Example sentences of "[pron] [det] [verb] [pers pn] " 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 | I 'm , I 'm now erm having you , having you told me this having you said that , you just look at that |
| 9 | No I can manage on my own thank you . |
| 10 | ‘ Miss Abbott will tell you that I do n't even possess one of my own to entertain her in . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The eyebrows fit over my own to disfigure me . |
| 13 | Nothing much to interest him . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was her that invited me to play for a keep fit class . |
| 18 | Certain cultural distinctions were breaking down and in the anxiety which this provoked we can read the effects of tar-reaching historical change . |
| 19 | Thus perhaps the fact that a number of legal cases have been brought is indicative of some parents ' resistance to the subservient , rather than partnership , role which some say they are forced to assume by the Act ( regardless of exhortations to LEAs to extend parental involvement ) . |
| 20 | John Smith 's devotion to the cause of exchange rate stability is not the symbol of virtue which many mistake it for . |
| 21 | In this case the Bill concerned an issue of conscience on which many felt it would be inappropriate for Parliament to divide on party lines . |
| 22 | Being asked to write stories that would distinguish an idiosyncratic , individualistic and , in some ways , rather odd group of people from the militaristic , regimented and brutal régime they were fighting against , was a challenge to which many found they could rise . |
| 23 | These dangers can be seen both in structuralism and in other approaches to literature which all thought they were avoiding them . |
| 24 | Although barbel are so stupid when they are feeding ravenously , they are not so stupid they can not learn a few tricks of their own to enable them to feed in the face of apparent danger . |
| 25 | Even when an outright transfer is made , problems can also arise , as women on their own find it difficult to meet the mortgage repayments . |
| 26 | Knitters were pressed to rent the stocking frames and those who owned their own found it hard to get work when times were less busy . |
| 27 | Trades unionism , functioning in its proper field , was an asset to the whole community , but when it was used by ambitious men for their own ends it was a danger . |
| 28 | Yeah , they played well the year before they held their own see they 've got all the |
| 29 | Er but er they devised various ways on their own to help them with these things , you know , they er I do n't know exactly what it was called but you you would see a Maybe a riveter in below the in below the boat er doing the shell , in below the boat , and he would have a Like a hammer , a a an arm that was rigged up for him er to give him an assistance with the the machine , to hold the machine up to You know to let him work with the machine . |
| 30 | Since each department is responsible for its own buying it is difficult for the store to buy in bulk , and thus cheaply |