Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I mean if a particular group 's promoting a product which we 're already using , then I might switch investment to that product if there 's a big discount . |
| 2 | I mean if a load of fellas in together like Sunday lunchtime |
| 3 | But let's face it I mean if a lot of local authorities are in similar sorts of positions and a lot of balances are building up , well the money just might run away might n't it it 's happened before , I think it might happen again . |
| 4 | Well I do n't expect they will , but er I mean if a number of them were interested enough , I mean people are away on holiday at that time , but , if we thought , if we got the response we could , what do you think ? |
| 5 | I mean if a garage leaves the sump plug loose or does n't erm put it back in , then obviously the whoever has done that work , if they are a legitimate erm service department would be more than happy to put that right and would apologise obviously , and the claim would obviously lie with them . |
| 6 | Yes , they 'd , they 'd get paid twice , oh for letting 'em go and roping 'em in , I mean when a ship was swinging there 's somebody , I mean when a ship was swinging at Cliff Quay , there 's somebody got ta let go of the erm , the spring what they 're swinging on . |
| 7 | Yes , they 'd , they 'd get paid twice , oh for letting 'em go and roping 'em in , I mean when a ship was swinging there 's somebody , I mean when a ship was swinging at Cliff Quay , there 's somebody got ta let go of the erm , the spring what they 're swinging on . |
| 8 | One day , I fear that a demonstration of the kind I faced in 1982 will go wrong and someone will get hurt . |
| 9 | I fear that a strategic exceptions policy can be all too easily a euphemism for giving big companies more favourable treatment than small companies . |
| 10 | I stress that a council of the regions will be agreed next week which will probably become operative in January 1993 and on which the regions of Europe will be represented . |
| 11 | Truly I make but a stammering companion , I have no graces , and as for the wit you may have perceived in me when we met , you saw , you must have seen , only the glimmerings and glister of your own brilliance refracted from the lumpen surface of a dead Moon . |
| 12 | So I make that a hundred and thirteen a hundred and twenty three pounds , and the costs are thirty three pence ? |
| 13 | So I make that a hundred and thirteen a hundred and twenty three pounds with the costs sir thirty three pence . |
| 14 | ‘ I apprehend that a tribunal which is by law invested with power to affect the property of one of Her Majesty 's subjects , is bound to give such subject an opportunity of being heard before it proceeds : and that that rule is of universal application , and founded upon the plainest principles of justice . |
| 15 | ‘ I apprehend that a tribunal which is by law invested with power to affect the property of one of Her Majesty 's subjects , is bound to give such subject an opportunity of being heard before it proceeds : and that that rule is of universal application , and founded upon the plainest principles of justice . |
| 16 | I realise that a parking space next to an overflowing litter bin , in between a lorry full of cattle carcasses and a carload of adolescents playing heavy metal with their windows open on a sound system loud enough for Wembley Stadium , is not exactly the quintessential southern English landscape that would inspire a Constable painting , a Betjeman poem or an Elgar concerto — but it is the best you are going to get . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm sure you 'll understand what I mean when I say that a reader in , for example , Moscow would find your book very difficult to relate to . |
| 18 | And the fact that I say that a lot of these accidents happen because perhaps you 're not paying the attention , very often I 've been or know of situations where the bloke is really paying attention to what he 's doing and the still the unfortunate occurs . |
| 19 | I say that a psychologist deals with the things normal people say and do , while a psychiatrist deals with the things dotty people say and do . |
| 20 | I propose that a useful point to be considered by the doctor is whether a treatment would be clinically indicated for a private patient with unlimited personal resources . |
| 21 | I propose that a local joint commissioning body for medical and social care should be established , which would eliminate much of the sterile debate about the boundary between the two . |
| 22 | As far as er the honourable gentleman for Edinburgh Central is concerned , he said there was a case for a wider inquiry into the auditing o of companies , well that is not something specifically called for er by Bingham although I acknowledge that a case can be made for that but I think we want to be extremely careful before extending that in the way that he and the honourable member for Great Grimsby proposed beyond the direct er responsibility to the members or the owners of the company . |
| 23 | I suggest that a simpler approach to detecting the direction of motion of an object , one method of which was put forward by M Kumaran in July , is to use half a 74LS74 D-type flip-flop , as shown in the diagram , which performs exactly the same function . |
| 24 | I suggest that a few moments here on deck will suffice . ’ |
| 25 | I suggest that a lot of so-called ‘ equal opportunity ’ is based on political myth — ignoring our in-built sex differences . |
| 26 | The hon. Member for Gateshead , East looks doubtful , but in a debate in the other place yesterday , Baroness Hollis of Higham said : ’ Thirdly I suggest that a few functions would appropriately come up from the county councils . ’ |
| 27 | So anyway I went to Index cos I want I want and a watch I 'm looking for a watch cos , and I thought oh aye I come to rings , I thought well I owe her a ring so I thought oh better half eternity ring they 're cheap anyway . |
| 28 | But I sense that a male-voice choir leading the crowd , complete with their distributed song sheets , through Welsh anthems is a trifle zealous . |
| 29 | She said drily : ‘ I imagine that a man 's idea of the ideal secretary is a woman who manages to imply that she would like to go to bed with her boss but nobly restrains herself in the interests of office efficiency . |
| 30 | I imagine that a psychiatrist , for example , would apply the word to the behaviour of a patient according to rather technical criteria which would indeed provide an analogy with what a sanitary engineer means by good sewage effluent . |