Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [adv] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to want to help them or else his plan was much deeper than they knew . |
| 2 | But his , his but basically his behaviour is that you , you can tell the way he reacts , you know he gets like really het up and really excited , you can tell that whatever Alfiera 's gon na say it 's not gon na really gon na make much difference . |
| 3 | He tells me that sometimes my desire verges on cannibalism , and that he can not give me what I want . |
| 4 | She told me that perhaps her agnosticism was a help in this respect , because , while she respected the faith of religious people and found religious ideas fascinating , she was not tempted to be dogmatic about what she believed . |
| 5 | I began to feel myself being pulled further and further under the water , I screamed and swore but nobody seemed to hear or believe me and then my head went under and all I remember is a feeling of despair as I squeezed the tree trunk only to find that it simply crumbled in my hands . |
| 6 | That day was a turning point for me and afterwards my life improved immeasurably . |
| 7 | Not only you but also your teenager will benefit from such honesty . |
| 8 | I can not think what came over me as I was brought up chapel like you but unfortunately my father was a miner and not a grocer . |
| 9 | It 's not his compositions that interest me but more his attention to detail . |
| 10 | He was the archetypal theoretical physicist : it was said of him that even his presence in the same town would make experiments go wrong ! |
| 11 | Whenever he mentioned his novel she told him that only her work was ‘ true art ’ . |
| 12 | I 've got more time for him than either our lot or the Americans , ’ he added bitterly . |
| 13 | All through that October and November , in my claustrophobic college room or in my dark-curtained hotel apartment , I grew to desire more of him than just his presence at my side as we wrote . |
| 14 | He thinks we 're in league with the police to get rid of him and now my husband wo n't have anything to do with him , he leaves it all to me . |
| 15 | The determination and cheer of her and particularly her mother inspired their friends to throw the birthday bash |
| 16 | dropped her and then her husband picked her up and the Reverend |
| 17 | Someone wanted to strike her and then their mood turned and they shouted , ‘ Get rid of the dog ’ and kicked out . |
| 18 | so he sits there erm , and you know you involve in our conversation , but he sits there talking to her and then he sort of feels out of it and then he storms off |
| 19 | got talking about Sun readers , there was this girl and she , she was stood on this podium and she , she 's talking to The Express and The Guardian and going like that and their taking photographs of her and then you sort of pan round , the camera pans round and you 've got The Star and the Sun going like that fucking its really funny , The Sun and The Star in it |
| 20 | On his arrest , O'Shea claimed : ‘ I had to kill her because somehow my body has been infected . |
| 21 | Many students clearly did n't see him as quite their cup of tea . |
| 22 | Over the next couple of pages , I will explain to you the different types of friendships , my experiences of it and generally my opinion of friendship . |
| 23 | There was a slight delay as she read it and then her head slowly turned in my direction and she gave me the biggest grin I 'd ever seen . |
| 24 | Penny went shopping with Rowan , into one of those very expensive boutiques shops , yeah , and between them they bought this dress , and when they got it home , Rowan 's mother would n't let her have it because it was too revealing and so Penny was stuck with it and then her mother would n't let her have it either , but the shop would n't refund , it would only give them credit so she 's got all this money to spend in the shop . |
| 25 | For days Grom lay moaning and groaning as at first the Troll 's regenerative abilities outpaced his own ability to digest it and then his stomach gradually gained ground . |
| 26 | Erm how do people sort of beco when you become a member of a group , usually in some way the group changes you as you go through different stages of it , your values may change as a result of interacting with people in the group and th this process of erm somebody 's come up with how it is that you start off in a group , how it is that you become an active member of a group , how it is you may even become involved in the maintenance of the group and the leadership of it and then you sort of die away and that 's the y'know retire from the group . |
| 27 | In Wycliffe 's temporary office there was only one small , dirty window high up in the wall , but the sun happened to be shining through it and so his desk and chair were placed in a pool of sunlight . |
| 28 | She did this and enjoyed it and gradually her father and his friends came to accept it ; indeed , not even , any longer , to notice it . |
| 29 | ‘ We could n't understand it because normally our drill is to go out of the back to the car park . |
| 30 | Good research , therefore , should consider not only the cause of the events that concern us but also their nature and consequences . |