Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pron] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 We have to live with uncertainty and we have to a far more adaptable than previous generations .
2 They are hard up , you know , heavens they 're run they drive a crapped out , clapped out old car and they live in a ghastly little bungalow in the middle of nowhere .
3 Nursing staff on some of those areas that we would pick out — those would be the intensive care units , the children 's units , the delivery suites and special care baby units — the nursing staff actually have control of permits which they can issue to relatives who are going to be here for a great length of time , and if they so feel that these relatives should n't be charged , they give them a permit and they park in a staff area at no charge whatsoever .
4 So I brought it to Gary Brawer , the San Francisco luthier who does a lot of my setup work and he filled it up — took out the springs and the bar and filled it all up with ash and we put in a regular DiMarzio stop tailpiece , with through-the-body strings .
5 Er I 'm a thirty four year old accountant work and I work for a a pi
6 And I walk down a corridor and I go in a door , and they 're there . ’
7 I do think the discussion so far and the contribution from Mr and Mr is unfairly er at this stage erm prejudicing a proper assessment of er er er a for a new settlement all the way round Greater York including the Southwest and I return to a comment I made before the break , that dualling for example of the outer bypass of the York ring road which is programmed and is , will dramatically change may well dramatically change the perception erm erm of people to the to the west of the Greater York area in respect of the area to the north east .
8 If you get the limited edition of Let's Knife , you too can Singalongaknife with the free karaoke CD : I am a sweet little cat/ and I dance on a flying saucer …
9 Des cuts the engine and we bob to a standstill .
10 for young people and if one of the things that corporations to my mind have a positive duty to do which is the social responsibility and we live in a society so increasingly fractured , rudderless and you know not so far away in places from anarchy that they have a duty to do things which effect maybe to see one the Bs not the A ones the Bs
11 I go inside and Chris goes on the top deck and we meet on a quiet corner near the end of the Landing Stage , ’ Maureen said .
12 ‘ Go across the drawbridge and you come to a heavy door …
13 The man counts the money and they argue for a while , Tod saying nine hundred , the man saying seven , then the man saying six while Tod holds out for a thou , and so on .
14 Yeah cos I went in that shop and I put on a size ten skirt and it was hanging .
15 This chapter aims to provide a broad overview of some of the main concerns facing employers and employees involved in overseas postings. first of all , it concentrates on the relocation assistance given to employees posted abroad to a subsidiary company for a two-to five-year period and who return to a position within their employing organisation in Britain .
16 It should be noted that cl 3.2 gives a right to reject for latent defects that could not have been discovered upon examination and which appear after a reasonable period of use .
17 I , you know I do n't mind , I enjoy handicraft but I find I 'm out Monday playing darts , I 'm out Tuesday doing handicraft and I look after a little boy who 's got Cerebral Palsy four mornings a week and comes three in the afternoon and it 's quite a lot .
18 And when they go on holiday with Ann and the old man they used to get through a hundred pounds a day and they go for a week .
19 He was a very physical person and I recall as a child lying on his chest .
20 Signor Banterle is an architect and they live in a beautiful villa which overlooks all Verona .
21 They mean an easy , phonetic ( or rather phonemic ) system such as alphabetic literacy and they think of a ‘ literate society ’ as one in which such a script is widely assumed in public life , as they claim it was in sixth century Greece .
22 But of today 's trip to face Arthur Cox 's side at the Baseball Ground he says : ‘ This is a different season and we start with a clean sheet . ’
23 Odd-Knut finds a steep up-slope where a river joins the lake and we play for a bit going up and down steep slopes .
24 Cadéac , though you would never know to look at it , is in actuality a mini-spa , an example of the purely local spas you can find in the Pyrenees , whose reputation extends only through one valley and which attract as a consequence almost exclusively local people .
25 Folk dancing is not just a tourist attraction : it is popular amongst all Madeirans , whatever their social background and they start at a very early age to learn the dance steps .
26 They live in a big long slow world and we live in a small short fast one , and we ca n't understand each other .
27 I always cleanse , tone and moisturise and I put on a face masque every week .
28 But I stay out there singing some made-up song that goes with the waves crunching on the shingle , so she tosses stones in the water to plop near me in the darkness and I shout like an idiot and run back to the shore .
29 I doubt either can afford to stay at a hotel and I know for a fact that they 're not at any of the local hostels ; neither , I have been reliably informed , have they put in an appearance at the local ‘ hippie ’ compound .
30 But it ties it in to a date and I think in a similar way , erm centenary which is the only thing we 're going to do offic I think that it could be the only thing we do to celebrate our hundred years of existence apart from a small exhibition in .
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