Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Studies of such drugs in food-intolerant patients have shown that a large proportion of them suffer from these minor enzyme deficiencies ( see p 233 ) . |
| 2 | A human touch was added to Nash 's report : ‘ I could heartily wish more respect were paid to the remains of this amiable though unfortunate Queen , and would willingly , with proper leave , have them wrapt in another sheet of lead and coffin , and decently interred in some proper place , that at least after her death her body might remain in peace ; whereas the Chapel where she now lies is used for the keeping of rabbits , which make holes and scratch very indecently about her Royal corpse . ’ |
| 3 | Some of them appear in this book , but all of them were immeasurably helpful in developing my thoughts . |
| 4 | The Opposition replied , ’ That was 10 years ago ’ , to which my hon. Friend the Member for Teignbridge ( Mr. Nicholls ) , whom I commend for this observation , said , that 10 years was a very long time for the Leader of the Opposition and 10 minutes was about the average length of every policy that he had put forward . |
| 5 | This is the experiment and experience I commend to any business man or industrialist who wants to meet the challenge of the ideological crisis of our times . |
| 6 | It follows that I award for this period of care by the plaintiff 's parents the sum of fifteen thousand pounds which equates to an award of three pounds hourly for five thousand hours . |
| 7 | My dearest love , I chatter about all sorts of odd news , when I really only want to tell you that my real self is in your keeping . |
| 8 | Again , I repeat with this problem of unemployment and so on , and the really obscene level of unemployment in this country at the moment — absolutely shocking I think — and I think the universities have to address themselves to that problem . |
| 9 | Well it 's a bit i well I , well I could do but it 's a bit tricky I mean to some |
| 10 | I mean for that er |
| 11 | I mean for this market research one , we ought to finish this tonight because if she comes tomorrow |
| 12 | It wor i I mean for those it did work |
| 13 | I mean with all that stuff about little coteries , and cosy dinner-parties , and so on … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ This is the time , and I am saying what I mean with all my heart . |
| 15 | Cos he 's bound , I mean with all that mud and everything , I mean there 's lots of sheep droppings and god knows what up there is n't there ? |
| 16 | Yeah well I mean with all this noise and that you do n't feel like doing much do you ? |
| 17 | That 's what I mean with that Jean you probably wo n't need vitamins . |
| 18 | Well I do n't know about that , I mean with some schools it 'd be a good idea to get them away from it . |
| 19 | I mean with this exhibition that we 've booked ‘ Just the Job ’ , which is black women erm and the kind of jobs that they 've got , a large percentage are carers and erm and it is the thing that erm women feel that they can do and it erm in a way that it comes out of their role in the home , the caring role , and erm and it 's a role that they get sort of erm trapped into and it does n't pay very much money , as Brenda was saying earlier . |
| 20 | Well they were , they were really dependent on , I mean on each other , they were a unit even though they were two families in a way |
| 21 | ‘ That is n't what I mean at all . |
| 22 | That 's not what I mean at all . |
| 23 | I mean at that time say perhaps go in the pub the or the or the , I mean there used to be so many pubs round the er , the dock area then , I mean you take the , and erm then there used to be the erm there was all them pubs round the dock then , noth one or two more but I ca n't re oh the was another one . |
| 24 | I mean we 've , I mean at that point you 've got that was the point where you 've got the massive United States aid coming in erm you , you 've got erm United States equipping China with all enormous fire power , sending tanks in etcetera , I mean this was the beginning of , of the realization of the United States that , that the communists were a threat and they did n't like it and they , they were putting massive ai aid erm and , and that there was all that United States war machine erm |
| 25 | I mean at that point I would either do that , you know er change it or that would have been it |
| 26 | Well this is about , I mean at this point it 's about one o'clock in the morning . |
| 27 | Well we were n't anyway there was very few pe , I mean at this time of the year I suppose but there was one place and it said Sunday lunch , there was a sort of black board outside , Sunday lunch erm four pound was it four fifty it was four fifty was n't it ? |
| 28 | Chairman you 've got to allow me because by the time I 've finished you wo n't be able to stop me , er , but I mean if there 's a lot of money floating about in this area then I think that er , some committee or other should be looking at the the refurbishment of the courts in Devizes which are a disgrace , and partly the fault of this council when th they were allowed to get into such a state , and I mean at some stage or other , something or else is gon na to have to happen to them and I would hope that the magistrates in their wisdom in some committee or other are , are deciding to take these courts back into use . |
| 29 | But I mean as any adoptive parent here will tell you , the strains when you adopt a child , or adopt children , very disturbed children are much worse ! |
| 30 | See what I mean about that skirt ? |