Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this period she herds stray animals to her seashore cave , where she feeds them during the cold months . |
| 2 | Like when we go to the laundrette , or she takes me to the swimming baths to have a hot shower . |
| 3 | As a first step , he or she identifies it by using a word-meaning which is conventionally taken to match the nature of the perception . |
| 4 | ‘ Once she tells us where the book is or she leads us to it , she dies . ’ |
| 5 | Fairness requires that we judge a defendant on the facts as he or she believes them to be . |
| 6 | Or she zips herself into a black evening gown and she 's a sophisticated 30 year old . |
| 7 | By a somewhat artificial rule , a servant who receives a thing from his master for the master 's use is deemed not to be in possession of it , though the contrary is true where he receives it from a stranger for the master 's use . |
| 8 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 9 | It collects these flakes with the brush near the end of its hind legs and passes them forward to its mouth where it kneads them with saliva . |
| 10 | Thus , these subcultures respectively enable corporate officials and lower-class adolescent males to commit crimes without too many pangs of conscience ; through their sanitizing prism , each sub-culture softens criminal acts so that they assume the appearance of ‘ not really ’ being against the law , or it transforms them into acts required by a morality higher than that enshrined in a parochial criminal law . |
| 11 | Or he grabs him by the hair , drags back the head , makes the first deep cut . |
| 12 | The motorist is driving too fast because he does n't expect any children , or he expects them to be careful ’ |
| 13 | As a single woman living with her uncle , the negligent landlord Mr Brooke , Dorothea has good reason to concern herself with cottages , although she intends them for the estate of the obliging Sir James , having presumably abandoned her uncle as a hopeless case . |
| 14 | Environmental issues are also important to Alison although she believes none of the major parties have a good green record . |
| 15 | Presumably not : but it would be a very bold man , a Karl Marx indeed who would assert that , for each and every woman and always , housework is her spontaneous activity , that it is the satisfaction of a need ; or that she fulfils herself in it ; or that through it she develops freely a physical and mental energy and will not be physically exhausted and mentally debased . |
| 16 | In this sense , the definition of standards and routines can be seen as a defensive process : the housewife is defending herself against the allegation that she does nothing at all . |
| 17 | That she does it for the money , which symbolises affection , emotional security and personal achievement . |
| 18 | But there ( at H.S. 's ) the food is so beautiful that she applies herself to it . |
| 19 | And it is not that she knows me to be bad or weak , or you either , but her conventional mind could not grasp that a thing so often impure , can be made absolutely and perfectly pure . |
| 20 | All Lori will tell you is that she knows nothing about the jade , ’ Paige advised him steadily . |
| 21 | all the same , that she wants me at home , though she does n't like me , and she could never admit that she might need me … " |
| 22 | I do n't think that she wants anything for it |
| 23 | But whatever the case , and despite the fact that she bores me to stupefaction , I ca n't be unkind to her . ’ |
| 24 | Observing Irina in her advancing years , it is only occasionally that she reminds me of my mother or Aunt Anna — a look , a gesture , a sudden exclamation . |
| 25 | Well Mrs Toad is having a sale in her shop + + she has laid out her caish + cash register + + an' a number of pots of tea + + it 's gon na be a special sale because + + so she has th' + a sign up saying + prices are slashed + so she hopes lots of customers will be coming along + to visit her + + while she ‘ s waiting for customers + she goes about setting out the rest of + of the shop + + for things in the sale + + an ’ she brings on + large cans of tin + of tea + + for + she can only carry one at a time + so she walks on with one and puts it on the counter + + |
| 26 | It 's too heavy for her to carry , so she pulls it to pieces with her beak , holding it tightly in her talons . |
| 27 | But I 'm sure that once she joins you in the pool she will find it easy enough to slip into the flow of things . |
| 28 | Reg. v. Grant and Hewitt , 12 J.L.R. 585 , although it adds nothing to the established principles , is an example of inconsistent previous statements wrongly withheld by the Crown at the trial but properly , if belatedly , disclosed on appeal , so that a conviction depending on evidence of identification was quashed for want of a fair trial . |
| 29 | This keeps us in our place , although it frustrates us with a great deal of suffering . |
| 30 | It is a very effective package , paperbacked with a threatening kind of picture on the cover ; it has a subtitle ( ’ The fight to save children from damage by lead in petrol ’ ) which begs the question , and although it contains nothing but the truth , it certainly does not contain the whole truth . |