Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SNP , if it maintains its principles , need change nothing to collect the electoral windfall left by Labour 's rush to the right . |
| 2 | Trust me to choose the one man that would make it impossible . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean , they get these ideas and these bees in their bonnets and try and make everyone think the same way , and they change all the rules and upset everything , and Freud got it wrong in one way and Marx got it wrong in another . ’ |
| 4 | So use the opportunity , get a return , make them take a good look at you and then you know you 're alright and can go on for another couple of years and make them look at you again . |
| 5 | People tend to assume that parents of mentally handicapped children and those who work with them are gifted with abnormal powers of patience and understanding , or suffused with some form of religious or social awareness that make them adopt a sacrificial purpose in life . |
| 6 | Then my father swung me up out of the sledge high above his head and down again , trying to distract me , to make light of what had happened and make me see the funny side of it . |
| 7 | I would agree that a hypnotist could not , for example , make me attack an innocent person . |
| 8 | PC-ometer We take the three ratings — CPU , DISK and VIDEO and combine them to get an overall performance mark . |
| 9 | I recall that during my last six months service I had the magnificent sum of £6/5/ ( £6.25 now ) to spend on myself . |
| 10 | because I think er Mr 's motion is erm , similar to er Rosie 's erm except that , I mean I think what we 're actually saying is that we do actually have a number of waste planning sort of policy panel , er and this is something look , needs to be looked at in , in some detail , erm and if we just do it via a sort of straight report to the Environment Committee and I mean look at the sort of agenda we 've got today er you know how much time can we spend on the details so I mean I hope the Liberal Democrats would accept that erm yes it will obviously come to the Environment Committee eventually er but that it actually should go to the Waste Planning to the Policy panel and other bits no doubt to the Waste Disposal sort of Sub Committee for this is the policy er committee of course . |
| 11 | I do n't mean I could do it myself , not straight away , I just mean I get a great sense of comradeship with these people . |
| 12 | I mean I get a few things in every week that , you know that you need , that you know er I go out on Monday and get everything else for the week like washing powder , and that sort of thing but u for food , I just get it every day . |
| 13 | You I mean you , you criticize him but I mean I know a few people who , who he |
| 14 | I mean I know an awful lot of people outside Harlow who who come here but Harlow people could be said to be apathetic or not being marketed rightly . |
| 15 | Joe and I mean I come a long way and they said he told them I wan na pop in Friday morning before we go He was surprised He said well I were n't surprised , I said but er you know I want a name yeah well , he just said well I ca n't he ca n't fault me on anything . |
| 16 | I mean I knew the first day I drove in the dark was the first night we had the car and it was most odd experience |
| 17 | It is quite a lot to read I mean I read a short story last week . |
| 18 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 19 | Oh yeah , I mean I had a horrible time with him for some time and it just , just |
| 20 | I mean I had the same problem when I was secretary . |
| 21 | You see it 's it 's high whereas I mean I bought a high bed , but even my bed 's not as high as that . |
| 22 | They want them to obtain a good position and be independent , preferably in the city . |
| 23 | We do n't encourage them to give up their other sports , we just want them to have the same chance in tennis . ’ |
| 24 | You want me to live a middle-class life . " |
| 25 | You want me to throw the bloody thing , do you ? |
| 26 | And forgive me asking an indelicate question but how are you off for money — on the whole trip ? |
| 27 | Abdesselam told the press on July 27 that the elimination of corruption remained a high priority and that " those who paid the price for the measures that have been taken so far are the youth … let no one expect me to make the deprived masses pay any more " . |
| 28 | Given the shortage of good creative talent , this is not that unusual , and if you find that your agency is using freelances , your immediate reaction should not be to fire them on the spot : give them credit for both knowing their own limitations and for buying good work from outside , always assuming that it is good ; but press them to get a permanent team working on your account soon — it is not in your interest to lose continuity of creative work on your account . ) |
| 29 | I want nothing to stop The New Hope from making its maiden flight three months from now . ’ |
| 30 | I have to pick it up , she said oh that 's good , as I say I had a brilliant interview when the other members of staff come Steve and erm , I forget what the girl 's name was , but she 's already had a |