Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm also an alternative therapist and I do find that this is one of the major problems , that ninety percent of my patients who come to me suffer from stress and depression , and really what has happened in a lot of cases is that they have been put on valium and drugs , they find the side effects are horrific ! |
| 2 | Day after day many of them sit at desks confined by four walls , their eyes glued to figures , their minds hassled by the problems of business . |
| 3 | You know because we often talk to artists and we ask you know how it happened and and most of them say like topsy it just grew er that that there 's no planned career but with you with the tours er set and the album set it it seems to be more of a controlled career with you two . |
| 4 | At times in the past there must have been tenderness between the members of this family ; the old lady had conceived and given birth to two children , nursed them and watched them grow into adult life . |
| 5 | And , as subscribers with decades ' worth of Punch purchasing behind them testify on pages 56–59 , the effect was a bit like the first plunge into an icy pool : shocking at first , but pleasantly bracing once you got used to it . |
| 6 | ( David Rockefellers older brother Nelson , who had recently died , had been almost a friend of the Shah ) Would either of them fly to Morocco and tell the Shah that the US government preferred that he did not come to America right now ? |
| 7 | I side with Bob Templeton , the Australian coach , and his pragmatic approach . |
| 8 | The flight 's delayed but only slightly ; I change at Gatwick in breezy sunshine and the 146 touches down on Jersey in relatively balmy conditions . |
| 9 | I change at Baker Street . |
| 10 | I grin at Dressing-gown and I sing out nice and loud : ‘ Hallo , Tod , how are you ? |
| 11 | A useful approach , is to be found in Dawson and Stevens , Family Proceedings Court ( 1991 ) which I commend to practitioners in this field and to justices and their clerks . |
| 12 | I refrain from sarcasm . |
| 13 | I chatter with enthusiasm whilst knobs of butter slide off the fishes ' backs and sizzle to blister bubbles . |
| 14 | We have three levels of communicative assessments ( covering roughly the first three years of the secondary curriculum ) which I coordinate on behalf of EMREB and the LEAs . |
| 15 | I mean of course about yourself and the little girls , the possibility of your returning to Halifax . " |
| 16 | And noting the widening of the haughty eyes , amended : ‘ I mean of course , sir , what are your orders ? ’ |
| 17 | Mother would n't have anything to do with it whatsoever , do n't you bring anything , any of that stuff into our house , I mean of course it be this New Zealand lamb had just arrived on the scene before the First Word War , I mean nobody was , anybody dare have it I mean they 'd be standing on the pavement at eleven o'clock at night almost giving it away on Saturday night , but anyway that 's all changed now , we all eat it . |
| 18 | But I mean of course they plugged me up with all sorts of things . |
| 19 | I mean of course you 're going to be judged adversely perhaps , but i in a church you are being listened to by people who are of like mind , and therefore willing you to have something of value and interest to say to them . |
| 20 | Yeah it 's like with me , I mean of course do n't forget that I 've got a good two hundred pounds to come on about the fifth of December from the British Legion 's savings . |
| 21 | No I mean of course not |
| 22 | well how can you not get somewhat attached to a child , I mean of course there 's children you do n't like , like adults you do n't like |
| 23 | She reported very little to us , I mean to Dieter . |
| 24 | family house , but I mean for space and that sort of |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't mean your chairs , I mean for visitors . ’ |
| 26 | Money is tight so we need to be quite clear on I mean for instance I mean the seats have been recovered you know people smoking in the seats when they should n't be smoking and putting they 're putting their cigarette 's out on the floor I do n't know |
| 27 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 28 | I mean for instance is a national account at do any business with us , do they ? |
| 29 | erm if if like I mean for instance we were n't clear about what we were talking about |
| 30 | And er you know he was I mean for instance at Salisbury Park he probably did n't mean anything but on Saturday when I was saying goodbye to him he said now I hope there 'll be somebody here at ten past ten to open this church tomorrow . |