Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Girouard in The Return to Camelot pointed out that the chivalric code of conduct ‘ never recovered from the Great War partly because the War itself was such a shattering of illusions , partly because it helped to produce a world in which the necessary conditions for chivalry were increasingly absent ’ and that the absence of so many men at the Front ‘ had put women in a position of responsibility which made many of them distrust chivalry as a form of concealed slavery ’ . |
| 2 | You 'd be surprised , some of them make bookings with the beautician and hairdresser even before they come on board . ’ |
| 3 | In other words , manners not only make the man , but lack of them make men into animals . |
| 4 | The ‘ state ’ thus becomes literally a bone of contention between opposed interests , both of whom want control over it in order to decide what precisely its role shall be and in whose interest the market shall be managed . |
| 5 | It always amazes me build things like that |
| 6 | the Gloucester team to face Bristol is being kept secret but there 's nothing hush hush about our next guest he 's the man who 'll be riding motor bikes for the Oxford Products Team in the British Championship this season … |
| 7 | Yeah and then she 's already cut it up into twelfths like this and then she thinks about asking them who wants pizza and there 's only four of them want pizza after all this trouble . |
| 8 | And I shall have him flogged in their sight when I perceive dissension to our wise governance . |
| 9 | I change 15% of the water weekly and syphon the substrate once a fortnight . |
| 10 | ANDREW SMITH 'S TIP : I change part of the water in the rearing tank about once every other day with water of the same quality and temperature . |
| 11 | At the moment I change part of the water and rinse out the foam insert in the filter about every ten days , but I also feed the fish daily , so cleaning is necessary . |
| 12 | Essential meaning I introduce Gerry to a few friendly drinks . |
| 13 | I jut hope to god Fashanu and John Scales sought themselves out . |
| 14 | Allow myself to be spirited off to Germany where I assassinate Hitler at the first opportunity ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ When I deny things in an existence out of the mind , I do not mean my own mind in particular , but all minds . |
| 16 | They go because they need to cover some sort of guilt , I 'm convinced of that now , the more people that I know I mean fib of all people fib is now turned to religion . |
| 17 | He also said , I mean groups of people who are not answerable to wider collective membership . |
| 18 | Anyway that , that I mean lack of experience , lack of knowledge and , put that down to , probably but that 's just another story . |
| 19 | Famine , the Army , I mean lack of rain and all that sort of thing . |
| 20 | erm you know kind of er call that a first draft and then sort , you know , sort of try and sort of go through the books again and stick a few references in to back up the points you 've made so you can see it relates to other people 's evidence erm trying to go through it again and knock out the well you know what I mean kind of statements and , and , you know , you can gradually sort of make the er grad you know sort of but again it 's , it 's , it 's one of these processes that I find , you know , you need to go through again and again and again to sort of get it er get it together erm so erm |
| 21 | Erm we need tables , I mean chaps like like Mike and Roger with their big legs they just ca n't under them . |
| 22 | I mean plans for education ? |
| 23 | I mean feelings on the matter . |
| 24 | I mean majority of blokes at Dave 's firm have changed their cars three times . |
| 25 | But what I ca n't understand , I mean majority of people I mean erm you 've got ta pay the debt in the end whatever . |
| 26 | That 's right , it 's different for different people over there , I mean Mark over there who has n't been with the company very long erm , I mean , my existing calls I mean I , I know them sort of to , to drink with more or less you know , but |
| 27 | And I mean look at my private culture . |
| 28 | ( Sanford , 1988 ) It is complete with competing predilections , schools , logics , methods , and terminologies — and indeed competing conceptions of the subject , by which I mean conceptions of just what " if " statements are properly treated together . |
| 29 | Well I , I mean assumptions about rich peasant what 's he gon na do , buy a factory or something ? |
| 30 | But I mean stuff like memos small memos and things like that by the time I 've sat and written it out I could 've put it straight onto a word processor myself and got it typed . |