Example sentences of "[pers pn] [det] [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 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll give you letters of introduction saying you 're a writer and to give you any help you need . ’ |
| 11 | Erm have you any do you sell fish fingers ? |
| 12 | So , er , have you any did you have music homework Josie ? |
| 13 | You both knew you wanted to get married . |
| 14 | ‘ And you both want me to pity you ! |
| 15 | ‘ You both wanted her to stay on Rhodes , but neither of you felt able to admit it : is that what you 're saying ? ’ |
| 16 | but this time it was a genuine tragedy so he paid me all deposit I put in , he paid me all back , you know , I don I did n't want I do n't want to go caravanning by myself |
| 17 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 18 | We half expected them to come back a few days later , but they have never returned to the barn we prepared so painstakingly for them , although they are still sometimes seen in the vicinity . |
| 19 | We all knew he had only a few weeks left to live . |
| 20 | Nothing was said , but we all knew he had gone against his own convictions to save us from the pain of losing his company and his vital support . |
| 21 | We all knew it did n't matter what Cynthia said . |
| 22 | Mum and Aunty , you know , Mum and Aunty get on well , and we all get you know , you get on with them as well , and all types of stuff . |
| 23 | ‘ And all we shall have to do is to stick together and confess that this dreadful accident did happen a little bit earlier and we all felt devastated but there was a full house and we all felt we owed it to the public that the show should go on . |
| 24 | And er at the end of it I think we all felt we knew where we were going , and , and what the work that we 'd put in over the last three years on the management procedures , which form the foundations of our quality system . |
| 25 | Those were exciting days and as the money began to pour in we all felt we had joined a successful crusade . |
| 26 | Everyone who took part in this charitable challenge thoroughly enjoyed the day , and we all felt we had contributed something worthwhile to the local community . |
| 27 | Sergei and Masha came to my room and I opened a bottle of mineral water : we all felt we needed to be abstemious . |
| 28 | ‘ We all know they do their own checks on the Royals , especially the young ones , and their circle of friends . ’ |
| 29 | We all know the grave problems in some of our children 's homes but we ca n't run away with the fact that er they 're unique to or the problems do n't exist elsewhere because we all know they do . |
| 30 | Well yes , we all know they live in the land of the midnight sun when it 's dark all the time . |