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1  To do a person in means to kill them.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
2  She is not at all an attractive person.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
3  We shall have to be very particular with this girl as to personal cleanliness.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
4  The rain has stopped; and the persons on the outside of the crowd begin to drop off.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
5  And yet she's firmly persuaded that I'm an arbitrary overbearing bossing kind of person.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
6  But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person's thumb are two different things.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
7  It is not in the slightest doubt as to his remaining one of the strongest personal interests in her life.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
8  Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
9  There were even classes at the London School of Economics, and a humble personal appeal to the director of that institution to recommend a course bearing on the flower business.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
10  The double doors are in the middle of the back hall; and persons entering find in the corner to their right two tall file cabinets at right angles to one another against the walls.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
11  Eliza ended by acquiring an extremely uncommercial script which was a positive extension of her personal beauty, and spending three times as much on stationery as anyone else because certain qualities and shapes of paper became indispensable to her.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
12  This makes him a standing puzzle to the huge number of uncultivated people who have been brought up in tasteless homes by commonplace or disagreeable parents, and to whom, consequently, literature, painting, sculpture, music, and affectionate personal relations come as modes of sex if they come at all.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V