Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But ultimately the test is whether the buyer could fairly and reasonably refuse to accept the physical goods proffered to him on the ground that their failure to correspond with what was said about them makes them goods of a different kind from those he had agreed to buy . |
| 2 | ( Princes ) do not have the right to say that they find the books dedicated to them atrocious or that the music which they play for them scorches their ears … |
| 3 | They can be planted anywhere in the general scheme , mixed with herbaceous perennials , annuals , bulbs , shrubs or roses , provided the site chosen for them supplies their requirements , as with any garden plant . |
| 4 | Looking after her gives me something to do . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Part of me hates him , ’ he admitted , ‘ and the other part of me hates myself for feeling jealous of such a fantastic guy . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Part of me hates him , ’ he admitted , ‘ and the other part of me hates myself for feeling jealous of such a fantastic guy . ’ |
| 7 | Gable is honest enough to acknowledge that there 's some truth in the saying that no publicity is bad publicity : ‘ The cynical and worldly part of me tells me it 's been wonderful because the production must be the most talked about in 20 years of dance . |
| 8 | AMERICANS will tell you anything , says Michael Palin , and half of me believes him . |
| 9 | One of them gets his timing wrong . |
| 10 | Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom . |
| 11 | So with that if one of them goes you just have to buy that as an element just slot it it comes it 's like a light bulb . |
| 12 | Each one of them tells us about a different aspect of the creature . |
| 13 | This eclectic mixture soon wins him a following amongst the rest of the neighbourhood 's equally disturbed teenagers but when one of them takes his exhortations to action a little too far and kills himself , the authorities move in . |
| 14 | Each has its proper sphere , but in course of time each of them extends its jurisdiction , so that the same matters may often be dealt with indifferently by any one of them . |
| 15 | But now one of them catches my eye because I recognize the handwriting . |
| 16 | It is generally characteristic of arms races , including human ones , that although all would be better off if none of them escalated , so long as one of them escalates none can afford not to . |
| 17 | ‘ Can they be so hideous in appearance the mere sight of them drives you mad ? ’ |
| 18 | Besides , the only people who live beyond here are that Elizabeth and the farmer , and neither of them strikes me as the riotous type . ’ |
| 19 | One of them turns her tired beam on us . |
| 20 | The point dogs catch him and one of them nips him on the leg — take that for being more popular with the boss . |
| 21 | He says ; Once one of them says we will go with him then they will all go because they will stick together but I was very suprised with the ammount of people that go . |
| 22 | Four British Muslims freed by Saddam Hussein from captivity in Iraq , have just arrived back in England , the wife of one of them says she 's overjoyed at the news . |
| 23 | he says , he says I 've put ten pounds ' worth of petrol in the car every week and there 's not one of them says there 's a couple of pound towards the petrol or nowt |
| 24 | But if either of them imagines they can force my hand , they much mistake the matter ! |
| 25 | Now one of them seizes me , and it is n't a man , it 's an octopus with claws — it holds me in its tentacles , its talons dig into my flesh and my blood drips out through the holes in my flesh and my blood is n't red human blood , it 's black like tar , like drops of liquid evil … |
| 26 | One of them kisses me as if I had won a prize for the most amusing and far-fetched story of the evening . |
| 27 | One of them shares his thoughts with his companions . |
| 28 | But the possibility of them convinces me that his discretion to refuse is not absolute or unfettered . |
| 29 | There are arguments for all possible positions , but none of them convinces us for long ( see chapters 1 and 5 ) . |
| 30 | They know which boy each of them has her eye on , and if there is any clash of interest , they will deal with it in advance , too . |