Example sentences of "[pron] [det] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , well , you could have told me that to tell her ! |
| 2 | ‘ My heart misgave me when I saw his livery at Parfois , for Isambard is close and confidential with him , and sure they had some business between them that bodes us no good here in Wales . ’ |
| 3 | Can you say what it is about them that threatens you ? |
| 4 | Before sending the jury out yesterday , Mr Justice Turner told them that to convict they must be sure an ordinary person would have regarded the means by which Ward obtained the cash as dishonest . |
| 5 | What is it about them that makes them stand out from the rest ? |
| 6 | There 's something about them that makes me want to see them glazed with passion — ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It 's the thought of being in the middle of them that makes me come over all shaky . ’ |
| 8 | There is furthermore an atmosphere of harshness and unrest about them that makes one realize how much closer to the spirit of Cézanne Braque 's contemporary work is . |
| 9 | I 'm , I 'm now erm having you , having you told me this having you said that , you just look at that |
| 10 | Would you like to do me some do something for me ? |
| 11 | No I can manage on my own thank you . |
| 12 | as my own tugs my sleeve |
| 13 | ‘ Miss Abbott will tell you that I do n't even possess one of my own to entertain her in . ’ |
| 14 | But from my own researches it became plain to me that she was very much a person of her times , as compared with Beatrice Webb who became so much a critic of her times . |
| 15 | The eyebrows fit over my own to disfigure me . |
| 16 | I told him that this bizarre gift had frightened me , made me feel vulnerable ; and that I had felt compelled to develop a magical system of my own to prevent my hyperactive visual memory from destroying me altogether . |
| 17 | [ Balliol ] pressed me much to have my name inserted in the new Commissn for the Peace , but I absolutely declined it . |
| 18 | Morse had looked quickly round the flat but had found nothing much to engage his interest . |
| 19 | Bernadette had asked for a sign saying simply ‘ quality ’ which was very appropriate for her appearance but did nothing much to advertise what she was advising on . |
| 20 | Nothing much to interest him . |
| 21 | Unlike Kyle , Mallaig has nothing much to commend it apart from being a busy fishing port and railhead which is , of course , its sole raison d'etre . |
| 22 | Again like other fields of sociology , these approaches can be conve-niently located within competing traditions which each owe their orientation to one of the three great ‘ founding fathers ’ of the discipline of sociology : Karl Marx , Emile Durkheim and Max Weber . |
| 23 | In order to do this ESCA divides the country into 16 regions which each runs its own mini tournament . |
| 24 | On the other hand , the behaviour of the political parties is itself endogenous and we have to explain the way in which each chooses its position on the political spectrum . |
| 25 | The Security Council debate had been preceded by a series of statements by and an exchange of letters between de Klerk and Mandela in which each stated their terms for the resumption of constitutional talks . |
| 26 | April 30 : visit by Prime Minister Popov to NATO headquarters and statement that Bulgaria would not sign a security treaty with the Soviet Union which that precluded it from joining other alliances . |
| 27 | The extent , however , to which that marks them off from what are typically thought of as more ‘ objective ’ features of the world in which we live depends on how far one thinks that has a character independent of any form of sentient experience . |
| 28 | It was her that invited me to play for a keep fit class . |
| 29 | Now , as a consequence of my eight marginal years on a drug squad , visits to the United Nations , and the three years at university reading a subject which few knew anything about , but would be willing to dismiss along with all of the social sciences , I was in danger of being irrevocably cast into the mould of being a ‘ college man ’ or academic . |
| 30 | He poured himself another to keep her company . |