Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of them are taking their husbands see but they 're taking friends . |
| 2 | Now more and more of them are taking their place on that very same stage . |
| 3 | Many of them are losing their jobs , but they can not move to Serbia because its economy is in even worse shape than Croatia 's . |
| 4 | By the year 2000 , it is expected that women will represent almost 50% of the workforce , so , assuming women have the same potential management skills as men , and bearing in mind that women gained 45% of first degrees in 1989 , companies that fail to recruit or promote them are cutting their reservoir of managerial talent by half . |
| 5 | But most of them are keeping their options open , sending part of the family back to their traditional shambas or plots , but keeping some people in the city . |
| 6 | Failure could create a social time-bomb of disillusionment and despair , and the political forces that would exploit them are awaiting their chance . |
| 7 | Three coal mines in Yorkshire which employ fifteen hundred people between them are to have their futures reviewed with the intention of closing them down . |
| 8 | Staff at Oxford Regional health Authority will now have to wait and see how many of them are to keep their jobs . |
| 9 | Sister Gemma and I are enjoying our work , and we have been recently joined by the third member of our team , Sister Dorothy Castles , a Notre Dame Sister from the Ipswich Province in America . |
| 10 | In fact I feel happy to be alive and I am enjoying my relationship with my husband and my children . |
| 11 | Campese , who hopes to face the Barbarians at Twickenham on Saturday , is more direct , saying : ‘ I play because I enjoy it and as long as I am enjoying my rugby and I am wanted — well , you are a long time retired . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I am enjoying my job more than ever and there is still a lot to be done with PRCS , so all the speculation is a bit silly . ’ |
| 13 | I am enjoying my writing career and would like to develop it into a full-time career if I can earn enough money . |
| 14 | ‘ I am wasting my time with you . |
| 15 | If early on you learn phrases like " I am learning your language " , " I have only been here a short time " , " I did n't understand what you said " , and " Please repeat it more slowly " , you will at least be able to make a sensible response to anything said to you . |
| 16 | But perhaps I am shirking my responsibilities by being here , in the police force . ’ |
| 17 | I am to finish my training here in Milan . |
| 18 | PAMELA : [ moving behind the line of chairs ] Here is the bar at which I am to take my trial . |
| 19 | I am helping my Pa with the outdoor work , as is right and proper . |
| 20 | Just as I am drawing his attention to the point and beginning what I know will be a long and wearying discussion , Mirsal , who has been fighting the cabman about his fare outside , appears and lets loose such a torrent of thumbnail word portraits of the clerk 's family that , used as I am to his powers in this respect , I am struck dumb with admiration . |
| 21 | I am drinking my coffee from a tin mug , bacon frying in the pan and scenting the air , and toasting a large slice of bread on a fork , as the bee-eaters begin their busy day and the vervet monkeys start to squabble . |
| 22 | Q I am building my fish pond and I would be grateful if you could tell me if it 's possible to keep Koi without pumps and filters . |
| 23 | We 're the ones that have said to Jehovah I am dedicating my life to you , I am going to do this , do that and the other and it 's up to us as to whether we do it , so it requires effort , first , five , six , also says let us stay awake , keep our senses first Peter , five , eight keep your senses , be watchful and then first Corinthians , ten , twelve which I think the song was based on let him think that he is standing , beware , beware , beware that he does not fall , if you think things are going along nicely and you 're in a comfortable little corner , a little niche in the truth , and it 's just how you like it , and it 's just the way you want it to be and there 's the time we need to be aware because there 's an opening for Satan to get into to make us fall . |
| 24 | I am renewing my e forts to be sure that these incidents are not instigated by South Koreans . |
| 25 | LIKE many pensioners I am seeing my savings dwindle with falling interest rates . |
| 26 | I am watching my love |
| 27 | ‘ I am transforming my body , ’ he says , ‘ into a vehicle for greater communication . ’ |
| 28 | In the novel I can believe he is saying such things , perhaps because I am hearing his voice in my head , in the privacy of my own mind ( I am thinking him ) and I am extremely relieved to hear him say them because his words bring to an end a certain kind of conflict between himself and Connie . |
| 29 | I am sorry if the Minister finds it difficult to understand that , when I say ’ personally ’ in this respect , I mean that I am expressing my view and the view of my party . |
| 30 | In Paris tomorrow , I am meeting my French and Italian opposite numbers , whoever they turn out to be just now . |