Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ What happened to Poll ? ’ she asked , determined not to be silenced by Dr Neil Cochrane , and not to allow the ruin of his looks to create any pity for him . |
2 | ‘ Took me ages to get that right . ’ |
3 | ‘ A woman sees the home as her base and she dresses to complement that environment almost as part of the decoration . |
4 | She wants to see some good old-fashioned special effects — wailings , writhings , ghastly visions and foamings at the mouth . |
5 | And she wants to see more of you does n't she ? |
6 | Kim , who is continuing on the diet as she wants to shed another couple of stone , has always had loads of personality but , as her weight has reduced , an even more bubbly girl has emerged . |
7 | Health Secretary Virgina Bottomley has told the Commons she wants to merge several regional health authorities . |
8 | She wants to do all she can to reduce the suffering of other children … |
9 | She wants to do more of it , though she is too old at 27 and too short ( five foot six and a half ) for catwalks . |
10 | If she wants to do any or all of these things herself , though , she should be allowed to , and her own wishes in everything at this time should be respected . |
11 | She wants to change that . |
12 | yeah I know , du n no why she wants to keep all them I 'm sure |
13 | She wants to keep this a secret but I know you 're interested in her . |
14 | Now she wants to repay some of that help , but that is not the only reason for her unstinting charity work . |
15 | She wants to get all her knee ! |
16 | She got herself a job in Reading college , she got somebody to take her down there and a place to get an English A Level , and Mary said it 's a thing with her she wants to get this English A Level cos her father had one and she feels that is she could get and English A Level it would impress him , he , she spends her life trying to impress her father who does n't really takes much notice of her , . |
17 | she wants to get some money |
18 | She wants to know all there is to know about Zambia Crevecoeur . |
19 | Now , this contribution is not direct , it 's indirect in the sense that males , a male for example who is provisioning a wife who is pregnant is not directly invent investing in the offspring clearly you ca n't do that she has to do that , cos the offspring 's inside her body , but indirectly he may be feeding his wife , protecting her and providing for her in , in a way that is absolutely critical to her reproductive success too . |
20 | I was gon na ask is you know that he ha she has to do all these long hours . |
21 | there 's hardly enough for two in and then she has to do another two only , only she ca n't pour it in after it 's . |
22 | While Robyn is getting up , and getting ready for the day , thinking mostly about the nineteenth-century industrial novels on which she has to lecture this morning , I will tell you about Charles , and other salient facts of her biography . |
23 | I wonder if she has yet worked out that for every douse she has to pull less load ; probably not , or she would be pissing on the wood . |
24 | So she has to find another way of providing music for the midnight service . |
25 | ‘ She was running around at 10 months and she loves to sing all day long . |
26 | Firstly , she needs to carry some weight to maintain her power . |
27 | But the language she uses to describe this process demonstrates her parodic attitude toward it . |
28 | But typically she refuses to do this , writhing on the ground and inviting more and more matings until her period of heat has passed . |
29 | She refuses to undergo any medical checks because she ‘ has no need of further proof ’ . |
30 | She also received a rose arbour for her garden where she plans to spend more time in her retirement . |