Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of a family of six and me elder brother was me bro me dad had a little business in the keys in and er they were hard times and me elder brother we used to go and work for him because me dad said he must and er from , after school I used to go and perhaps do the errands or a bit of filing , the odd jobs and all that sort of thing and I grew up with locks and keys and files from twelve , even before I left school . |
| 2 | But the new game she had invented of punishing one or both of them each time they were beastly to her made her life more or less bearable . |
| 3 | If you need glasses or contact lenses to reach the eyesight standard , you must wear them each time you drive . |
| 4 | Now give me that blaster you did n't bring with you . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If you do n't get me that money you 'll be looking for another ship , ’ she reminded him fiercely . |
| 6 | Sadie was tellin' me that bloke they ‘ ung last year fer killin' that shopkeeper over in Stepney used ter be one o' the crowd 'er Billy 's gettin' wiv . ’ |
| 7 | " And if you are giving me that appointment I will go . |
| 8 | In fact , now that I come to think of it , I have a feeling it may have been Lord Darlington himself who made that particular remark to me that time he called me into his study some two months after that exchange with Miss Kenton outside the billiard room . |
| 9 | yeah , but some of the letters have come , in fact they sent me that catalogue you know |
| 10 | The one who left me that brooch you always liked . |
| 11 | Same as them posh blokes what come here — they all want to be caned . |
| 12 | Huh , I think I had such a good night , you know what you 've bloody well done he said you 've got up he said before you was ready he said , you knew you wanted to get on he said , and you 've got up he said with the intentions he said , you had them bloody cakes he said before you had breakfast , well I had to with her coming |
| 13 | Cos it 's them bloody things we 've got ! |
| 14 | So if you took them that day you 'd be going while you were on duty ? |
| 15 | Three of them went into a shop , in a baker 's shop , why I was n't with them that day I do n't know cos we was always together , our four . |
| 16 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 17 | If , instead of following them that way you follow them a bit further north and follow them north of the Himalayas , then get smaller and greyer and paler , and the two ends of the loop meet in China and behave as distinct species . |
| 18 | But I 'd forgotten that you know , when we were wee kids , and you used to take them that night you know . |
| 19 | What is it about them that dissatisfies you ? |
| 20 | She 's like one of them underwater swimmers I seen on telly — you know , all slow and graceful like . |
| 21 | Norton 's 13,000 shareholders , most of them private individuals who invested out of loyalty to the name and hope for its resurrection , are stuck : they can neither sell their shares nor can they vote on MacDonald 's tenure . |
| 22 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 23 | Nigel was sufficiently worried about my feeble attempts towards the top of the ascent that he got below me each time I had to turn and pushed me forward into the slope . |
| 24 | When the tide rises , cold waters flood in , bringing with them hard-fighting sea-trout which dash through the brackish , salt waters , sending waves swirling and anglers ' hearts racing . |
| 25 | But them , them old blankets we had some because we need them when they come , I fold 'em |
| 26 | with me wrong hand I do n't told you that did n't I , I was well shagged with someone fucking swim left hand |
| 27 | It could be that you 're giving them some stuff that we already know or it could be that you 're giving them some stuff which is far too advanced for them , they do n't have the basics there . |
| 28 | but if I 'd have give it , had to give them some water they 'd have done much better but I , like everybody else we kept hoping it were gon na rain , but ! |
| 29 | We introduced ourselves and told them we had brought them some food which they could share with their friends . |
| 30 | If you make a mistake , it 's just not possible to go back and retrieve it , and for a selector to say , ‘ Well , I do n't think this person 's made a very good case , I 'm sure if we gave them another chance they would make a better one . ’ |