Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See my dad likes videos and things like that but he wa he , I know he likes aftershave , he likes that Old Spice and that so I thought well I 'll get him something like that or I thought I sort of saw cos I 'm going shopping Saturday , I 'm trying to get it all Saturday if I can . |
| 2 | ‘ You know , where she keeps him prisoner . ’ |
| 3 | Where they gave me meat and drink . ’ |
| 4 | And if a married woman in her own right had investment income , she 'd got money in a building society or a bank or what have you Morning ! |
| 5 | Can you tell him please that I wish him happiness ? ’ |
| 6 | It is with no disrespect to her that I give him preference . |
| 7 | Different names may be current in my area , so that I give you information on the wrong fish . |
| 8 | I ca n't tell 'em apart , so I call 'em Bubble and Squeak , and whichever one answers it does n't make any difference . ’ |
| 9 | She had n't forgotten that she owed him taxi money . |
| 10 | I thought that she gave them education to add to er , to the poor . |
| 11 | That 's quite a good i , go and get one and see that you cover it tin foil if you want but it 'll probably be alright as it is . |
| 12 | yesterday , they erm they got Jacqueline and told Jacqueline that if know is that you call them bus shelter . |
| 13 | ‘ I understand , ’ she responded coldly , ‘ a lot more than you give me credit for . |
| 14 | ‘ The public are quicker to shift opinion than we give them credit for . |
| 15 | Moray Lawson will be the editor next issue so we wish him luck ( he 'll need it ) . |
| 16 | Yet the logic of the definition suggested that it would benefit especially kings , whose competence to declare war could not be impugned : thus Thibaud of Blois failed to persuade the monks of Marmoutier that they owed him service when he fought against Louis VI ; they claimed discretion in the matter ; and in 1184 , the mighty Philip of Alsace hesitated to commit to battle the army he had summoned against Philip Augustus , through fear that its ranks might melt away . |
| 17 | Thresher manager David Newton and assistant John Onanuga are suspended on full pay for ‘ inventing ’ a story that they sold him Champagne at £15.49 and Raffles cigarettes at £1.98 . |
| 18 | the ways that they do it sort of thing . |
| 19 | He claimed that they lost him money by selling Licence To Kill cheaply to boost company finances , when they were raising cash for a takeover bid . |
| 20 | And like my parents sort of went , the thought that they gave them money that we had for it , yeah |
| 21 | However , members wanted to recognise his outstanding contribution to the club so they elected him president . |
| 22 | He did not discuss his ordeal with Ranulf or the Prior , although he told them time and again that all was well and let them order his life , content to drift , think and reflect . |
| 23 | That it had it head bit off by it young ’ |
| 24 | Yet I could see , sitting next to him , that it brought him contentment which at other levels he lacked . |
| 25 | I think you will find that it owes it resiliency not to its form of organisation or administrative skills , but to the power of what we call beliefs and the appeal these beliefs have for its people . ’ |
| 26 | The Roman Emperors were much more slippery than anyone gives them credit for . |
| 27 | When given the game , the king was so pleased that he offered it creator anything he wanted . |
| 28 | He puts himself in good light by adding that he gripped me tightly round the shoulders in reassurance , that he gave me brandy , that we talked long after the starlings had ceased their chatter , that we walked down into the street and discussed in jogging stride what guilt or shame or desire could do to the human soul . |
| 29 | A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them –o reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him , with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products is likely to result in injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 30 | Perhaps Adams was more astute than he gave him credit for . |