Example sentences of "[prep] [unc] [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 2 | Er , you know , Ken , Kenneth Clarke is absolutely right to er protest about the hundred billion for a job creation scheme in Europe . |
| 3 | The only thing I would say is , is that we 're looking to er start in the next quarter various plans for maintenance routines one of which will be o , actually on furniture . |
| 4 | We 're quite content that we 're going to have to er put before the local plan system the the countervailing issues and the weight that 's given to the countryside through E two is appropriate in the circumstances . |
| 5 | my Lord all that follows now is that question costs in this my Lord there is no doubt that er this is the painful experience for both the plaintiffs and of course for doctor who is unrepresented and therefore must inevitably feel rather isolated in this matter erm , however in my there is no reason to er depart from the usual principal of the costs which should follow the event and of course we know as it the loss on the subsidiary appeal and so I do n't press the point on that cos the reality as you 've already probably anticipated is all the work has been done erm on this appeal the subsidiary appeal I ask , I do n't ask for costs on that , in my submission it should be both sides bear their own costs on that , the reason I say that is that there was no , there was no cross appearing in respect on it in effect , cos after all , all you were doing was er trying to get the same as the other side if we lost , so no worm of can of beans can be done by doctor I had one parallel in my whole skeleton on that , er , but we have substantially succeeded on the main issue and so I , I would ask that costs in favour of the plaintiffs on , on that and here and indeed below . |
| 6 | I was n't allowed to s sit for the eleven plus . |
| 7 | No , I think it 's just that it just seems to be like this every year now Peter , that everybody tends to erm wait until the last minute . |
| 8 | Oh you wanted to wave to me cos I was gon na ask you to erm get into the second carriage all the time . |
| 9 | And traditionally , I find , British parents tend to erm say on the one hand we 'll let the school get on and do their professional job — I find it quite depressing they do n't ask for more say in the organisation , but they do demand , quite rightly , the right to criticise when things go wrong . |
| 10 | Using single devices be they terminals or erm perhaps Microsoft Windows in the future we 'll need to categor deal with the different categories of users and the different devices they have to deal with . |