Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] and [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had whalebone in these stays and we used to cut pieces about half an inch long and in the daytime , I used to make a bag full and put them in between the doors and I 'd go round the first time and put them in and when I went round later , if that whalebone was missing , I 'd make enquiries . |
| 2 | He sat me down and as the camera whirred , I was encouraged to ramble about the past . |
| 3 | I do n't know ; they held me down and when I woke up I was in the back of a car on my way home . |
| 4 | He was a young er man er who was just er a young boy , he was promoting records and trying to get into the business and , and er he remembered me well , and when they found out that I was n't easy to , to reach , no-one knew where I was , he was able to track me down and when he told me that er I had this big hit record , I thought it was someone playing a joke on me , because here in America , they have a television show called The Blue Bird , where they play jokes on people and , and tell them things , and then they videotape you and then there 's a funny reaction that this is a big television show . |
| 5 | Now the problem with that model of proceeding is that you then end up with you can end up with the exploitation of complain procedures for a wide variety of , not all of which you want to countenance , and some of the universities ' and colleges ' experience of trying to run complaint procedures in connection with sexual harassment has been deciding when to try to cool someone down and when a complaint is someone that should be run along with . |
| 6 | Ask if they have carried out a similar job for someone else and whether you can contact the customer to check if the job was satisfactory . |
| 7 | And then someone has a conversation with someone else and then someone else has a conversation with someone else and if a man was to walk right the way through the police station he has about five or six conversations , and by the time he gets to the other end of the police station he 's forgotten the first conversation . |
| 8 | Sunil had sent three of them tonight and if he kept that rate up they 'd need a double-decker bus to follow me by Christmas Eve . |
| 9 | It seems to me highly likely that the killer had locked himself in and that he got away during that fifteen minutes . ’ |
| 10 | Yeah I agree with that , if you know somebody well , especially if you know somebody well and if you work with people and you communicate with people you build up trust , and if the communication 's there and people are talking to each other and passing on information , information 's going round and round trust 'll be there , the only time trust disappears is when somebody feels somebody 's keeping something back . |
| 11 | And then you 've consulted somebody else and if the say no go ahead and sell the shares and if two days later they 've gone through the roof it 's unfortunate . |
| 12 | Jordan — My world caved in when he went , basically because he wanted to better himself financially and because he thought Leeds were never going to be a force under Jimmmy Armfield . |
| 13 | There 's a lorry loaded up with a lot of engines , and it goes off dropping them off and as it as you take an engine so N is the number of engines taken off . |
| 14 | The theory of politics argues , on the supply side , that political parties , in bidding for support , end up by promising more than they can deliver and that , on the demand side , this leads to inflated expectations since the electorate have incentives to vote for increased services because they do not pay for them directly and because there may be little correlation between tax payments and government benefits . |
| 15 | That you see the struggle as demanding too much from you personally and so you want to get right away from it for a while ? ’ |
| 16 | If you went to an estate agent you may if they 're willing to er have one or two estate agent staff to help you out and if you went to a golf club you would be likely to have the pro or the secretary help you out . |
| 17 | ‘ I believe the storm has now blown itself out and that 1993 is a year for recovery and replanting . ’ |
| 18 | The recommendations in paragraph ten er ask you to approve the capital programme and the revenue budget and the staffing for the committee and that , that 's the increase of the one post I mean I referred to you earlier and if the committee approves this budget , will put forward to the Policy and Resources Committee on the thirty first of January which will consolidate the budgets for all the er services and make final decisions on how that 's to be and reset for the next . |
| 19 | If you 're going out alone — arrange for your parents , a relative or friend , to take you there and if possible to bring you back . |
| 20 | The sergeant was chasing you round and if they came round and saw you coming out of a shop , you had to have a good explanation . |
| 21 | She woke me up and when I discovered the fire I got my mum and dad out of the house . |
| 22 | I 'll put the the back one on and and just boil the the water . |
| 23 | why they do n't change over in this country because we 're the odd one out and if they make cars they 've got ta make them with the steering wheel one side or the other |
| 24 | I think there is there there is there is an issue that it is n't as simple as just where are we today and and and where are the boundaries of the settlement as Mr Williamson said . |
| 25 | The slighted Samaritan can , of course , reply on her own behalf that she does care about suffering in general but that she cares much more about its manifestations that she can do something about and that involve her personally . |
| 26 | In your professional work after you have qualified , you will rarely be allowed time to do everything twice and so you had better learn now . |
| 27 | Creggan held his breath for he knew that though she was speaking of him as if he was not there really it was she who had become something else and that some power was using her to speak to him directly . |
| 28 | The defendants may then have to meet this ‘ provisional burden ’ by adducing evidence that their purpose was something else and that it was legitimate , without affecting the ‘ legal burden ’ of proof . |
| 29 | My parents are going to France at Christmas and erm I do n't wan na go with them really and nor does Digby so he , Digby 's gon na come and stay just for a bit and my house it has to be empty and Foxy 's coming round to stay . |
| 30 | They found that the swamp was forcing them back and that they could no longer keep even an erratic southward course but were withdrawing towards the east , away from where they believed the Outlaws ' Camp lay . |