Example sentences of "[pers pn] [pron] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I just got one thing that I want , that they gon na send me owt dodgy like a loan shark bloke or owt like that , I mean you , you 're bound to be a bit nervous , you know . |
| 2 | It , it just does n't tell you anything interesting about the person , that very , that very same person . |
| 3 | ‘ He was telling me something indelicate about a horse , ’ said Lydia . |
| 4 | Come on , tell me something nice for a change . " |
| 5 | If you bought me something flimsy in a flatteringly wrong |
| 6 | Yeah we something wrong with the bathroom . |
| 7 | He 'll give him a greater measure of liberty even so , if Harry 'll give his parole , but Harry 'll give him nothing short of a dagger . |
| 8 | BIRD 'S EYE VIEW : Dickie Bird 's 47th Test leaves him one short of the record |
| 9 | There was to her something romantic about the idea of sitting with him in the place where she had so often sat alone , eating a poached egg or macaroni cheese at a shaky little oak table . |
| 10 | The cars would pass and re-pass each other in a game of motorway weaving , the sons manoeuvring their powerful Mercedes around each other until the women eventually objected or they themselves tired of the sport . |
| 11 | The logic of the inhibitor approach is obvious , but for a number of years I was reluctant to get involved in doing such experiments , as it was n't clear to me that using broad spectrum inhibitors such as those for protein synthesis would tell me anything precise about the biochemical processes I was trying to unpick . |
| 12 | It is that to a class of fifteen-year-olds in a co-ed comprehensive school , such a statement told us something influential about the culture in which we were growing up and nothing about gerbils . |
| 13 | With this second novel , Amy Tan has again proved herself to be a first class writer , one who can write books which not only have enormous popular appeal , but also teach us something new about the human condition . |
| 14 | So Libet 's experiments tell us something interesting about the information processing going on in the subject 's brain but they tell us nothing about the temporal relationship between physical events — either inside or outside the brain — and conscious experiences . |
| 15 | This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light . |
| 16 | At the very least , therefore , mysticism must tell us something important about the human mind . |
| 17 | The Carthusians , a reformed branch of the Benedictine order , were particularly enthusiastic about The Ladder and this tells us something important about the nature of Hilton 's achievement . |
| 18 | These empirical difficulties tell us something important about the nature of support structures between grandparent and grandchild . |