Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily I managed to get a job with a small fit-up touring company — playing small theatres in the provinces , living in digs , away from the spotlight and very badly paid . |
| 2 | Next week 's vital for most of them — luckily I 've got a job to go to . ’ |
| 3 | Eventually I managed to find a page torn from a local bus timetable which showed the Province of Parma . |
| 4 | E eventually I did get a job . |
| 5 | Even better I thought to find a society that automatically lets its existing investors know when a better deal becomes available . |
| 6 | Then she breathes out and gives a real smile — one of those big things that brightens her face like a starburst — and I see she 's been frightened , and I sigh , and suddenly I 've got a lump in my throat and I 'm trembling and I do n't think I can move away from this wall . |
| 7 | Naturally enough I had to play a couple of games for the long-suffering Jewish Chronicle photographer ( who must have nightmares about having to snap me on his deathbed ) . |
| 8 | Interestingly enough I 've got a book er back in my office about things like T V comedy and situation comedy and stuff like that and also y'know kind of variety sort of comedy with sketches and s y'know Two Ronnies , Monty Pythons and stuff erm would that be of any use to you if you were to borrow it ? |
| 9 | ‘ Well , you know , perhaps I 've made a mistake . |
| 10 | But obviously I had to make a choice as neither of them wanted a threesome friendship . |
| 11 | And erm obviously I 've got a lot of contacts in the industry . |
| 12 | I mean obviously I want to get a job to get start getting money erm to own my own car is gon na involve money . |
| 13 | So I went to see a man in Devonshire Place and he sent me down the road for a barium meal X-ray . |
| 14 | So I had to serve a week 's notice and I went down this er what 's the name of it ? |
| 15 | So I 've done a variety of jobs , and I 'm not quite sure how I ended up doing what I 'm doing I got into computers by accident , just being in the wrong place at the wrong time . |
| 16 | The other thing is I need er we need to monitor the source of er informations reg information regarding the cordless phone promotion so I 've devised a form which I 'll get faxed yeah in other words , where did they find out about the promotion . |
| 17 | Er , I 've had a word with Jeremy about decorating , oh Florrie I must apologise I did try to ring you , I think I managed to get everybody else , erm but you were n't there , in and then I , I left it I regret to say , erm but we thought perhaps we ought to have the kitchen re-decorated and I 've had a word with Jereminy , Jereminy , Jeremy and he says about two hundred pounds and I did get permission from some of you and I 've gone ahead and asked him to do it and he said about three weeks , but before we can have that done , in the meantime , the roof leaked again out in the kitchen Erm , so I 've had a word with Peter who was going on holiday and he should be home this week and he said he will look at it as soon as he 's home , so I 'll give him a ring , I 'll try tomorrow night , I 'm out tonight , I 'll try and give him a ring tomorrow . |
| 18 | So I 've got a problem . |
| 19 | in that , so I 've got a bag , I 've got a bag of that erm stew pack you know , frozen , that 's really handy that int it ? |
| 20 | So I 've got a number , I mean I started with , had had about fifteen , we 've now got about ninety six . |
| 21 | So I 've got a ray in there I think . |
| 22 | I usually have to come in seven o'clock , that 's how I did it and now I 've been over here sort of mucks the whole system so I 've got a driving lesson tomorrow night , I ca n't cancel that |
| 23 | So I 've got a form to fill in , actually . |
| 24 | So I 've got a lot of admiration for for people living in these flats . |
| 25 | Now I missed that out totally there so I 've got a lot of learning to do on the scripts |
| 26 | So I 've got a feeling you 're going to end up transcribing a lot of the north of the border stuff . |
| 27 | so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts . |
| 28 | So I 've acquired a taste for it , ’ he explained modestly . |
| 29 | Servants are always happy to talk , and so I have heard a lot about the young woman . |
| 30 | So I have painted a picture of an island Shangri-la , a Mediterranean Utopia and I make no apologies . |