Example sentences of "[no cls] [pron] [vb base] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 you said that because I w I want to buy a book !
2 A I 've drawed a letter .
3 Ca we need to reverse a bit .
4 I mean that 's a , a thing that er I remember seeing a TV documentary and there was this bloke , I du n no if he was from the Terence Higgins Trust , I do n't think so , but erm er anyway he was going on about this , this very thing that there 's often the homophobic imagination er has this sort of slippage between you know , consenting adult activity and if you 're gay , if you 're homosexual then this probably means that you 're also interested in seducing children , you 're also interested in sado-masochistic activity er you 're also interested in , you know , a whole variety of other , you know , things which
5 Er I keep getting a lot of headaches and I think it 's with the hacking and coughing I 'm doing .
6 Er I 've said a lot
7 more than sixty feet long and erm over the last two or three years er I 've made a patio at the bottom , right the whole width of the garden
8 Er I 've organized a children 's Christmas party , it 's called Christmas party .
9 It is not natural to work through the night shift , I 've worked it , there is no way of starting a week without your Er I 've slept a night before , somewhere at the weekend , when the day comes , but you 've got to go the next night to work .
10 So I 'm not creeping back for my job but anything erm it 's not that and erm But the lads in the lodge sometimes you 've got to and er I 've got a bit of er well a speery voice you know rough so sometimes I get a little bit of control on them and erm also as I said about these chaps that are working , erm we 're not blind , we know what 's happening and we 've got sympathy even with them .
11 Erm yeah if er you have no objection , what it 's for is the , there 's this outfit called the British National Corpus and they 're trying to make a record of English Language as it 's used in the late twentieth century erm so it 's a sort of resource for further scholarship so it can assist in writing dictionaries and studying grammar and , and all sorts of things like that and erm they 're attempting to tape conversations from all over the place erm er I 've got a bit of bumph about it , it 's quite interesting erm and in some cases it 's sort of out of erm er it 's out of people 's homes , it 's out of broadcasts , it 's out of meetings , it 's out of all sorts of things erm at work and at home erm
12 well er I 've got a tenner in the bank that counts
13 I had to bring my passport with me to er obviously get into coming from but er I 've got a letter from Alan as well so er me over the border .
14 I , it went through alright , but er I 've got a reminder this time so I I thought well
15 I , I just think er er I 've got a feeling
16 Well firstly the bill did n't have that rough a passage in the House of Lords , because there are only two basic amendments , er that we 're dealing with in the House of Commons that matter , and one of them is the one you 've just mentioned , the answer to it is this , er I 've had a lot of criticisms of giving B R the untrammelled right to bid , er right from the outset their criticisms to do with the danger that you would n't get competition for the franchises the private sector would be afraid , and incidentally this is not a sell off it 's it 's a way of getting the private sector into British Rail with all the advantages that brings , they would be afraid that they would face subsidized and unfair competition , above all , perhaps , British Rail ge=management would feel if they were bidding against their employer that would be a real discouragement to bid , and we 've a lot of evidence er that they feel that and that there are many who do wish to bid in management/employee buy outs , so what we 've done in the amendment is we 've preserved the right for British Rail to bid , but we 've dealt with those criticisms and worries which have come from a lot of quarters not least from within British Rail itself .
17 It 's you do n't have to sell a lot if er you 've got a couple of full pages and a couple halves .
18 Er you 've got a lot of work to do if this is got here tonight , er just s spread the word , tell them it 's not as bad as they probably think it is , there 's no patrols needed or anything like that .
19 Er you 've got a lot of er stuff middle of his lawn .
20 Erm we er you know had a situation you so er we 've had moments when you get very irritated with one another because what you 're trying to do is n't succeeding and because you always blame the other folk .
21 And actually that 's quite a good budget to do sort of er four or five weeks er you know caravanning a year .
22 Cos you did n't know whether they 'd had er you know had a lot to drink or had a load of drugs and start going on the rampage or something .
23 Erm right well when you 've got on your form here on your er you need to give a couple of week 's notice .
24 We 're also committed to tenant participation and er we 've done a couple of exercises already on the scheme and we 've secured some funding from the housing corporation to employ Anglian Design on our behalf with the the housing association er , to involve the tenants as fully as possible in the er , development process .
25 So er we 'll have to wait we 're , we 're er we 've put an offer in , in on a house in Weybridge
26 Yes it is difficult , I mean , one has to , er we 've had a dialect coach and I 'm working very hard on the accent .
27 around and er we 've had a word with Elliel this morning .
28 Starting with cost reduction any cost reduction programme always involves a lot of redundancy and , and this is no exception and from the slide you 'll see that we 've er we 've had a staff reduction er , from the the plan for this year of one thousand and thirty three er and that 's the , that will save us in a full year something like fifteen point nine , sixteen million pounds .
29 The problem can be quite severe , er we 've had a number of penalties introduced by customs and excise over the last few years but what we 're going to see from the 1st April in this year is interest being charged on overdue moneys paid to customs and excise and also a penalty charged where people make a mistake on their VAT returns , even where they make those mistakes quite innocently .
30 set out our stock , set out our stall er to er er get a capability here erm , we 've already er got er er er we 've started a process a and we 're going to start recruiting actual area capability in the not too distant future .
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