figures on the till and I do n't see them at all . |
| 13 | Words came into my ears and my fingers made the appropriate movements . |
| 14 | While Lynn and Thomas and Vicky and Dennis chattered , I sat back and let my fingers do the talking . |
| 15 | My fingers explored the rough crinkly texture of lichen , the fragile feel of flower petals , the coolness of young leaves and the soft springy sponginess of mosses . |
| 16 | A skylight above the street door was closed and out of reach , but I tried to reach it anyway and was surprised when my fingers touched the ledge . |
| 17 | It 's against my rules to use a calculator ! |
| 18 | Perhaps my attempts to undermine the managers credibility are coming to fruition at last : - ) ) ) |
| 19 | I felt that I might be able to apply what I learned — if indeed I learned anything — to my attempts to reconstruct the life of Elsie . |
| 20 | Needless to say the revelations made by John Stalker ( 1988 ) were also less than welcome to the service , and all around I heard my contemporaries condemn the fact that he had gone public . |
| 21 | ( Balvinder Singh , in a fit of unusual prudishness , had long since refused to come on my trips to see the eunuchs in Old Delhi : ‘ Mr William . |
| 22 | When one of my teenagers spent a month huddled in the park with a crowd of deadpan Gothic posers , I radiated white-hot hostility . |
| 23 | No , my clients get a big enough giggle as it is . |
| 24 | Who were extremely keen to locate in this county , everything was right for them , Mr Allenby 's borough had the site , my clients had the site should I say , and erm but we lost it to Humberside because it was not possible for either Harrogate or ourselves to look them in the eye and say yes we can guarantee planning consent . |
| 25 | I felt my shoulders relax a little , thinking of the tranquil week ahead . |
| 26 | It looked like — my eyes scanned the list of strange names , wishing they were illustrated — yes , it looked like the ear of an elephant : dieffenbachia or elephant 's ear . |
| 27 | One fine and gloomy night , while taking my body for a walk past many soothingly whispery hedgerow growths , my eyes noticed a bungalow porch light which dictated the policy of activity in its immediate region . |
| 28 | I closed my eyes to inspect the patterns , but only the burning after-image remained , fading like the glow on the metal plate . |
| 29 | I was climbing in low gear , my eyes searching the vehicle and the bank behind it for any sign of movement . |
| 30 | On their way down my eyes spied a policeman on the horizon . |