Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb base] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You think because you 've read a few crappy books you know it all . ’ |
| 2 | Being aggressive is just as bad as being submissive it really is because people swing to one side you know it some people are very good at being aggressive and are very good at diving in and getting their own way and just ju by being aggressive it 's naturally aggressive . |
| 3 | Over five thousand pound we pay you another fifteen percent . |
| 4 | The highway briefing we get one each month out . |
| 5 | In nine months we get them all back again . |
| 6 | As a ghetto they create their own lifestyles and moral values and often express theologies that are anti-Christian as well as anti-human — pelagian , Arminian and gnostic . |
| 7 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |
| 8 | ‘ Alan I owe you this from a year back . ’ |
| 9 | And she says come on , my , you girl I tell you this and that . |
| 10 | They have their own morality I think we all know that ! |
| 11 | And because each of the directors seems to have a share in the brother 's or brother in law 's concerns you know we all thought right , if they 're gon na play the game together , we 'll play the game together , and see what happens . |
| 12 | As a parent you know your own child best . |
| 13 | There were the bank recruitment stands ( 'If you give us all your money , we will let you queue in our bank when we 're open , and outside when we 're not ! ' ) and the MI5 stall ( 'Ever thought about Intelligence ? |
| 14 | In Scotland we have our own particular marital madness . |
| 15 | If we serve bad-for-you foods at home we affect our own hearts , certainly , but worse still , we are serving the wrong food to our families . |
| 16 | We never asked for these technologies , and in the long run they give us fewer choices , not more . |
| 17 | This is why the idea of the ‘ educational toy ’ is so fraught with difficulty : the trick is never to let on that it is supposed to be educational , in case you transmit your own anxieties . |
| 18 | Idly I wonder if she 'd have done the same thing had the play been Shakespearean : ‘ Now is the winter of our discontent … but leaving aside discontent for the moment I want you all to put your hands together for good old birthday boy Barry in Box B. All together now , Happy Birthday to you … ’ |
| 19 | I take all that you have and it 's place and in it 's place I give you all that I have and all that I am . |
| 20 | Did that job I give you this morning . |
| 21 | ‘ In these dim November days I resemble nothing more than that poor Creature of RHA 's Fantasy , immured in her terrible In-Pace , quieted perforce and longing for her Quietus . |
| 22 | Erm just like the the images , rather than it just all like being in his imagination I think it all coming to life around him . |
| 23 | From this basis you produce your own bright ideas . |
| 24 | From me you take the love of home to put it in whatever place you make your own . |
| 25 | My shift we do it this way . |
| 26 | In terms of paying commissions we pay them all the following week . |
| 27 | But as individuals we develop our own language as we go along . |
| 28 | And some places that erm I know that in some places they have their own local way of speaking and then they speak a different way to other folk . |
| 29 | ‘ We are not for having any man turn sceptic , and disbelieve his senses ; on the contrary we give them all the stress and assurance imaginable ; nor are there any principles more opposite to scepticism , than those we have laid down . ’ |
| 30 | Enya , who is at No. 11 with the haunting Book Of Days , reveals : ‘ I had hair down to my waist until I was 18 , then one day I cut it all off . |