Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember when the sheep were quite happy nibbling grass and left me alone to munch my sandwiches . |
| 2 | I do n't think I am a cruel or sadistic person , but I believe both the people I have mentioned , and certainly the second , should have been put down , unless a medical operation could be found that ensured their cure . |
| 3 | The dog refused to budge , so , instructing the two older girls to hold tight to the younger , I heaved up the 196lb of stubborn fur and staggered to the railing I went down to extricate my struggling son and carried him upwards followed by shrieking pleas of , ‘ Daddy , do n't leave us ’ and ‘ I want a carry ’ , from the frantic tadpole in charge of two red-faced little girls who were now starting to show signs of stain and filling tear-ducts . |
| 4 | I remmed out the graphics . |
| 5 | At the agreed rate of 10¢ per column inch it meant that if I could provide two 25-inch columns per day , which was relatively easy for me , I could earn about $30 per week which was $6 more than I was getting when I gave up the staff job . |
| 6 | ‘ But sometimes I wonder where the series is going . |
| 7 | The fish are fed sparingly once a day and I carry out a 20% water change every ten days when I use a vacuum to clean the top layer of gravel . |
| 8 | I carry out a 25% water change every two weeks . |
| 9 | And I 've well the people , all the people I 've spoken to and everybody I 've spoken to is very unhappy ! |
| 10 | He 's the one who gets the wages for it while I have n't a lira to myself not even to buy a pair of stockings , stuck here in this gloomy hole day after day — and he goes out working , he goes out to work when according to the contract he 's not allowed , I should be allowed but not him . |
| 11 | I HAVE both a £10 and a £20 note before me as I write and there is very little difference between them , either in size or colour . |
| 12 | I picked up a pair of combat boots from a pile in the corner , found some laces , and looked at the other people wondering with whom I could swop my uniform . |
| 13 | ‘ I wondered where the pair of you were hiding . |
| 14 | SIR — Following your article on the Liberal Democrats ( April 1 ) , may I ask when the media are going to stop ‘ being nice to Paddy Ashdown ’ ? |
| 15 | The memory of lightning flaring between the cracks in the boards and me pushing home the four-inch nails with numb fingers arrived simultaneous with the patter of descending footsteps … |
| 16 | Ye 've still a quid and a half . |
| 17 | While other shoe makers were suffering from the recession DMs Northampton shoe factory was hiring more staff — there are now 2,500 of them turning out a pair of shoes every 4 seconds . |
| 18 | When you round out the aircraft floats for a long way and flies very nose down . |
| 19 | We welcome people from every party , it does n't really matter which party , or even if they belong to no party , who are just committed to seeing a representative representation , seeing more women in there , because women in this country , just as a matter of fact , have a rather different experience from most men , and if you 're making a decision then you want there the people who have had a wide range of experience , who can bring that experience to bear on making the decision . |
| 20 | She snatched off a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and looked up at Maxim with myopic surprise . |
| 21 | You bring lots of people in at junior management and through a series of apprenticeships you cream off the people who get to the top . |
| 22 | One night he nearly caught her , so she climbed up a lamppost. and waited until he had gone . |
| 23 | ‘ If you add up the people who voted for him and those who voted against him and those who did n't vote , you have to decide if that is a vote of confidence in him or not . ’ |
| 24 | the one on the corner , you know where the fish shop used to be |
| 25 | It lists the different elements of a database — data files ( in table form ) , queries ( Query-By-Example , so you fill in a data entry form with the criteria you want matched by the query ) , single-record forms , reports , label formats and applications . |
| 26 | There is also an organisation chart and you fill in the data form for this rather like a bullet chart in order to create a tree diagrams . |
| 27 | Reaching into her case she pulled out a pair of ugly buttoned boots . |
| 28 | Asked to elaborate , she lays out a series of proposals only slightly to the left of the League of Women Voters : universal voter registration , inclusion of minor-party candidates in presidential debates , revival of the Fairness Doctrine for broadcasters , ‘ direct democracy ’ in the form of citizen referendums on national issues like the budget , and an all-encompassing but vaguely articulated ‘ economic democracy ’ . |
| 29 | If you take out a £25,000 loan over 25 years , each year you will pay back a proportion of the sum borrowed plus interest on whatever is left over . |
| 30 | Let's say you take out a £5,000 loan over two years and you elect to start your payments right away . |