Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says it the same sort of consistency as yogurt but it 's salty and it 's warm and it 's not very nice at all she said . |
| 2 | She calls it the magic flannel and says : ‘ Mummy you 'll be fine . |
| 3 | Yeah , that 's , that 's when it 's hard she asks you the same thing again and again and a few minutes later , then half an hour later , then , then you think have you listened |
| 4 | She tells me the only freedom is that of the imagination . |
| 5 | a Chinese girl she 's living in it , in a kind of a real dive of loft thing to do her art and she gives him the odd painting instead of paying rent . |
| 6 | ‘ The wave is my lover and she gives me the ultimate orgasm . ’ |
| 7 | SHE does it the other way round , because we 're convinced that not only our readers , but most UK cooks , do n't cook metric . |
| 8 | Instead of the usual embarrassed note next morning , she leaves him the fragmentary manuscript of Rory 's own Crow Road : a folder of gnomic jottings and descriptions that represents a more substantial legacy than his father 's . |
| 9 | and you wonder why you 're losing all your matches cos every time the ball comes to him he ca n't trap it or if he does he kicks it the wrong way |
| 10 | he has he the same problems that we 've all had you know erm and yes he 's , he 's , he 's very easy to listen to despite the fact that he 's a southerner . |
| 11 | He intimidates me the first time I ever talked to him was in the pub |
| 12 | It 's fucking madness , I 'll ge I mean it kills me the next day , it 's madness , I do n't know why I do it . |
| 13 | He shows me the clean pink palms of his hands , and he raises his bushy eyebrows . |
| 14 | And that we have an obligation to listen to noise because it shows us the grim truth of reality . |
| 15 | ‘ But he sees me the other way — he spoke of another photograph — he was telling me that … ’ |
| 16 | so that when he sees you the next time , he 'll double check that . |
| 17 | And having my kind of build , being quite big and wearing miniskirts , I know that sometimes it gets me the wrong kind of attention from boys only interested in physical relationships . |
| 18 | He misses it the first time , but I 've written it exactly like he played it , because it does n't really sound too bad ! |
| 19 | Brian had his cholesterol test on er little bit of paper they give you with all the information it tells you the only oils you should use are erm olive oil and saffro saffrall |
| 20 | And it tells you the normal plug rating for a particular appliance . |
| 21 | To mark his disapproval of my doing so he gives me the wrong ticket and some change , of which the amount , as far as I can see , bears no relation to any previous transaction between us . |
| 22 | He gives us the archetypal wolf in Armani threads in script executive Griffin Mill — Tim Robbins — whose job entails dashing the hopes of thousands of writers each year and making a handful rich . |
| 23 | I say , he moves him the more you search for him historically |
| 24 | It gives me the greatest pleasure to second the nomination of Chris as the Honorary Treasurer . |
| 25 | It gives me the most pain and is like a burning sensation . ’ |
| 26 | Tenderness is just something that women like because it gives them the upper hand . |
| 27 | It gives them the upper hand . |
| 28 | I paused before replying to her , because if you pause before replying to people it gives them the foolish idea that you 've actually listened to what they 've said , and I said of course darling . |
| 29 | The third strand — the perennial philosophy — deals specifically with consciousness ; combined with the other two strands , it gives us the new paradigm . |
| 30 | And it gives us the right answers . |