Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [modal v] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when you called I was teaching , and the rule when I am teaching is that one of my sons must answer the phone . |
| 2 | I recommend that you use a good brush and learn to paint with it well ; if you can master using the brush there will be no need to mess around with varnishes , which in my case will alter the appearance of the painting . |
| 3 | My mum just has black coffee okay ? , got sugar in , any one , my mum can have the one with Brian written on it though |
| 4 | Boy-wonder karate expert , I thought , and I hoped that my sister would get the hill and the record collection ; some of the Goodman discs were valuable . |
| 5 | My death , my banishment would deprive the King of contentment as well as my husband . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ I knew my club would hit the rock but I popped the ball up to 20ft and two-putted . |
| 7 | Meyer , lifting her country 's first track medal following South Africa 's 32-year exile from the Olympics , said : ‘ My silver will inspire the entire nation . |
| 8 | My vote will go the party that faces up to present day problems not one that wallows in class hatred and preaches the doctrine of envy and bitterness . |
| 9 | How many of my readers can give the answer to ⅜ ÷ 15/16 but are unable to explain why the answer is ⅖ ? |
| 10 | Hopefully my experiences will make the business of doing business in Japan far easier and will pave the way for WEC to work with Japanese companies in the future . ’ |
| 11 | The other sites erm or other site on the periphery of Skelton erm to which you drew my attention would have the potential if developed of causing a different sort of damage . |
| 12 | My grey school skirt would be swapped for a rock-and-roll dirndl and six net petticoats , painstakingly dipped in sugar water to make them stiff when dry ; after the first four dances , the heat from my body would melt the sugar and my nylons would stick together . |
| 13 | Of course the harder I tried to insert it , the tenser I became , and the less my body would accept the foreign intruder . |
| 14 | I know that if my feet leave the floor of the cave then I 'll float upwards and my head 'll hit the ceiling and my skull 'll get bashed in and I 'll die . |
| 15 | Has my hon. Friend considered consulting people such as members of the Secondary Heads Association to see whether all the heads of comprehensive schoools in my constituency would relish the idea of paying an extra 9 per cent . |
| 16 | ‘ My wife used to do the gardening at home . |
| 17 | My wife will extend the invitation to the Carsons . |
| 18 | Sometimes my sisters would play the piano but the music had to be of the kind suitable for Sunday . |
| 19 | Well shipping Angus , so you know when the dredgers go on er er er creeping ahead , see we used to have er what we call the head wire there used to be a wire which was all stretched out say about half a mile and what you s and erm and all according what erm how much mud you were dredging for the depth of water and then my father would give the signal to say right , cos on the , on the head wire used to have a pull , we call the pulls and they were like er a jutted piece off the wheel and he 'd say five pulls ahead and we 'd say one two three four five right and we went ahead with it and then when we were dredging sidewards you see , used to sidewards , you never went ahead with it , not all the time you c you went sidewards across the river , and erm once you got ahead your side chains they moving up cos you got so far ahead th that the side chains were n't much good to you , so you had to then move your side chains so you got a little off the mud in an old boat and then re further up the river . |
| 20 | For my father would keep the best for himself , to train and breed , and sell or give away the remainder . |
| 21 | ‘ My father used to do the garden at Taigh na Tuir . |
| 22 | And er my father used to do the garden then . |
| 23 | So that was the last And I do n't think if he went back after that I think it had kind of frightened him , least so my father used to tell the story . |
| 24 | Indeed I believe there 's a distinct possibility , that the force of persuasion in my arguments will bring the other two groups over to the Conservative point of view . |
| 25 | and my Lord the my Lord you 'll see at the bottom of page sixty nine , this is the latest edition just published this summer my Lord , erm at the bottom of page sixty nine you have an extract from the European community treaty which er defines a directive and you will see my Lord says in terms that it leaves to the national authorities the choice of forms the methods , and then if my Lord could read the passage er under that on page seventy |
| 26 | I would n't say my career will go the same way as Kylie 's — we 're both doing our own thing and I would n't try to imitate her because we are both completely different . |
| 27 | I think my doctors will confirm the unlikeliness of that . |
| 28 | ‘ Well ma'am , there 's some scraps of food left over and … it 's bold of me to say so … but if it was going to be wasted I know my cousins would feel the benefit . |
| 29 | I apologise for my temper and any inconvenience I have caused you , and I assure you that my grandmother will adore the things you showed me today . |
| 30 | ‘ My players must class the replay as the most important game of the season and ignore the Rumbelows Cup and the promotion race . |