Example sentences of "words [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words his is not the sort of playing which grabs you by the scruff of the neck , but rather disarmingly makes the whole process of playing this hugely demanding music appear the most natural thing in the world . |
| 2 | We recognise that logically this demands a transfer of resources and effort from the former to the latter , that in the words I have so often quoted , some social services are ‘ excessive ’ and others ‘ inadequate ’ — that it was bound to be so and that it is so . |
| 3 | All this is feeble no doubt , my words I mean . |
| 4 | The words I dreamed for you , |
| 5 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 6 | But it is so vindictively cold in this ill-lit room , and my alabaster hand aches so much from the thousands of words I have put down on this unhappy day , and my head still throbs , and my stomach is so empty , and my grief is so heavy , that I think it would be wise of me to break off at this point , this hinge , blow out the once again guttering candle and for the third time today go down the stone stairs to streets where it is always February . |
| 7 | The words I used may strike you as generous , or too romantic , but they are not inaccurate , merely inadequate . |
| 8 | They will even try to understand the words I have spent so long in writing . |
| 9 | You would not have been able to take in the words I had planned to say that night , the night of number one hundred and fifty-six . |
| 10 | Save for one mention of a PLO official in Beirut — the spokesman slugging champagne at the diplomatic reception — Yassir Arafat 's organisation did not receive a single reference in the thousands of words I wrote . |
| 11 | However , as fortune would have it , when I put my ear to M. Dupont 's door , I happened to hear Mr Lewis 's voice , and though I can not recall precisely the actual words I first heard , it was the tone of his voice that raised my suspicions . |
| 12 | As I heard the words I knew they were wrong , but could n't for the life of me remember the dolmen 's proper name . |
| 13 | In other words I was free to speculate and this is what I did . |
| 14 | I am not very good with words I am sorry to say , so that is how my imagination allows me to tell you what you mean to me . |
| 15 | If I started again I would like to have … ( 1 ) a ghost writer , not for my speeches but for my letters and statements : he would be the kind of person who could take the Ministry 's policy and translate it into the kind of words I would use ; ( 2 ) perhaps an economist ; and ( 3 ) a general investigator whose job it would be to brief me so that I could participate intelligently at Cabinet Committees and in Cabinet on subjects outside my own Department . |
| 16 | But when I did so , the words I uttered for the record were that I could not accept that the proper constitutional practices , as I understood them , were being observed . |
| 17 | When I opened one of them and saw English words I could feel the tears pricking at the back of my eyes . |
| 18 | The words I had wanted to hear . |
| 19 | The whole process became disheartening and , although I tried various mantras , from words I repeated endlessly to candle flames that I stared at , my thoughts always got the better of me . |
| 20 | My actual words I believe were something in the line of telling Helen to mind her own business and to keep her nose out of my affairs , but Beth and Ida could never understand why I reacted so violently . |
| 21 | I use the words I learned from Gan and the Rubber Dummy with my work mates and we get on fine . |
| 22 | Since writing these words I have been assured by Manx Cat specialists that the animal 's troublesome genetic defects have now been largely eliminated by careful selective breeding without losing its uniquely tailless condition . |
| 23 | Mouthed all the swear words I could think of — and that was quite a lot . |
| 24 | We go back a long way , me and God , and from his first words I could tell that this was going to be a difficult call . |
| 25 | Just following the flow of words I said , ‘ Oh . |
| 26 | In other words I got what I paid for , considering the price . |
| 27 | He answered earnestly and in words I could understand . |
| 28 | ‘ These are words I 've not used for five years . ’ |
| 29 | I mean , at last I will be able to try out all the French words I have been learning . |
| 30 | The Sheikha 's daughter sat with us , pouring coffee , translating the words I could n't understand , her quiet voice occasionally breaking into laughter at my questions , my curiosity . |