Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom . |
| 2 | The point dogs catch him and one of them nips him on the leg — take that for being more popular with the boss . |
| 3 | I needs it for a wager on the Brasseywing . ’ |
| 4 | And er I gets him down and I gets him into the stable , and I gets all the clothes off him and he gets into a bag , a bran bag , more bags and lay down and covered himself , and I hung his clothes round the boiler fire . |
| 5 | Does a man do murder because a mate of his riles him in a pub or because he 's got more money than he has ? ’ |
| 6 | Spurred on by her envious sisters , who convince her that her mystery spouse is really a foul serpent , she arms herself with a lamp to see him with and knife to attack him with . |
| 7 | Whatever the grandeur of the situation she transcends it with a sweet serenity which mesmerizes everyone . |
| 8 | Her senses are , of course , less acute than mine : if she feels even the slightest admonitory prickle on her nape , she misinterprets it as a spattering of raindrops , instead of a stranger 's gaze . |
| 9 | She wants me at the birth . |
| 10 | She wants me off the case . |
| 11 | She has them in the bathroom with her , and she apologizes : ‘ I 've just put fifty pence in the meter to get water for our bath . ’ |
| 12 | She has plenty of the proper sort . ’ |
| 13 | well no she has it as a toy room do n't she ? |
| 14 | I mean she loves it with the kids |
| 15 | The customer always matters and is never a nuisance — even if she interrupts you in the middle of doing something else . |
| 16 | She joins me on the carpet , and we all sit blowing on our coffees and warming our hands on the mugs . |
| 17 | But I 'm sure that once she joins you in the pool she will find it easy enough to slip into the flow of things . |
| 18 | Later she sprays him with an atomiser . |
| 19 | She handles it like a sophisticated traveller unthreatened by a new airport . |
| 20 | And she goes up to the two blokes and she grabs them by the balls and goes mm not bad , nice butt , you know ? |
| 21 | Relations between the Prime Minister and Nigel Lawson may still be strained ( she blames him for the present difficulties ) . |
| 22 | She blames him for the break-up of the coterie . |
| 23 | She describes it as a ‘ very Scottish book about his childhood , up to his time in Cambridge , including disquisitions on such favourite subjects as film and football ’ . |
| 24 | She describes herself as an ‘ old-fashioned ’ teacher in referring to what might be considered rather traditional teaching methods . |
| 25 | When she kisses him as a woman , he dies : she casts herself into the Fire , taking his body with her : and Holly seems to see her alive and radiant , a woman whose sins have been compounded . |
| 26 | ‘ She has been the target of such spite that it disgraces those who offer it , and she bears it with a dignity that makes me proud , ’ he said as Mrs Kinnock stood behind him , smiling but with tears in her eyes . |
| 27 | Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields . |
| 28 | And I do n't go out that much , but then she wears them to the garage , to work ! |
| 29 | Now she wears nothing but the same thing , and always . |
| 30 | She introduces herself as a representative of the government . |