Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I 've written countless letters and nothing 's been done . |
| 2 | I mean I 've known little strikes there last about a couple of days and they all got over it . |
| 3 | Because I 'm not kidding you , see that , I mean I 've to buy big bags of it . |
| 4 | You know , and I mean we we work , you know , it 's like er I mean I have to pay full poll tax and all these type of things too , even though my husband 's on a sort of very er basic sort of wage , and I pay all these things you know . |
| 5 | All my investigators who want them have got personal alarms of their own . |
| 6 | D' you want to drink ordinary tea or what ? |
| 7 | And you 're supposed to try and link it with bigger groups of children , so if you say you say you 've got primary skills |
| 8 | And maybe hope that we as , as people as women need to do is regain control of our lives so they , they belong to us , so it does n't matter if if boys say we 've got fat bottoms or not , yo you say my bottom 's alright an and you live with that . |
| 9 | ‘ We keep meeting these people who travel down to Cornwall and say they 've surfed big breaks , but it 's all false . |
| 10 | They in turn say they 've had tremendous support from hospital staff and the people of Cheltenham . |
| 11 | But police here say they 've had growing problems in regulating the tide and have even ordered groups of refugees to return to the border post to allow time to clear bottlenecks further down the five hundred mile route to the Red Sea port of Aqaba . |
| 12 | But the Rays say they want to warn other parents . |
| 13 | The organisers of Telethon say they do consult disabled people about the event and feel such an opinion is a minority one . |
| 14 | They are young and middle-aged men , many with wives and children in Turkey , who say they have suffered repeated imprisonments , police beatings and torture because of their sympathies for communist and Kurdish independence groups . |
| 15 | Officials say they have identified new sources of timber that would not conflict with protecting the owl , but environmentalists are concerned that the government has called for a much smaller reduction in the timber " harvest " than the Thomas report . |
| 16 | POLICE say they have found strong evidence linking a series of fires in Gwynedd at the weekend with the Meibion Glyndwr arson campaign . |
| 17 | Newton Aycliffe police investigating an incident when a stolen car was smashed into a policeman 's house last week say they have had good response from their appeal for witnesses and are waiting for forensic test results . |
| 18 | As a journalist having a career break I do get itchy fingers and long to turn out something that will look good but not cost the earth . |
| 19 | Keep the cheapskates parade they 've got inflatable sheep and all sorts for set up here oh it 's still number one then |
| 20 | It 's a deficiency that they have to go back to another culture , but we hope they 've got sufficient strength from being here to get through that . |
| 21 | He has made a great number of friends here who wish him the best of luck , and hope he plans to make frequent visits back here . |
| 22 | By all means let us seek to prevent congenital abnormalities , but let us not betray our Hippocratic tradition in the process . |
| 23 | Now let us attempt to understand postmodernist culture — in the 1920 and today — through Walter Benjamin 's notion of ‘ aura ’ . |
| 24 | Let us learn to treat other people as we would like them to treat us . |
| 25 | Look we have got special bread now come on and sit at the table with us , |
| 26 | Further details will reach you just as soon as they reach us … we 're STILL waiting for a finished version of Hook , ‘ coz we refuse to write full reviews from pre-production , half-finished disks ! |
| 27 | No , that 's supposed to be what he 's thinking look he 's got little blobs coming from his head . |
| 28 | How do you , how do you feel about the future now , I mean we 've heard various people say interest rates must come down — you just said interest rates must come down , but when do you realistically think they could come down ? |
| 29 | Yeah , but then we 've got three hundred pound mortgage , which they have n't got , I mean we 've got different circumstances . |
| 30 | Oh yes , w I mean we have got various leaflets produce still which is in reasonable condition . |