Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb base] [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |
| 2 | Er , you know , it 's just a , and I 've paid for that and that and |
| 3 | This has happened to the car at some time in its past , as a result of which the crank shaft 's worn , the engine 's a bit dodgy , but I buy it 's not apparent when I buy it , but the engine breaks down after I 've bought it and I 've paid for this warranty , you 're going to come back and say ‘ oh , this was a defect inherent in the vehicle before you bought it , excluded by the warranty ’ . |
| 4 | Yeah I said well I earn half of it as well then and I 've worked for half of it , but I ai n't paying the bills either |
| 5 | This is something for which my hon. Friends and I have pressed for some time . |
| 6 | Both Ian Allan , chairman of AIR , and I have felt for some time that this division was not helpful to the railway movement and it was agreed at the ARPS Council meeting held on 25th April ( which I missed due to the pleasure of attending my secretary 's wedding ) and the AIR Board meeting two days later that we adopt a proposal put forward by David Madden , a member of ARPS Council and director of operations on the North Norfolk Railway , to set up a joint committee to handle affairs of mutual interest , which we agreed should be called in good railway tradition : ‘ The Railway Clearing House ’ . |
| 7 | It grew out of the teaching of stylistics to undergraduates at Lancaster , which and I have shared for several years . |
| 8 | but now and again there 's some like erm sub-circuits or whatever , sub programming that you 'll appear right there 's Mermaid Towers right , you appear and you get trapped for seven years listening to this old man |
| 9 | I think its possible to fall in love with the same person more than once , you fall in love with them and you get married for that as well as other reasons perhaps , and then you have children and you hardly see them really for the next ten years , at least this is what every one sort of understands and then and then erm and then when you have more time again you can fall in love all over again with exactly the same person , I think this happens to lots of people , which also does n't happen to a lot of people so you have n't |
| 10 | Yeah it 's lovely , some money 's worth there , I think me and you have paid for that car |
| 11 | ‘ I have to admit we let him down over the gearbox which was slipping out of sixth gear and we have apologised for that . |
| 12 | Would it be possible to find out what Priscilla 's results were because she 's had a urine test and she 's extremely sore and they 've asked for another urine test , and I 'm |
| 13 | Templeton went on to explain how employing women played havoc with this arrangement : When the females get their work to set up , the whole of what we term the " fat " is taken out , that is all the space is taken out and they simply get close matter to set , and they get paid for that . |
| 14 | The monuments in our care are the best and they have survived for specific reasons — yet they are only the tip the iceberg of our archaeological inheritance . |
| 15 | They have disposed of the different regimes relevant to the different kinds of legacies , and they have adopted for all of them the rule applying to trusts . |