Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fancy me legs earnin' that amount . |
| 2 | ‘ Playground language ’ I used to call it when my sons explored that path . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think my views have much effect . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I believe that my proposals strike that balance . |
| 5 | My fingers feel all tingly , but it do n't half feel good to stick them in the water . |
| 6 | When confronted by The People she said : ‘ I 've been instructed by my employers to refer all matters to them . |
| 7 | The introductory chapters of my books contain much advice which , if heeded , would help to minimise the dangers . |
| 8 | ‘ My lads did all that could be asked of them , especially as a couple of them had to work all night in order to get time off to play . |
| 9 | Most of my clients say that . |
| 10 | They also provide us with , and my designers love this I mean they g go over there and they come back and they plaster these things all over , all over their design rooms and it looks like a Paris design house . |
| 11 | My shoulders brushed both walls at once , so I twisted slightly to cut out the sound . |
| 12 | ‘ I was staring at it and wishing it to tip and then my eyes went all hot and funny and some sort of power came out of them and the glass just toppled over . ’ |
| 13 | My eyes go all funny , I ca n't concentrate ’ . |
| 14 | My eyes feel all hot and my head 's prickly like someone 's pulled my hair . |
| 15 | heck , oh my knees face each other , it 's sick |
| 16 | My legs get all tingly after a bit on account of how I 'm sitting , but I do n't move . |
| 17 | I could not see what was happening as I was falling upsidedown and my legs obscured all view of the aircraft above me . |
| 18 | I remember very well from the moment that I fell from the boat and felt my feet strike some soft substance . |
| 19 | During the past seven years I 've worn fabric and plastic boots so my feet needed some encouragement to weather leather again . |
| 20 | My grandparents and my grandchildren have this in common . |
| 21 | ‘ My parents left enough money to make sure I went to the same school as Elise , but I was never the academic type — too fond of games . |
| 22 | My parents collected all their copies of Wimpey News and we have back numbers going back to the 1940s . |
| 23 | I had an inkling of what was going on but my parents kept most of it from me |
| 24 | I always wondered why my parents believed all this nonsense about Father Christmas — I was always very sceptical . |
| 25 | still had no prospects of employment and I do n't think er , er my parents had any erm particular ideas and my father who worked for erm Roads and Bridges Department was speaking to the Chief Clerk at that time , that was , er , his name was in fact and erm he was a very sympathetic character and er he said he 'd have a word with erm with somebody in the County Council and erm see if they could find me employment as a typist and erm using the argument of course that the Education Department had up to that time at the R N C erm paid the balance of the fees for my course , erm I could just mention to you that the scholarship was worth forty pounds a year fee . |
| 26 | My parents loved each other very much , and I learnt from the example of their love . |
| 27 | ‘ I just wish I 'd kept my flies fastened that day , ’ he said . |
| 28 | In these days of concern for the environment I am unwilling to use peat ( though I did try it some years ago and found my plants made little headway anyway ) . |
| 29 | I did not aim at making my style ‘ Italian Gothic ’ my ideas ran much more upon the French to which for some years I had devoted my chief study . |
| 30 | My apologies did little to assuage the situation and I was informed that the federal government had ruled against allowing key production personnel to enlist in the armed forces . |