Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's tacky it 's erm well as soon as they come in the door they wan na walk out and that that 's an overall opinion that 's not just me or a couple of mates that 's everybody . |
| 2 | Even where practices may not differ over time , or place , there may be an inconsistency about them or a lack of knowledge about them , or a long-standing dispute about them , which could make it equally difficult to argue that following or not following a practice was or was not constitutional or legitimate . |
| 3 | Rufus was not squeamish , he had not been one of those medical students who become nauseous at their first sight of surgery , but , curiously enough he did not much like to think of all those odd little bones , so alien to him , so unidentifiable , being dug up and sorted out and sifted through in case there should be a human fibula among them or a vertebra . |
| 4 | Still , it was them or a book . |
| 5 | In presenting the main commentary , remember that readers will either have the original table before them or a number of tabular extracts presented by you to clarify points of interest . |
| 6 | Process is the word used to describe how someone or a group is tackling a task . |
| 7 | The other point I 'm trying to say is that we have to insure with a Department of Trade approved insurer , so that should anything , for any reason , ever happen to ourselves or a company , then the insurance company is still responsible for the claims and will meet them . |
| 8 | cover your face/nose with warm hands ( yours or a friend 's ) |
| 9 | Mention has been made to the paperwork , I think that it 's worth reminding ourselves that a lot of the paperwork that has been generated , is a direct result of Conservative government introduced legislation , particularly cri criminal justice er , legislation , which requires a considerable amount of paperwork , erm , to be completed by officers , quite often in long , in longhand , and not making use of technology , where in fact they er , a great deal of time and effort could be con , er could be er , saved . |
| 10 | Then erm names , babies I if a baby 's christened Timothy er it gets called Timmy or Nicholas gets called Nicky , which sort of ties in with the biscuits being called bickie and horsie and doggie and all this sort of ee things that you say to babies . |
| 11 | So I would , I and a couple of the fellas went to pull them to the aeroplane graveyard . |
| 12 | Said Danny , ‘ After I and a BR Personnel Manager had welcomed the men and women , Alan took over to talk about National Insurance contributions and benefits . |
| 13 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 14 | It may be that we have upset someone and a rift exists . |
| 15 | No , I would say that if an independent assessor has been dispatched to this is a good point worth bringing through in the event of erm a disagreement between ourselves and a policy holder , the policy holder has a number of aspects that they can they can approach . |
| 16 | A small painting of his provided a moment of calm reflection among those of his more raucous colleagues in Alana Heiss ' ‘ Slow Painting ’ show last summer at P.S.I . |
| 17 | If Karr was right , Herrick would have kept copies of all his jobs-as a precaution . |
| 18 | It 's one thing if you 're fully staffed but if you think that whichever of my boys is on guard duty for the day is responsible for the shopping as well as the cooking , and I have to put another boy on guard as substitute to him and another at the disposition of the local magistrate , and I 've two out on motor-bike patrol — where am I when a case like this comes up and I 've got to be out ? ’ |
| 19 | Nor do I for a moment suppose that anyone there recognized him , nor was he the sort of author who basked in that kind of admiration . |
| 20 | You have yours as a proprietor , but I have mine too . |
| 21 | erm and there was nothing that a Member of Parliament could do , this is the trouble I mean it , it with everybody was saying you should of contacted us before it went |
| 22 | Yes , there is nothing wrong with you , nothing that a rest can not cure . |
| 23 | The chart-room section held nothing that a chart-room should not have had , including a locked cupboard which Talbot opened in the same cavalier fashion he had used on the bridge : it held only pilot books and sailing directions . |
| 24 | It 's an age-old problem and nothing that a dab of string lubricant or Vaseline would n't cure . |
| 25 | It may be argued that such distinctions between what machines can do and what only humans can do are of merely temporary interest , since in principle there is nothing that a human can do that a machine might not be devised , some day , to do . |
| 26 | Tennis Courts are still in the District 's possession but , to date the tennis club has made no move to make use of them although a meeting had been arranged . |
| 27 | Tennis Courts are still in the District 's possession but , to date the tennis club has made no move to make use of them although a meeting had been arranged . |
| 28 | It does seem likely to me that a North-South divide will be greatly deepened ; that the still weak by nonetheless unmistakeable pressures towards democratisation in some of the Arab societies will be lost , not least because the war and the allies will put such a premium on harsh social and political controls in what many will see as potentially revolutionary situations . |
| 29 | It 's astonishing to me that a boy whose father and grandfather have both been soldiers before him should have such a poorly developed sense of loyalty arid duty . " |
| 30 | She added : ‘ The Garda authorities inform me that a quantity of spent ammunition rounds was recovered in the course of the search , and that these are currently undergoing forensic examination . |