Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [num] [n mass] " in BNC.
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1 | I mean , okay , Peter give us it on Friday but would n't you have thought , I mean thirty quid |
2 | I mean twenty quid . |
3 | I make four quid . |
4 | you make your sound and you carry on and on and on , I 'm gon na keep on taping different people 's make their sound and then we 're gon na see what it feels like you 're in hospital , okay , now it does n't matter if somebody 's got the same sound as somebody else , it 's no big deal , alright , because eventually they 'll all blend into each other , but as soon as I 've tapped you , make your sound , alright patients , come on where 's the machines ? okay , stop , now when did it start becoming out of hand ? , at one stage we did n't really know where we were to , once , once I say ten people , okay , and that was also due to the fact that we had perhaps too many erm patients moaning , alright , it was good in one respect because why , it made obvious that we were in a , a hospital well something like , but erm when you 're in smaller groups and you 're making your sound machines , obviously it 's much easier to control and to make the overall sound more realistic , do n't you think ? , so , mm , what we 're going to do is we 're going to get into different groups , into groups of four , five , no big deal , you 're welcome to only if you want to , and , you 're going to , each group is going to choose er a profession , okay , you can be brick layers , you can be er musicians , er you can be er gardener , I mean absolutely you can be factory workers , you can be absolutely anything , and what you 're going to do is you 're going to choose , each person will choose a sound which is represented of that particular person , er profession , okay , and you 'll going to make your sounds simultaneously so that as for the audience who are simply listening to you can just close our eyes cos we wo n't , you wo n't be acting you 'll be making these sounds and using , we 'll close our eyes and we 'll know exactly where we are , okay , and then after that once we 've done that just , before you choose your profession to know what this is going to lead onto , after that we 're going to put movements to that profession , so when , if you were in a factory going er putting bottles on , on top top of bottles , you would have the movements going and you would have the sound going and I want you to build up , up , the sound machine which becomes the movement machine as well , so you 're almost robotic so you , shh , shh , or whatever , however your sound , and each person does their thing in the factory or where ever they are and we will be able to see from listening and looking at the movements and obviously remember just because you 're not an example it does n't mean you ca n't talk , there might be for instance there would be a doctor going stand back , stand back , you know , er , in , in the you can use voices , but also obviously very , very effective to have sound voices , shh , shh , to create that part of it , have instruments , but this is how they actually started lay down sound tracks for movies , people specialize |
5 | I want eighty pence off him . |
6 | Well I want forty quid really . |
7 | Well considering I put thirty quid in to fill the tank yesterday . |
8 | oh yeah , I put seven quid in |
9 | I put ten pence in the other day |
10 | Yeah , I know One pair of those tights were seven ninety nine , it 's no wonder I thought they were nice when I looked at them . |
11 | I know four people who are going to the party and that 's it . |
12 | Some of them you you might do in your head , like you think , Well I know twenty percent is one fifth , so I 'll just divide that by five and that 's seven pounds . |
13 | ‘ Now , is n't that a funny thing ? — I get two people meeting in a town like this , and would n't you know it ? — their paths have crossed before . |
14 | I get thirty quid a month . |
15 | I get twenty pence coming from them you see er |
16 | It was never even mentioned afterwards and I reckon 99 percent of players at that time would have sacked me . |
17 | if I pay four pence to you . |
18 | I said the thing is that I pay sixty pence for five well I said it costs me another sixty pence to come and change them ! |
19 | ‘ I pay ten pence rent , and the rest just about buys me paraffin for my stove and for my lamp , and a little milk and tea and bread and margarine . |
20 | They can go round the corner to the , er I go to a church club er and I pay twenty-five pence and that includes my raffle and a cup of tea you see . |
21 | To make invisibly mounted brass nameplates cut a brass disc of the appropriate diameter and thickness ; I use 1 mm sheet , and 1 mm diameter . |
22 | I use 14 ml tubes of Artists ' quality watercolour paint , and mix cerulean , French ultramarine , violet , Payne 's grey , cobalt and neutral tint to achieve that elusive colour . |
23 | erm I think two people have had tremendous problems and again must have been going up and down St Aldate 's , because they were very busy officials , was Edward Hyde , who later became Earl of Clarendon and wrote his story of the war , again of course from the Royalist point of view , and his great friend , Lord Falkland , who was Secretary of State for the King , and became so upset and worried by the rash policies of the Queen 's party and the general atmosphere of intrigue , and by the war itself , that he does seem to have more or less committed suicide at the battle of Newbury , by riding ahead of his troops into the enemy . |
24 | Secondly of course there are opportunities and limitations to your , the resources that you have and I 've mentioned resources before , they can be economic , military , your education system erm you know at the moment the government 's expanding higher education , going up , well we 've , we 've touched already I think thirty percent now in higher education one of the reasons for that is not just to , for self-fulfilment for those who are erm involved in higher education as I 'm sure you 're all self-fulfilling yourself here today , it 's because of what is perceived to be a national need for a highly educated workforce . |
25 | I think four people are dead already . |
26 | We kicked off at eleven and went on till three and there were I think six people stuffing er in the course of the day Bob Andy Mark and myself and Chris . |
27 | Er , I did go on H R T because of the osteoporosis risk , but I was unlucky I was one of the I think twelve percent who had developed breast trouble and had to come off it . |
28 | In fact in the State I think twenty percent of er all products are sold through network marketing now |
29 | In the end I think three people turned up . |
30 | Erm no seriously I think it really should n't take long , you 're quite right to sort this matter out but I think three people really should go away and come back with a suggestion or a couple of suggestions . |