Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them turns her tired beam on us . |
| 2 | ‘ Would you really , a man of your enormous wealth , sue someone like me for a sum that to you is little more than pocket-money , but to me represents my very livelihood ? |
| 3 | ‘ Can they be so hideous in appearance the mere sight of them drives you mad ? ’ |
| 4 | said the encyclical Immortale Dei ( 1885 ) , ‘ in as much as none of them contains anything contrary to Catholic doctrine , and all of them are capable , if wisely and justly managed , of ensuring the welfare of the State . ’ |
| 5 | I says I sure of that and er I left and went and got into a row over it . |
| 6 | I likes thee wonderful ! ’ replied Dickon , a big smile on his round face . |
| 7 | I likes them all nice . |
| 8 | Yours sucks her own boobs . |
| 9 | ‘ 'E gives me enough embarrassment as it is by what 'e gets up to . |
| 10 | You should n't need no 'elp , but if 'e gives yer any lip , just call me . ’ |
| 11 | 'E makes isself vulnerable . |
| 12 | ‘ I jus ' take everyfing to 'im an' give 'im all those sheets wiv me totals on , an' 'e works it all out . |
| 13 | With them resides our only genuine hope of frustrating this cancerous growth . |
| 14 | She goes one better than last year . |
| 15 | It 's got these tight sleeves that look too short and the bottom bit is all bunched up so when she turns it all billows out . |
| 16 | I do n't think she 's all that keen on them , and sometimes she kicks them all out , if it 's getting late and she wants to go to bed . |
| 17 | She scribbles it all up . |
| 18 | And if , like us , you 've never heard of her , we should tell you that she plays his 14-year-old daughter in a romantic piece of ooh-la-la entitled My Father The Hero . |
| 19 | 4 She drives her left knee into his chest to immobilize him . |
| 20 | She drives me batty . |
| 21 | She drives me batty . |
| 22 | And she drives you insane ! |
| 23 | ‘ She drinks it all the time . ’ |
| 24 | There 's a quotation here from one of the ladies ' magazines at the time : ‘ woman was given to man to be his better angel , to dissuade him from vice , to stimulate him to virtue , to make home delightful and life joyous , in the exercise of these gentle and holy charities , she fulfils her high vocation ’ — pretty inspiring stuff ! |
| 25 | And no doubt she thinks me strange beyond belief I am too tall , not handsome by this world 's standards , and I do n't know how to pay the pretty compliments a young woman expects . |
| 26 | She thinks it all very romantic — she does not know what hard work being a servant is — and nor did I , for that matter . |
| 27 | She thinks your wonderful ! |
| 28 | The stereo cassette is an essential tool , with Queen blasting out at full volume while she produces her fine work . |
| 29 | In fact her resistance to the ‘ sense ’ of the question is due to the fact that she understands it first in the context of legal discourse : ‘ She had a brief glimpse of a mediaeval bureaucrat … issuing a proclamation : ‘ From 23.59 on the 16th April 1340 , dipthongisation will be optional in the County of Kent ’ ' ( 5 ) . |
| 30 | Apart from the deadlines created hy husbands ' and children 's needs , she imposes her own time pressures ; these follow from the way she organizes her work and the kind of standards she sets herself . |