Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children whose parents set firm limits for them grow up better adjusted , with greater self-esteem , than those who are allowed to get away with behaving any way they like . |
| 2 | I mean not just trying but if you if you get chosen to play the violin it means practising and practising and staying with it so that you become a good violin player . |
| 3 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 4 | But the most important thing I thought was the thought process I mean just just saying this while you were just going on I just jotted down in the same way you could come off with three ideas that around and I felt that was that was ideal . |
| 5 | What happened in the days before freezers I mean well like going back to this you know when folk did n't have power . |
| 6 | And the trous I mean the jacket never I mean very rarely does a suit jacket style change . |
| 7 | Erm okay well in that case er what sort of time scale are we working to I mean how soon do you need somebody here ? |
| 8 | I mean how how does it |
| 9 | And what k what kind of response did you have erm from from erm tenants of the flats , I mean how how did you were people people generally friendly . |
| 10 | Yeah , oh we should explore that as , you know , erm I mean how far have do people like Communicado and |
| 11 | Now the opposing argument to that is that if you create a special environment during the educational phase of a child 's life , then what happens after that for his I mean how far have you then separated them off from the sort of life that they will have to lead thereafter . |
| 12 | I mean how long did it take that washer a week , if that |
| 13 | how long ago , I mean how long has it been there ? |
| 14 | I mean how often do you use six ? |
| 15 | I mean often actually producing pieces of writing is , is , is quite a , you know , sort of long drawn out sort of er iterative process I suppose in , in mathematical terms erm you know you kind of go through it again and again erm I mean that 's one thing you ca but obviously that 's quite time consuming er |
| 16 | I mean really severely handicapped so they really need sort of helpers with them for you know at least fifty percent of the day or something . |
| 17 | I sit there quietly revising my priorities as far as expending grief goes . |
| 18 | If I lo , if I sit out there looks , looking sorry for myself then somebody will take me . |
| 19 | The metal I pick up usually has some shape to it . |
| 20 | I want now just to summarise and er some of these the features I 'm going to point out I 've I 've already stated so you may may just want to sit back and just take this in . |
| 21 | Only I want Only just get me a tin of hair lacquer , normal hold for tinted that 's all I want . |
| 22 | I stop off twice to buy food . |
| 23 | Yesterday you had the strange experience of having someone bend over backwards to return your hat to you because you 'd left it behind somewhere and then five minutes later someone stole it . |
| 24 | I swallow enough bloody smokes |
| 25 | It is without any pleasure that I seek once more to call the attention of the House to the problems faced by Derbyshire police force . |
| 26 | Paul starts to move the boats to the top of the falls whilst I run on ahead to talk to the police at the top of the falls with the nice man from the Northern Echo . |
| 27 | So all I 've got to do is when I run out again fill it up again spending another twenty five quid 's worth or so that would have been six and I could have had a free Corgi toy for Ricky for Christmas . |
| 28 | So it was that I set out laboriously to catalogue the very schema of my own sanity , to list exhaustively the full range of my personal habits . |
| 29 | The special educational needs support service ( SENSS ) that I know well now has a structured hierarchy to ensure that available staffing resources are distributed through the borough according to needs . |
| 30 | I know exactly where to lay my hands on them . |