Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the £ dipped again on foreign exchange markets yesterday , the AA and travel agents advised Britons to buy travellers cheques in the local currency , take foreign money with them or use credit cards . |
| 2 | When you fill in a tax return you will have to declare all sources of income and the Inland Revenue will ignore them or deduct tax as necessary . |
| 3 | Now , they would be thought obscene public perception has changed and understood that animals are sentient beings and that we demean our humanity if we are cruel to them or permit cruelty . |
| 4 | When the abbot was found , he was forced to join them or face execution . |
| 5 | Artegall will not confront them or allow Talus to flail them , and the book ends not with Artegall 's triumph but his return to Faerie Court with these two ugly figures taunting him . |
| 6 | She can not guess at his anxieties or burdens because she has never encouraged him to talk about them or found time to stop whatever she was doing and listen . |
| 7 | Ye would n't believe it , me that reads Playto like a scholar . |
| 8 | The 1979 Working Party on vibration organized at Link convinced me that amplified vibration has great potential for some ( but not all ) profoundly deafened people . |
| 9 | But so is that part of me that feels alien in this country , lonely behind my wall of defences , inarticulate in my deepest pain . |
| 10 | However , Mr Summerchild has persuaded me that taking part in a discussion of this nature might lie outside Mrs Padmore 's job description , and could involve us in difficulties with her union … |
| 11 | ‘ Woe unto them that join house to house , that lay field to field , till there be no place , that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's absolute piffle to say that smacking children teaches them that using violence is OK . |
| 13 | ‘ You will wed me and become Lord of the Wyrmberg . ’ |
| 14 | She shook her head , the dark hair glinting with moisture , her eyes turned to me and searching mine . |
| 15 | The hand started pushing through the window at the pile of books , and I knew it would find me and catch hold of me again . |
| 16 | Yet despite the pain and dyspnoea , she would fuss over me and make tea for me with her best crockery . |
| 17 | Many years ago — back in the early '70s , I think — Burt Reynolds called up Warren Beatty and me and formed Marriage Anonymous on the theory that if any of the three of us got tempted to get married we 'd ring up the others and we 'd go round and make them drunk . |
| 18 | Because she [ the new maths teacher ] did n't know me , she did n't have any confidence in me … but because she did n't have any confidence in me , I did n't have any confidence in myself , and that is the thing that really makes me regret changing schools … at my first school all the teachers knew me and had confidence in me . |
| 19 | I asked Jesus to help us , and to forgive Jack and me and to make Dad happy . |
| 20 | I was emotionally devastated , but I was not going back with the intention of finding a man to take care of me , to pay my bills , to embellish me and play papa as Helmut had . |
| 21 | So weighty and at times contradictory are the findings and recommendations that David Lange has established another committee to sift through them and recommend government action in the reform of educational administration . |
| 22 | More topically Smith drives home the absurdity of the present British water industry installing meters in households and then setting up a huge bureaucracy to monitor them and gather payment — a move that will make water much more expensive ( and thus more attractive to the private companies which will eventually provide it ) . |
| 23 | The traveller may thereafter accept the terms of the offer , or reject them and seek accommodation elsewhere . |
| 24 | If the terms of redemption merely provided for their redemption at par , their holders would be highly vulnerable ; for if interest rates fell since the date of issue it would clearly pay the company to redeem them and to borrow money at a lower rate of interest than the fixed dividend . |
| 25 | Then he prophesied to them and made flesh and sinews come around them . |
| 26 | And looked after them and er after them and took pride i i in to have them in the best condition . |
| 27 | And it explains to them why has come out screaming at them and screaming abuse at them . |
| 28 | The procedures which must be followed before a trial in the High Court or county court should be used by the parties to expose the real area of difference between them and concentrate attention upon it . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , I 'll get a written report from them and let Management have it . |
| 30 | Asking questions about objects , classifying them and deriving information from close observation can significantly deepen understanding . |