Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them turns her tired beam on us . |
| 2 | But it can stop them seeing its underlying gender biases . |
| 3 | Some in the colony 's business community share that view since following it in policy terms would allow them to continue their prosperous trade links across the border . |
| 4 | BELVILLE : This happy estray thus restored begs leave by me to acknowledge its lovely owner ! |
| 5 | ‘ Would you really , a man of your enormous wealth , sue someone like me for a sum that to you is little more than pocket-money , but to me represents my very livelihood ? |
| 6 | First of all let me emphasize our common experience that most human relationships are asymmetrical . |
| 7 | I think they rather wanted me to wear my old farm clothes , but we compromised with a grey check skirt which a good friend gave me , and a blue jumper . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't you like me using your Islamic name ? ’ said Mrs Wilson . |
| 9 | Although reporters gave the impression that the troupes were new to the American stage , they had in fact made their debut as far back as 1900 when George Lederer booked them to perform their original Pony Trot . |
| 10 | To enable them to conduct their private practice economically and sensibly from their viewpoint , pay beds were an imperative . |
| 11 | As I detest midges more than most things in life , leaving them to enjoy their open season for humans is no hardship either . |
| 12 | ‘ The only result is that a large heron discovered that when it activated the floodlight it enabled him/her to decimate my expensive collection of koi carp , brazenly standing in the middle of the pool at 10.30pm . ’ |
| 13 | The extreme toxicity of their venom enables them to kill their main prey — eels — very rapidly and thus prevent them from wriggling free . |
| 14 | ‘ Isa has not seen me since the happy news and it is that which restores me to near my old self . ’ |
| 15 | Finally , functional elites may be offered incorporation within the policy process in order to compel them to sacrifice their organizational muscle , and to undertake the state 's dirty work by disciplining dissidents within their organizations . |
| 16 | Martin Randall believes in allowing his clients off the leash for a good deal of unorganised time , which enabled me to enjoy my favourite occupation : finding my own way around a new city . |
| 17 | The reason why these had survived so long was because they required the most money spent on them — in the case of valley bottoms , to pay for initial drainage and then to maintain it — to make them yield their full potential of arable and pasture . |
| 18 | Politicians are wary of doing this , of course , because it forces them to accept their proper share of responsibility for the present state of anomie . |
| 19 | Two aspects need consideration : the tendency of workers to lessen their weekly amount of work at times when higher money wages or lower food prices allowed them to meet their customary expectation of comfort from fewer hours of labour , and secondly , the ability of home-based out-workers to control their own pace of work , compensating , if they so chose , for a slack early week with a bout of late-week intensity . |
| 20 | Let me shave your head boy . |
| 21 | In addition , the aerobic activity helped them to increase their metabolic rate which is , after all , what every slimmer needs . |
| 22 | If not are not interested in Media Action , could you let me know what other kind of publicity you may require over the next four to six weeks . |
| 23 | Jesus had not left them orphans : he had come to them in the person of the Spirit , who was not only the special gift of the Messiah to the messianic people in order to enable them to know his continued presence with them , but was the first instalment of the Age to Come , the pledge that the last days which had dawned with Jesus of Nazareth would , one day , come to God 's perfect conclusion . |
| 24 | Still the point was well made , I mean not sounding like you can sort of freeze an article to , not compromise the sort of committee , I mean , it is , dead if you give it away and you would n't consider pressure groups , they 'll pick up their report and their copies anywhere , and take bits out and quote you , I mean , I mean I know I 'm in this , I like to distort , like them to know our official disposition before it 's dead . |
| 25 | I hide my sticky hand behind me , as if it 's brightly stained . |
| 26 | Finally I asked what criminal law might contribute to legal theory . |
| 27 | Turning , then , to the relationship of criminal law and legal theory , I asked what legal theory might contribute to criminal law and I dealt with two central issues ; first , the limits of exposition imposed by the nature of legal rules which , I argue , are essentially incomplete and therefore incapable of a final , exhaustive statement ; and , secondly , the nature of methodological purity , where I argue against a tendency to distort data to fit a favoured critical principle . |
| 28 | I asked what young chap , and he gave me a description which tallies with what Sanders told us : about twenty-five , darkish , slightly built . |
| 29 | So erm anyway goes in , I said to him other day , I asked him other week , he says our turn to give me a ring |
| 30 | I asked my old friend , Ricci Burns . |