Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In these notes I described the aims and origins of the scheme : |
| 32 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 33 | When I search a farmland site I always keep careful records , and looking back to my notes I started to search the areas where there had been the greatest concentration of finds . |
| 34 | Unfortunately , I wrote to him in rather a hurry , and did n't take copies of the notes I sent him . |
| 35 | ‘ I came to see you about some notes I sent your husband . |
| 36 | But the other important element is that you have to reflect the style of the original , look at the notes I 've made at the bottom of the page , please . |
| 37 | With all my worldly debts I thee endow … |
| 38 | ‘ I 'm in a lot of trouble with some debts I owe . ’ |
| 39 | His people kept him monstrously short — ’ I ca n't wait till they discover the debts I 've made ; though as a matter of fact I can wait , it would be wiser too . ’ |
| 40 | there 's a thing on one of my cloths I 've got some on |
| 41 | As an in-house lawyer , my ‘ clients ’ are the company personnel I deal with regularly . |
| 42 | While the hairdressers I spoke to admitted the cult of the dominating hairdresser was strong in the last decade , they all feel it 's now on it 's way out . |
| 43 | I was back to visit it because Ben Tee , via the falls , was one of a series of outings I was proposing for a book of Lochaber walks , and despite all my nosing about I was not prepared to describe things without another visit . |
| 44 | The only outings I remember being taken on as a child were once with the school to the zoo and once by my mother to a seaside promenade . |
| 45 | One of Gary Speeds first outings I believe . |
| 46 | I also operate with the assumption that , although my results pertain strictly only to the sample of forty housewives I interviewed , there is no reason why they should not relate to the wider population of housewives , since it can not be shown that the forty women are unrepresentative of the larger population . |
| 47 | If this second approach is right — and despite my own biochemical enthusiasms I believe that it is — then the biochemical events that I study are likely to be very general processes of protein synthesis and membrane modification , sometimes described as ‘ housekeeping ’ . |
| 48 | It 's not cos she 's it , cos she 's like that you know I bought her summat , when ours were not , not very old , I did n't know what to get her and I bought her an ornament , she says oh I wish people 'd stop buying me ornaments I 've got too many , has to dust round them I thought you 'll get sod all next year |
| 49 | What I meant was he 'd got just about the finest set of false teeth I 've ever seen . |
| 50 | He said that money was no object — those were his actual words — and he wanted the most expensive teeth I could provide . |
| 51 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 52 | Various items get gulped up into my mouth , and after skilful massage with tongue and teeth I transfer them to the plate for additional sculpture with knife and fork and spoon . |
| 53 | And silently my teeth I gnashed |
| 54 | I was mesmerized by that mouth , by the sharp edges of white teeth I could see when she smiled . |
| 55 | I think if I 'd had er no teeth I would n't have been able to manage at all , or if I had |
| 56 | He 's cutting his top teeth I think . |
| 57 | Baby first teeth I do n't know . |
| 58 | Yes because they 're not very nice to eat they just get in your teeth I 'll rinse these up |
| 59 | That does not mean , he wrote , that if the body does not protest the project necessarily has any value , though for reasons I have gone into already it is necessary to put such thoughts out of mind , they can not help , they can only hinder , they can not water , they can only blight . |
| 60 | For various reasons I am unable to publish a transcript of everything that was said , although some salient points are to be found in the book . |