Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The screen is divided vertically into time periods ranging from minutes — for arranging a meeting — to years , presumably for scheduling your life . |
| 2 | So issuers who want to get the most for selling their shares tend to prefer book-building , even though fees are higher . |
| 3 | That 's what I hate most about keeping my head down . |
| 4 | ‘ One employer was going on about wanting someone under 35 and I said , ‘ Could I do the job ? ’ |
| 5 | I heard they were on about moving it to eighteen . |
| 6 | Yeah , well she was going on about bringing lots of money into the college but she might have to pay two hundred and twenty quid for a barn dance band if she 's not careful . |
| 7 | talking to one of these receptionists today and she says erm she 's been trying to get a bit of erm , she 's split up with her husband , trying to get , a bit of extra money together , you know , to be , she 's got her own house like , buying her own house and all this and that she 's fell into a bloody modelling job and saying get yourself a passport and er on about sending her off to either the South of France or Kenya |
| 8 | Who 's on about meeting us ? |
| 9 | So mind you , they 're on about getting their own car . |
| 10 | Your Stephen 's still on about getting his kitchen . |
| 11 | you did touch earlier on about welcoming which is at the forefront of my mind all the time . |
| 12 | On the other hand , what you 'll get is this continual lying going on about kidding everybody that everything 's better than it is and , of course , the eternal gratitude . |
| 13 | Well they 're on about backdating it to the third . |
| 14 | He rambled on about making his home here with Maria Luisa on this wonderful island . |
| 15 | Ah that 's I think I du n no , perhaps it is n't because he was on about having his car serviced were n't he ? |
| 16 | Serves him right for leaving it open . |
| 17 | I 'm afraid I lost my temper and said if he 'd fallen foul of the IRA it bloody well served him right for supporting them . ’ |
| 18 | Serve the slags right for beating us at home . |
| 19 | Well , it would serve them right for treating her like a baby . |
| 20 | ‘ Serves you right for overdoing it . ’ |
| 21 | As I said to her we 've got two shelves of hardbacks in the alcove because I do think they furnish a room as the man said , but I would n't be on for lending them out because you do n't know the condition they 'd come back in . |
| 22 | well then if I go onto a medium , then you 're getting all this length and all this business here , all that business and it 's too much , if I could of found a four I 'd certainly tried it on for swimming you know , but I do n't want it all baggy and horrible you know |
| 23 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 24 | I mean it , you know when you do it , when you put it on after shaving you think ooh you know |
| 25 | He was a normal child , but started behaving odly after taking his A levels . |
| 26 | I destroyed most after answering them , but three I do remember . |
| 27 | He must have been watching , presumably after finding his hideout violated . |
| 28 | A letter to a Front soldier from a citizen of Görlitz in late June or early July 1940 undoubtedly spoke for many in stating that , following the ‘ unimaginably great ’ events which had been seen each week in the newsreels , ‘ we will never be able to thank the Führer and brave army enough for sparing us at home the horrors of war ’ , and that an ‘ immensely great ’ future awaited Germany ‘ in the construction of Europe after the final victory ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Mr Jacobsen , I hardly think my alleged avoidance of you is justification enough for labelling me a man-hater . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ When I went to the opticians to see if my eyesight was good enough for driving she said it was beyond all medical explanation , it had to be a miracle , ’ he said . |