Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can just see him looking down that long nose of his and saying in that sanctimonious voice : ‘ there 's something you ought to know , Mr O'Shea … ’ |
| 2 | They come to me , whining and wheedling , ‘ old Mother , this , make him fall in love with me , ’ ‘ old Mother , that , he 's a good man , I love him , but he beats me and goes with other women . ’ |
| 3 | Then she raised her face to me and said with sad seriousness , |
| 4 | They walked on either side of me and talked to each other , jabbering utter nonsense as though it was all so important , and I , with more brains than the two of them put together and information of the most vital nature , could n't get a word out . |
| 5 | Would he not join me in urging Sinn Fein to reconsider their position on this and would he also agree with me and confirm to this house that this government will never do what Mr Adams requests and that is become a persuader of the people of Northern Ireland to join a united Ireland and will he , will he recognise from me that many on these benches remain committed to the union of Northern Ireland and Great Britain . |
| 6 | In any case , Mr Farraday seized the opportunity to grin broadly at me and say with some deliberation : |
| 7 | Keeping records of personnel , updating them and reporting on this information is the foundation of any personnel system . |
| 8 | However , women will have to be more alert in future in view of the growing violence against them and increase in sexual attacks . |
| 9 | He turned , saw them and giggled without any of his old charm . |
| 10 | They were perhaps stemmed from innocence , but they were very searching and very real questions , and he was obviously very excited to ask them and to listen to some of the answers . |
| 11 | They were perhaps stemmed from innocence , but they were very searching and very real questions , and he was obviously very excited to ask them and to listen to some of the answers . |
| 12 | And so we had discussions with them and I can tell you , you know , it was at least six months before the consultants ever made any specific move to introduce the system as such er because of our overtures to them , because of the fact that we asked regularly to meet them and to consult on various points . |
| 13 | Perhaps only three or four keys on the typewriter keyboard that the computer will have need to be pressed at all , and if a child presses the wrong one it does n't all stop and funny , you know , impersonal messages come up on the screen saying he 's done something wrong , it just ignores them and waits for one of the correct responses . |
| 14 | That 's right I mean this card is carried with them and looked at all every every basically everybody will look at that erm because the good quality |
| 15 | Their wings are often swept forward slightly although they can close them and dive at tremendous speeds ( Figure 9 ) . |
| 16 | These women do not feel called to the seclusion of their sisters inside the enclosure , who never leave their convent , but feel called to serve them and act as essential intermediaries between the cloistered nuns and the world . |
| 17 | One of the reasons we developed a design-led retail business , offering our own unique products , was because we saw we could distance ourselves from other retailers who were just selling manufacturers ' products and discounting them and getting into constant competitive battles . |
| 18 | Even so , she had no means of recognising them and to wade through three hundred-odd pages in search of some unidentified reference would be a formidable task and probably not worth the effort . |
| 19 | In in school when I 'm copying off the board words with like K in the front but like they start with a C but I usually put a K and then the teachers go over them and say like this is a C sort of you know careless and all that . |
| 20 | I think it is important to reassert the depths of support for such measures in Scotland and , more generally , for the principles of welfare which underpin them and stand in such sharp comparison to attitudes south of the Border . |
| 21 | I think it is important to reassert the depths of support for such measures in Scotland and , more generally , for the principles of welfare which underpin them and stand in such sharp comparison to attitudes south of the Border . |
| 22 | Whitney right , and he was a wee small boxer and he used to hits them and going like that then ! |
| 23 | He made his way through them and turned into steep Hanover Lane . |
| 24 | She made an effort and pulled herself together , drawing away from them and saying with great dignity and a careful enunciation of her words , ‘ You must not q-quarrel , you two . |
| 25 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 26 | Very intimate sounds were coming from the cubicles , but it was n't until the girl who had beckoned her earlier on came out of one of them and pointed to another where the door was open , and whispered harshly , ‘ Do n't you want to go ? ’ that she realised , Yes ; yes , she did want to go . |
| 27 | Magnus and the Alsatian , attracted by the noise , came running over and began leaping up at them and barking in wild excitement , their panting mouths leaving clouds in the chill air . |
| 28 | Their presence is still obvious around the city , in statues and monuments , in buildings used by them and restored for other purposes now , and at the church they attended , St Paul 's in the Jewellery Quarter . |
| 29 | And that is exactly how they look — like things that jump out of the dark and land without a body feeling them and burrow into living flesh , flesh they have numbed with preliminary injections , and … suck . |
| 30 | It is the former that constitute the ‘ classical perspective ’ and , in this final section , I want to try and extricate them and look at some of the problems that Beccaria 's version of them encountered . |