Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Leave it to me , Fran , and trust me to make all the arrangements . ’ |
| 2 | No , I change me mind this week , eh , I bought some erm , I bought |
| 3 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 4 | The assistants try and make them fill this in . |
| 5 | As Josephus says : ‘ They also do not value dying any kind of death , nor indeed do they heed the deaths of their relations and friends , nor can any such fear make them call any man Lord … ’ |
| 6 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 7 | ‘ You make me feel all limp and incompetent . ’ |
| 8 | I mean everyone does these things , do n't they ? ’ |
| 9 | In fact I go out of my way ( I mean I walk several streets out of my way ) to make myself seen . |
| 10 | and it 's all I mean I use this gel stuff |
| 11 | Yeah I mean I hope all , I will be able t all I will do is say well we 've got about fifty bloody criteria here . |
| 12 | ‘ I mean I hope all resemblance is purely physical . |
| 13 | well no , I 'm only wearing me bloody coat and the skirt and er grey tights that 's all , er whatever up top I mean I hope that , have a look , I hope it 's gon na be a better bus anyway this week |
| 14 | I mean I done all the front here last weekend |
| 15 | I mean I got that with my interview at I should be grateful if you would |
| 16 | I mean I got that one , see it ? |
| 17 | Er yes Mr Chairman , I mean I assume this thing gives us a fairly embryonic stage , I hope it 's not intended in any way as a finished article , it seems to me in many cases er a state into the obvious er I 'd hope that our employees would be polite people , erm you know this is a great step forward to putting down on a paper , I do n't know , but I mean |
| 18 | We do n't mind as long as we make I mean I prefer this because it is to order , we do n't make them to stock . |
| 19 | Yeah , primary I think , roundabout primary four or five , cos that 's when they start talking about it , and that 's where you start getting all the the wrong things told to you in the playground , I mean I know that 's what happened to me . |
| 20 | No , I mean I know that is is not exactly pertinent to the application that is er in , erm I my personal view is that that that bungalows are are practical , we have had it stated by one resident that a house and a bungalow would be acceptable , erm not that I am er anticipating any other planning develop er applications by these applicants but er would a house of a similar nature to one of these that they have proposed , plus a bungalow er , would we have as much opposition to this , to that as as the present ones , or you would prefer to defer until you saw it ? |
| 21 | Well , I I find that totally impossible , I mean I know that , I 've been in that plot thousand of times . |
| 22 | I mean I know that now because I never thought I 'd be on the scrap heap , but sometimes I really do feel as if I am |
| 23 | I mean I know that 's not very |
| 24 | Cos if you put survey instead of census at the bottom , I mean I know that 's not strictly speaking how it should be , but they must have signs for us to survey because they have their own , presumably they have their own surveyors go out and |
| 25 | I mean I know that someone got erm suspended for |
| 26 | I mean I know that 's one of me doubles . |
| 27 | I mean I know that 's what your aim is , but are you confident that 's what 's going to happen ? |
| 28 | I mean I know some of the , some of the more slender women , I wo n't say skinny here , what , are n't in need of a tummy tuck , but well there 's you as a twenty two Scottish women would spend two thousand pounds , what do you think of that ? |
| 29 | And I could actually give you , I mean I 've all I 've got is a cheque stub . |
| 30 | I mean I thought that migration was the er , would be the cure of all ills , in that , you know , we 've got wage differentials here in this , in this hypothetical economy . |