Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [det] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you say what it is about them that threatens you ? |
| 2 | What is it about them that makes them stand out from the rest ? |
| 3 | There 's something about them that makes me want to see them glazed with passion — ’ |
| 4 | ‘ My heart misgave me when I saw his livery at Parfois , for Isambard is close and confidential with him , and sure they had some business between them that bodes us no good here in Wales . ’ |
| 5 | Since each department is responsible for its own buying it is difficult for the store to buy in bulk , and thus cheaply |
| 6 | Trades unionism , functioning in its proper field , was an asset to the whole community , but when it was used by ambitious men for their own ends it was a danger . |
| 7 | He stood up , aware of them all watching him . |
| 8 | The funniest turn of them all took her one evening when , bent on success at all costs , she added a frothing soap powder to her immortal cheese souffle . |
| 9 | The sight of them all gave her a feeling of warmth and contentment . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's the thought of being in the middle of them that makes me come over all shaky . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Miss Abbott will tell you that I do n't even possess one of my own to entertain her in . ’ |
| 12 | Although barbel are so stupid when they are feeding ravenously , they are not so stupid they can not learn a few tricks of their own to enable them to feed in the face of apparent danger . |
| 13 | Swooping onto a reed warbler 's nest , this female cuckoo removes one of the host bird 's eggs and lays one of her own to replace it in a matter of seconds . |
| 14 | It 's the duty of one of her own to avenge her . |
| 15 | it 's kind of you all to spare me the time . ’ |
| 16 | I told him it was the size of it all disturbed me . |
| 17 | To the south-east the morning sun was tinting the misted tops of the Macgillycuddy Reeks , and the beauty of it all reminded her again of her father 's remarks to her about Ireland and Corcaguiney on that evening when he broke the news of her betrothal . |
| 18 | It was losing that young lass of his that made him sign on , William knew full well . |
| 19 | The shock of his touch seemed to rob her of what little control she still had , and her eyes flew open , her blurred gaze registering his gaunt face as she stared at him before his arms enveloped her . |
| 20 | Hast taken leave of what little sense thou were born with ? |
| 21 | it is worth writing an index and even typing a few pithy words of your own to remind you , and others , of why you did what you did , when you did it ! |
| 22 | If you generally want the views of the public it is no good trying to false those views through a straight jacket of your own to make it what you think there views should be unless of course they go right over the top in which they I do n't think that 's happened so far . . |
| 23 | The last three assistants he 's had like you all found him very eligible . |
| 24 | You wanted to wake up with him right there in the room and to turn to him and quote the next line of the film right back at him , to whisper it to him , make me almost believe that we are a pair of young lovers without any shame , and I do n't mean that in some tragedy queen way , but in order to say of Boy that truly I do think that it is a beauty like his that makes it all worth while , and I do feel that if we are fighting for anything , and if I was asked in a questionnaire what it was I was fighting for ( and believe me I do feel like I am fighting , more and more I think that ) , then I would answer , beauty . |
| 25 | Well I was working in the quarry , and er it 's last March turned round and said he wanted a new implemented with a new miracle saw that he had bought and he did n't really give us much warning about what he was gon na do but all he said was that er he was gon na scrap our old bonus contract and implement a new one no matter what , and from various figures that were bandied about we all realized we were gon na back quite a lot worse off because of it . |
| 26 | With nothing more to recommend it than its quality , Guinness began to make a friendly invasion of many parts of the globe . |
| 27 | This buys them an extra round while Thadeus hesitates , in which time they must come up with something more to prevent him from attacking after this initial hesitation . |
| 28 | But from my own researches it became plain to me that she was very much a person of her times , as compared with Beatrice Webb who became so much a critic of her times . |
| 29 | He had given her that household , a little society , warming itself in its own glow of virtue , insulating itself from the big bad world ; but within its own limits it had been open and supportive . |
| 30 | Bill Frisell 's earliest influences were Jim Hall , Wes Montgomery and Jimi Hendrix , and in his own playing he combines the various aspects of their styles to form an amalgam of jazz finesse , rock explosiveness and avant-garde experimentation . |