Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us .
2 Well it may be that they do n't know how to , or that they set out such patterns of relating together that they have n't got the means of coping with it .
3 One should of course record one 's satisfaction that the two leaders got on well together , and that they smoothed over certain niggling differences .
4 My survival plan spun into action the other week with that hard-fought point against Northtown , and although we went down 4–1 against Clansford United I was not unduly worried — every well-oiled engine needs a little fine tuning .
5 We lit our fire , and whilst it burned down ready to cook our meal on , we sat and talked happily .
6 He and Danny Kirwan were sort of ‘ kidnapped ’ after a gig by this young Munich ‘ jet set ’ crowd ; they disappeared for three days and when they came back that was it .
7 Yeah and er you know we can do a certain amount but I think if you went away from that you can go away from it a little bit but I think if you went too much away the people that you have and and our audience when we 've got them you know , they tend to stay with us you know they do n't change like the the youngsters and when we started off first you know our audience were mainly over forty five fifty plus really and now they 're down to we 're getting you know loads of of people in their twenties and in their teens and even down to kids like last night , five and six years old .
8 Dear old Joe seemed just the same , but as I got better , he began to remember I was a gentleman , and call me sir again , and when I got up one morning , I discovered he had gone .
9 Now , when I came back from Stop Hill the other night , must have been , oh must have been Thursday , cos Paul erm , was going out with Alec and then they were going to Alec for dinner and when I came back one of the erm wooden staves was off here , had been prized off .
10 These kids was coming at us once and six of them grabbed hold of me and when I turned round all the others had fucked off and left me to get a kicking …
11 ‘ One fishermen told me he saw seals in the area where he shot 20 creels and when he came back 20 minutes later they were all robbed .
12 As Eva had known , the location of the flat would always be a draw for Charlie , and when he turned up one evening to eat and sleep I said , ‘ Let's go to the Nashville . ’
13 Then they went back to camp and the only person there was Miguel the interpreter , who 'd been having a long conversation with one of the Indians and when he turned round all the other Indians had scarpered .
14 Flavia stuck to her guns and when she turned up next morning was told by the Loulou boys that she did n't know one wind from the other .
15 It is a condition to us receiving the special transitional grant , and as we carried out last year , with drafting the agreement , we have a very short period of time in which to put the agreement together .
16 We might be given the first few pages to be going on with , and as we went along more pages would arrive .
17 And as we brought out first thing this morning , communication within the group , that is across the functions , and also in some cases within the functions , is poor .
18 The question for an Industrial Tribunal is not whether one of them was innocent but whether you carried out such reasonable investigation as you could and you reasonably believed it was either or both and dismissed them both because of that belief .
19 But when I looked over those I had kept , I decided I could not do so .
20 He 's been sleeping in the spare room , you see , but when you turned up last night , he moved back in .
21 He kept her waiting a couple of minutes , which raised her suspicions , but when he walked out empty-handed she smiled inwardly at having won at least one small battle between them .
22 It is not my intention to discuss medical politics , but as it turned out this was not an unhappy solution , notwithstanding that it married two firmly conflicting beliefs which have continued to operate , sometimes rather awkwardly , side by side , and may do so for many years .
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