Example sentences of "[pers pn] [det] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I said to her , ‘ I know what you are going to say — you 're going to tell me that the mother of X committed suicide . ’ |
| 2 | the park Then you love me half the night |
| 3 | Like most of us , it took me half the trip to work out what they were ! |
| 4 | In this bleak kitchen it 's the dead of night , but around me half the block will not yet be asleep . |
| 5 | Well , mind you June do n't know what the hell she 's ringing me half the time , because she bloody rings and , half of time it 's |
| 6 | He loaned me half the cash to buy it , so he wanted the money back . ’ |
| 7 | " She 's left me some money and all her furniture and things , " Sara went on , " but she 's only left me half the house . " |
| 8 | I 'll fill that in as well , Northern Hydraulics because I 'm paying er hydraulics prices for er seals when we can get them half the price off them . |
| 9 | The cost of the charter to Aru had long since been settled : Yong would pay them half the sum now , and his relations would pay the balance once we and the cargo had safely reached Aru . |
| 10 | It took them half the time to get Kevin out to the Murphy cart than it took to get Liam sobered up again and it was Nellie who finally drove the cart away with its very full load . |
| 11 | They had people to do that for them half the time , there was no need for it , but it was as if I had to earn my keep , I had to repay what they 'd done for me , with the people that worked there laughing at me behind my back , wondering where I 'd come from , thinking maybe I was no better than them . |
| 12 | I know , we used to drive round in them half the time ! |
| 13 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 14 | oche I all the time |
| 15 | I was behind 'er all the time . ’ |
| 16 | She plays on yours all the time about her , your Dynamike |
| 17 | ‘ Look lady , I 've given ya all the rope I could and I guess you jus ' plumb hung yourself . |
| 18 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |
| 19 | How could she leave you half the house ? " asked Robert Simpson incredulously . |
| 20 | He had to ring up that and it gives you all the phone numbers of all the police stations in Bristol . |
| 21 | I will bless those who bless you , and him who curses you I will curse ; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves ’ ( 12.1–3 ) . |
| 22 | Alan got a message for you all the stewards and secretaries within Pilkingtons and also the A E U , M S F and the T & G thanks very much for the initiative you 've in getting us all together and the initiative you 've took in getting us part of the European set-up company Pilkingtons , at this present time are very negative . |
| 23 | Just thought I 'd give you all the benefit of my expertise with a 1–1 prediction for tonight 's game . |
| 24 | So the emphasis now is more on the people themselves , basically Neighbourhood Watch is your scheme , it 's not a police thing , we support it , we pay for the hall tonight , we pay for the signs for the street and we give you all the literature free , but it is your scheme and it 's how you want it to be . |
| 25 | Finally , have with you all the papers to which reference may be made at the meeting . |
| 26 | ‘ If you came over I could give you all the assignments . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll give you all the money tomorrow , and let you buy what you like , if you 'll take it . ’ |
| 28 | I 'll bring you all the money I can . |
| 29 | ROS : ( Hurt , desperately ingratiating ) I-I bet you all the money I 've got the year of my birth doubled is an odd number . |
| 30 | Keep up the good work of entertaining your fans on court Steffi ; we know you can do it ; your fans are behind you all the way . |