Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One ca n't give cast-iron guarantees , just as you ca n't give me guarantees about my safety if I was to go to Birmingham , ’ Mr Thomas replied . |
| 2 | Ooh I tell her , I says to her pop down to Wallis 's . |
| 3 | And erm we got there and I says to my husband I says , oh , I says er , are you sure that tent 's safe ? |
| 4 | And of course ’ Oh no ’ , I says to my mother , ’ I not going to out in advertising , I 'm going to join the forces ’ . |
| 5 | I says to your dad , your dad said well you were n't wearing jeans . |
| 6 | Well I says to your mother one time when we 'd been downtown and your passing through |
| 7 | I says to our |
| 8 | I mean I , I tell you straight I talks to my girls |
| 9 | The company 's ability to adapt to new opportunities and capitalize on them depends on its capacity to share information and involve everyone in the organization in a systemwide search for ways to improve , adjust , adapt , and upgrade . |
| 10 | ‘ What did 'e get , son ? ’ 'e says with 'is dying breath . |
| 11 | Kindly do n't presume to issue me orders in my own house . ’ |
| 12 | Everything and everyone is drained of value except as means to my own dwindling and at last exclusively pre-human ends , and I myself am equally a means in the eyes of everyone else , as I am forced to recognize whenever an automaton interacting with me reaches for its own pocket computer . |
| 13 | So I sit docile above her , upright and male , unresisting as she delves with her hand . |
| 14 | And er so she goes to Guatemala , and she goes for my er one of my daughters a wedding present , and she er a lovely dress , and she bought it in Guatemala for thirty pounds , she . |
| 15 | If a girl is lucky and her parents are alive , she goes to her mother 's house for the last few months of her pregnancy and about the first three months of the baby 's life . |
| 16 | The only reason a Sikh girl is allowed to do that is when she goes to her in-laws after marriage . |
| 17 | and then she goes to me mother sometimes |
| 18 | well , she friend in the morning , so she goes to our friends so she 's there for about twenty minutes before they |
| 19 | No she goes to Our Lady 's Convent . |
| 20 | She goes to Our Lady 's Convent . |
| 21 | That 's where she belongs on her wedding night . |
| 22 | She turns on her back to get her breath , then swims a slow breaststroke out to the centre . |
| 23 | She turns on her heels and tears through the crowd once more and out the door . |
| 24 | Mr Newbegin , She turns to her friend and says , ‘ It 's just terrible that Harvey did n't tell her it was formal . |
| 25 | When she cries in her sleep , try not to fuss her , and do n't worry about her eating trouble — as soon as she begins to realise that you are a family unit her tum will never let her starve ! |
| 26 | well I said that 's up to you , but I said if you want a bed back in our room , you 'll have to fetch it I 'm not and yet she sleeps on her own at your house does n't she ? |
| 27 | She sleeps with her husband 's killer ! |
| 28 | But you have also read the passage from Colette and felt the sensuous materiality of the physical world she evokes with her adjectives , so you know too how strong an effect they can produce . |
| 29 | ‘ All is war now , ’ she records in her column early in August , ‘ and art is under worse than lock and key . |
| 30 | In January 1924 , when the house was nearing completion , she went twice in four days , first with her son ‘ Georgie ’ , the Duke of Kent , when they spent one and a half hours ‘ going over the beautiful miniature things ’ , as she records in her diary , and later with a friend when she ‘ arranged some of the rooms ’ . |