Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , erm I read up quite a lot of things about keeping pests away , but I do n't dad reads them and tells me about them , but I forget cos they have to go back |
| 2 | Oh he came from an old , I think he came from a very old er , there was , there was a General , first world war , erm , well the last time I heard anything about Cake , well , he was , he 'd , he 'd left the Signals section , he was the when I left India , and the last time I heard anything about him , I read it in , in a paper in erm , when the troubles were on and he was brig brigadier in charge of an infantry brigade , about my age , well , a , probably a year or two older than me , cos he was a , yeah he was a lieutenant when I got out there a full lieutenant , so he must of been a captain . |
| 3 | I played on there a good many times . |
| 4 | So I turned down quite a few sitcoms . |
| 5 | ‘ I mean , no thank you , ’ I manage in almost a normal voice . |
| 6 | which is being drawn to your attention I know over again a number of er months and years . |
| 7 | I worked in quite a few departments in the Co-op erm and I was secretary to the education er in those days , whereas Miss member relations er in the , when I was there we were just education department with an educational secretary and erm then , he , we did all the staff training as well . |
| 8 | On the buzzer I rolled over quite a large flathead , but it missed , and that was a fish much bigger than the flatheads both Kate and Ben were catching with great rapidity on fish portions . |
| 9 | I go out there a lot . ’ |
| 10 | Yeah , I came I went up about a year ago , I remember when I went down to Hertford in the yeah , I said I , I forgot to say what ticket and they automatically give you an adult do n't they ? |
| 11 | I thought mine had n't come out , then when I went out there a little while ago it had come out , but so late in the year moved it , it was all in big clump under the oh I 've got great big clump under the tree and not one of them , either of them had a , a bloom on , so I said useless , |
| 12 | Stuart and I went out together a few times . |
| 13 | You know we have a considerable holding of er , land immediately adjacent to the reasonable shopping centre there and erm , if and when things become buoyant again and I went down there a couple of weeks and I was rather impressed by , by the look of the area , then clearly land prices go up and we have the capacity to , to generate more profit . |
| 14 | and I took up quite a few , thinned them out and my sister |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said softly , ‘ I work up quite a sweat . ’ |
| 16 | Right , well I work in quite a number of Community Centres across the City , and Northway Community Centre which has a bar with quite a large turnover , a lot of members , er has agreed to host this project for the week , which is promoting healthier drinking . |
| 17 | The infantry detailed to guard them let off only a couple of volleys before also taking to their heels . |
| 18 | It seems a couple of them came out here a time or two , asked a few questions , shrugged their shoulders and took themselves off . ’ |
| 19 | The lane wound in wide loops all the way to Applewick , but by footpath there was a short cut across a field , through a wood , and then across another field , which came out only a few yards beyond the low bridge . |
| 20 | We have our debt itself , the gross debt , which came down about a hundred and twenty million and that is all set by a substantially increased cash balance . |
| 21 | Her whole idea of the world 's work was derived from what she observed there and had little in common with the circulation of the great city which toiled on only a hundred yards away . |
| 22 | er because I think if I , if I put one , my one big bag , which takes up about a third , er , er |
| 23 | Example 2 is a typical Hendrix-style fill which sets up either a G major chord ( as in the example ) or an E minor chord . |
| 24 | In the seventies the women 's movement exposed the prevalence of violence against women and provided safe passage in the network of refuges which exist in about a hundred cities . |
| 25 | Frank et al prospectively examined women who had an unplanned pregnancy at recruitment which ended in either an induced abortion ( n=433 ) or naturally ( n=1035 ) . |
| 26 | She lives with her mam and dad , a cleaner and welder respectively , and does a bit of housework , though her mam still does the cooking , and she goes out once a week . |
| 27 | He can be denied the nomination only by an extraordinary blocking coalition of ‘ super-delegates ’ — party bigwigs who make up nearly a fifth of the voting delegates at the convention — and delegates already won by Tsongas and by Brown , plus a handful of delegates ( more than a tenth of the total ) who are already pledged as ‘ uncommitted ’ . |
| 28 | Could you hang on just a couple of minutes ? |
| 29 | Would you would you hang on just a minute ? |
| 30 | Could you hang on just a minute do n't go away just stay there hold on . |