Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's got no one of her own to turn to in this country , but the notion that I can help her to clear Rick is so fantastic it is n't true . |
| 2 | A mother otter will bring a half-dead fish and give it to her young to play with in a pool so that they may practice the dives and swoops that are needed to be a successful underwater hunter . |
| 3 | Alan Morgan , our Chair since nineteen eighty-six and active in the organisation for years before , is not standing this year as Chair , for a very happy reason which you all know about from the erm , literature on your seats . |
| 4 | Do you all stay to on er Monday ? |
| 5 | What a good idea and those of you sitting round who have a lot of Asian students at your universities , I 'm sure that 's a very good idea for you all to think about for next year . |
| 6 | Something metallic slithered from beneath her bed and vacuumed the debris away , before slipping back under the bed and deactivating with a click . |
| 7 | yeah and he 's spotted racism in the Atkinson et al textbook and all sorts of , all over the place so erm mm there should be something interesting to talk about in that for a start . |
| 8 | Many of the symptoms shown by food-intolerant and chemical-sensitive patients are symptoms that we all suffer from at times — headaches , tiredness and indigestion for example . |
| 9 | And course he 'd frightened himself and er I counted up to about eight , nine and ten I said to him , Look when you go inside that bloody gate now I said go straight into the office sit down and think for a minute where the hell are we all going to in this carry on ? |
| 10 | Once again it 's just superb hearing it booming from those religious-like boxes that we all pray to at the weekends . |
| 11 | The usual remedy was the special action of trespass on the case for negligently allowing one 's fire to escape in contravention of the general custom of the realm which we first hear of in Beaulieu v. Finglam . |
| 12 | Oh , what are they bloody playing at for , and do n't say bloody football either |
| 13 | They they all lived in in a small area that had been completely bombed . |
| 14 | They all promised to at least study my proposals . |
| 15 | Erm it would have been better if they 'd given you some information to say , They all voted for at least one |
| 16 | To our surprise and to many people 's relief , they all broke at about the same load , the strength of the wet and the dry ones being very much the same . |
| 17 | The two companies say they are confident they can comply with the licences , which they first applied for in March 1991 . |
| 18 | But where they address discourses of ‘ race ’ , sexuality , age , and class among subjects , they seem to find them difficult to deal with on their own terms . |
| 19 | Mhm do you have do you have a lo I mean is it is it easy to get to in touch say you want to in an emergency , to get in touch with anyone phone , is it is it easy to get to a phone ? |
| 20 | It is popular for its special scenery of lakes , hills , woods and forests and because the M6 motorway makes it easy to get to from many parts of England . |
| 21 | I think a lot of people tend to find it hard to get by on a , a monthly pay packet as it is |
| 22 | It 's interesting to see what it all looks like in the grand scope of things . ’ |
| 23 | Swindon Town still have it all to play for in their quest for a place in the Premier League , but the sounds emanating from this Manchester Road recording studio are enough to frighten the life out of their play-off rivals . |
| 24 | In describing her daily life every woman interviewed outlined the kind of standards she thought it important to stick to in housework , and the type of routine she used to achieve this end . |
| 25 | My sister , younger than me , with children of her own and perhaps thereby with a clearer measure of what we lacked , reminds me of a mother who never played with us , whose eruptions from irritation into violence were the most terrifying of experiences , and she is there , the figure of nightmares , though I do find it difficult to think about in this way . |
| 26 | And I 've found it harder to cope with in the last two or three years . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the individual speaker 's ability to carry out successful linguistic " acts of identity " is subject to a number of limitations : We can only behave according to the behavioural patterns of groups we find it desirable to identify with to the extent that : ( i ) we can identify the groups ( ii ) we have both adequate access to the groups and ability to analyse their behavioural patterns ( iii ) the motivation to join the groups is sufficiently powerful , and is either reinforced or reversed by feedback from the groups ( iv ) we have the ability to modify our behaviour ( Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 1985 : 182 ) |
| 28 | Not only is he fun to look at with his bright colours , he 's very durable too and more than able to withstand the very worst kind of punishment little ones are capable of dishing out ! |
| 29 | He finds it hard to talk about what that sounds like without laughing . |
| 30 | I can say to my honourable friend , the member for Rydale who takes such a close interest and is so well informed er on these matters , er I 'm very grateful to him for the welcome he 's given for the orders here , he 's absolutely right to say that we have gone beyond er what restrictive called for by Bingham , we have extended it to other sectors in the financial we welcomed the honourable gentleman from Edinburgh Central that these er orders are in some way timid , they are what was called for by the treasury select committee , they are what was proposed er by Bingham and we have er introduced them er here tonight . |