Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is it about them that makes them stand out from the rest ? |
| 2 | There 's something about them that makes me want to see them glazed with passion — ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's the thought of being in the middle of them that makes me come over all shaky . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm , I 'm now erm having you , having you told me this having you said that , you just look at that |
| 5 | The girls in campus , blinking heck Phil , they keep coming out in their underwear and saying , can you get me this size , or can you get me that size , you know , what am I supposed to do you know . |
| 6 | First can I just ask , as , as somebody who 's building a paper aeroplane you got assumption whatsoever , so am I supposed to say I do n't know the first thing about making a paper aeroplane , you you told me . |
| 7 | But once you 've made this sauce of yours I suggest you have a bath and a rest before we eat . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've no idea how I felt when I first saw you step out of Peter 's jeep that day you arrived at Rocamar . ’ |
| 9 | You know , in that horrible time when I first knew I had to have this operation . |
| 10 | I coloured it when I first met you did n't |
| 11 | I first discovered I had a breech baby at 30 weeks and by 36 weeks it was obvious she had a mind of her own and was going to stay that way . |
| 12 | ‘ When I first heard you mention him to Nora , last autumn ’ — she laughed — ‘ I was so startled ! |
| 13 | When I first started I thought we 'd have tutorials and seminars ; you get three or four students and you discuss something . |
| 14 | Before I first visited I supposed wrongly that , since the latitudes are more or less the same , the coastline would be vaguely similar to that of Maine or New Brunswick . |
| 15 | Lucy sent Silas a side glance as she said , ‘ When I first arrived you said it might be arranged for me to see a kiwi , but I 'll quite understand … ’ |
| 16 | When I first arrived I felt lost , I was wary of everything . |
| 17 | ‘ I first watched him playing for Derby reserves and he looked ungainly . |
| 18 | I sh- think you 've only got to leave it till it 's melted , has it melted ? |
| 19 | It made me sad to hear him speak like that ; he did n't seem to understand that was all I wanted to do . |
| 20 | Were looking at the body beautiful and what we do to achieve it , we all arrived in the world with more or less the same package of features , limbs , faces , torso 's , since then , all of us I bet have tried to improve or disguise the way we look , what do we do ? , why do we do it ? , well let's start with a few questions , er , are you , well let me ask you this do you have a beautiful body ? , button one for yes , and button two for no |
| 21 | well a number of things have come up so let's just take a couple of votes as er , from hearing from a few people and of which people have n't managed to speak so , first of all , er , er people talked about fear being larger than the incidence of assault , are you afraid to go out in the dark ? , button one for yes and button two for no do you find that your afraid to go out in the dark , and then this hundred and that 's a very , I mean that 's , that 's a very significant figure fifty seven out of this hundred women say yes that their afraid to go out in the dark from time to time , I mean that , that is not as it should be , let me ask you are you ever afraid in your own home ? , button one for yes and button two for no and that two is a very worrying figure , twenty nine of of this hundred say yes their afraid in their home , let me ask you this have you trained in self defence ? , button one for yes and button two for no , I mean its something that comes up from time to time and I do n't know what your view and whether or not its a good idea , well twelve of the hundred here have er , eighty eight say no , of those twelve would you recommend it ? , did it make you feel better ? , yes |
| 22 | ‘ You British think you have the monopoly on class structure … their only daughter a mere air hostess … it did n't bear thinking about . |
| 23 | and so this guy was selling it for forty , Vicky ordered her canoe there and he was quite a young man and so alright she said hi big boy how about letting me have it for thirty five if you 're willing to ha are you willing to haggle I mean my friend did buy a whole canoe he sort of |
| 24 | Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ? |
| 25 | erm I think perhaps we were on erm traffic management generally , you mentioned Howard Street and Magdalen Street , which you all know you know has always been a bone of contention amongst the Conservatives erm they spent two hundred thousand on it and they now want another two hundred and fifty thousand to make it permanent , and so on and so forth . |
| 26 | ‘ I have here a petition and I want you all to sign it to show those men in power that the women and children of this country think that slavery is wicked and wrong ! ’ |
| 27 | that must be a high point in a career you know , when you first see them go out |
| 28 | When you first started you had the hallmark of an apprentice of black apron with a bib on it . |
| 29 | But when you first say you 've got this problem , they 're losing votes , the media is n't necessarily the first thing that 's going to come to your mind . |
| 30 | Although he was in repose the same energy she had noticed when she first met him oozed through his body . |