Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb -s] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With amazement and with pleasure she hears her own voice saying No . |
| 2 | Now the braking , bearing in mind It takes you half a second to react anyway , but hi his actual thinking distance is about thirty feet . |
| 3 | I still have nightmares and if there is something on the television about rape it brings it all back to me . |
| 4 | When he returns for his payment she shows him another body , claiming the porter has not done the job asked of him . |
| 5 | Far from calling himself a god he admits his own inadequacies — he can not rebuild the dome , he can not claim to have fed on honey-dew and drunk the Milk of paradise . |
| 6 | Marie helps me with my money , and every week she gives me some so I can buy plants and stuff for my room . |
| 7 | As a manager he remains his own greatest fan and although his playing days are over , he was probably the most creative player on Rangers ' books : a genius in search of a mirror . |
| 8 | Secondly having put up this message when I try to exit windows it tells me that 1-2-3 is still active but I can not find a way to deactivate it . |
| 9 | Recently I 've worked in jazz with John McLaughlin ( her partner ) — and Marielle she has her own projects . ’ |
| 10 | In the end he does it all and more . |
| 11 | In it he said of Mrs Thatcher , in the jocular way he addresses us all : ‘ I wish that cow would resign . ’ |
| 12 | This is both for the purposes of common courtesy but also as it may have an important bearing on the way he discharges his own continuing professional responsibilities . |
| 13 | She 's engaging brain it takes her some time to come out to the phone instruct the whole thing . |
| 14 | In its imagery it recalls his own Deploratio virginitatis male amissae of long ago : |
| 15 | It would seem that this director was flying in the authority 's private , twice daily , shuttle to the site ( being a wartime airfield it has its own landing strip ) when one of the wheels fell off as the under carriage was being lowered . |
| 16 | Like most of the lakes of Switzerland it has its own character . |
| 17 | But on the eastern margin it keeps its own counsel : instead of heading out to sea to follow the line of the Easter Island Ridge , this Pacific Ocean boundary stretches ( with only three minor hiccups ) directly down the American coasts , from Attu Island in the Aleutians to Diego Ramirez Island off Cape Horn . |
| 18 | In The Facts he examines his own vexed state with reference to the vexed question of whether it is better to make things up , and to distort them , and by contemplating his earlier re-invention of the time-honoured dualistic account of literature and human nature . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , he 's trying to make himself look useful so the next time he wants his own name in the paper I 'll remember and do his bidding . |
| 20 | The artist paints the face and body of the sitter , but in fact he shows his own feelings . |
| 21 | Heres , for example ( in , " the greedy clutches of your heir " ) , denotes something perhaps rather less cosy and familial than the English word " heir " ; in many contexts it suggests nothing more than a legal designate with a contractual , post-obituary option on some hapless benefactor 's goods and chattels.5 Pietas is a notoriously difficult word to render , " piety " being the last recourse of the weary translator ; it involves " integrity " , " probity " , " purity " , " fidelity " , " devotion " , " decency " — a complex of related moral attributes which Romans sought and recognised in the upright man . |