Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would we feel is certainly in a coordinating way and if somebody for instance er say you 've got a husband and wife living together , one of them suddenly becomes handicapped in a particular way , what we are planning to do is trying to develop programmes which will enable the carer to have to go on training at the County Council 's expense to enable them to look after somebody in their own homes and it 's a type of thing we want to develop . |
| 2 | I do n't know about checking and balancing , I just says balancing . |
| 3 | Have I no bays to crown it ? |
| 4 | ‘ 'E always seems to 'ave a lot ter say fer 'imself . ‘ |
| 5 | Certainly she rarely fails to surprise as she faces up serenely to various situations which would disorientate people with much more sophistication . |
| 6 | To accept them all would place an intolerable strain on her health , but she rarely fails to help a charity . |
| 7 | The carefree quality disappears when she shyly tries to tell the Tutor how fond she has become of him , and when she discovers Natalia and the Tutor in each other 's arms , she loses all inhibitions to denounce them . |
| 8 | Er Madam Speaker , I understand the position you ma you the point you make about er ministers det er determining whether they 're going to make a statement by an oral statement or by a written parliament question , but surely the speaker does have power if he or she so determines to summon er a minister here and particularly if there 's pressure in parliament to require a minister to come here and make a statement , that must be right . |
| 9 | Now , here in Devon , she suddenly wants to know all about why a fish is oily near the spine and how you cut and salt it . |
| 10 | When he loses patience and wants to adjourn to ‘ some private place ’ she suddenly rises to verse : ‘ If you were born to honour , show it now ’ ( 92ff . ) . |
| 11 | Be understanding if he or she suddenly starts wetting the bed or crying for attention following a bad dream in the night . |
| 12 | But she obviously intends to seduce you . ’ |
| 13 | By contrast Frances Spalding 's final chapter , ‘ The Modern Face ’ , is surprisingly tentative for such an experienced writer : she obviously contemplates deserting the more endangered of Bloomsbury species the rank amateur as opposed to the merely amateurish but in the end mounts a token defence , and so damns them with faint art history . |
| 14 | She obviously wants to graduate to serious emotional drama , but all she does is turn interesting subjects ( in this case the buried feminist history of women 's baseball ) into mush . |
| 15 | The affection I feel for you personally has led me , if anything , to understate it . |
| 16 | Our parents live some distance away , she only gets to see them every few weeks , but I 'm close to hand , I 'm here to listen . |
| 17 | She only has to wear an outfit once for it to become an instant fashion trend . |
| 18 | Now she 's on powerful drugs to suppress the problem … and she only has to cope with a one or two fits each day . |
| 19 | Fortunately , she has saved a large deposit to put down on a flat so she only has to borrow £45,000 . |
| 20 | She only has to express a hint of yearning for a food , fad or fantasy for her fans to start racing after them too . |
| 21 | Now , if Tamsin is all right , whatever she may be doing , she only has to phone her mother . |
| 22 | She only needs to make a token 1500 metres or 3,000 metres appearance in the main trials meeting , in Birmingham on June 27 and 28 , to claim her Olympic team place alongside world champion Liz McColgan . |
| 23 | losing , she only wants to show off . |
| 24 | " Well , that 's very hypocritical of you , " said Clelia , " because you know quite well that she only wants to have James so as not to hurt your feelings . |
| 25 | Trouble is she only wants to buy it off you cheaply you see , for |
| 26 | The use of the plural is pregnant with implications that evidence she alone has seen shows that among Sotheby 's staff not just Peter Wilson had a share in the treasure . |
| 27 | So what happens if a woman wishes to have her own identity and wear clothes which she alone has chosen ? |
| 28 | Lily meanwhile works for the Mob , placing bets to shorten the odds at racetracks ; when she impulsively decides to re-enter her son 's life , after an absence of eight years , just in time to save it . |
| 29 | She at first refuses to help him , suspecting a trap to catch her out in witchery , but as the clerk , Wilekin , persists she finally agrees to solve the problem , accepting twenty shillings in payment . |
| 30 | She somehow manages to put invitations so cleverly that I can hardly refuse them — will I advise her about a job move , will I try out a new restaurant with her before she entertains a client there ? |