Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Growth is a desperate necessity for China and India , which between them account for a third of the global population , and other developing nations . |
2 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
3 | Early in February 1726 Montrose instructed his commissioner in Scotland to organise his friends to support the plan of a reduction in emoluments for the collector , believing that this would discourage the new candidates and ensure Kirkton 's re-election , for the duke was determined ‘ to stand by him upon the above terms , I mean of a smaller sellary for the future ’ . |
4 | I mean to a certain extent I have just said them . |
5 | Yeah but you 're not used to him being home all the time are you Lyn , I mean for a long period of time like . |
6 | ‘ I mean with a high bird , ’ he amended . |
7 | I mean with a medical certificate . ’ |
8 | Is it , what is it definite , I mean as a regular or just the one off or what ? |
9 | I mean within a fifty kilometre er outline of the Riyadh city there are police check points and the people are checked going in and out , none of them allowed |
10 | No they 're not gon na exploit their own workers but surely the , the , the whole idea of the build up towards land reform is that you are making , I mean in a Marxist sense it 's the only way in which you can do it is , is you make progress through conflict . |
11 | I mean in a different town , not just |
12 | In particular , it is necessary to pay close attention to the relationship of civil society ( within which I will include much of what I mean by a specific urban culture ) and state forms and processes , in a context of ‘ disorganized capitalism ’ . |
13 | Now what I mean by an easy question something like |
14 | I must explain that and I eat in a special compartment , screened from the other foreign friends , who pay for their own meals . |
15 | If you get the limited edition of Let's Knife , you too can Singalongaknife with the free karaoke CD : I am a sweet little cat/ and I dance on a flying saucer … |
16 | It was like watching someone push at an invisible turnstile . |
17 | I sit on a flat stone in one — the straw thatched roof would just have cleared my head — imagining what was kept in the neat stone alcoves . |
18 | I sit on a smooth stone and watch yellow-breasted finches in their dipping flights across the still-warm air . |
19 | When I write biographies , I sit at a large kitchen table with a wide surface on which books and papers can be laid , essential for checking quotations or references . |
20 | On every local flight that I make in a single-seater glider , I do some sideslipping on the approach to keep in practice . |
21 | I squeeze between a pleasant-looking , well-built car repairer called Bob and an enormously furry small-businessman who 's name I fail to ascertain , and we all smile at each other . |
22 | I smell like a major operation . |
23 | ‘ But will my lady allow me to share her bed tonight if I smell like an unwashed ram ? ’ |
24 | I feel stupid if I cry at an emotional film or book |
25 | The darker humour associated with ED 209 , which does indeed look quite large and threatening at first ( and not at all like a model only one foot ( 30cm ) high , which it is ) is typified when it , in error , riddles a young executive with machine-gun bullets on its first official presentation and the stunned silence is broken by a cry of ‘ Someone send for a paramedic ! ’ |
26 | What it is le let's just sort of get things , as I say in a new build situation if you were having a new house built |
27 | and he said , he said that 's just the man I want for a little job |
28 | I certainly do n't want to do that , I want to a wealthy old man . |
29 | To Timothy his dear dad great mercy and peace to you from God the father and Christ Jesus our Lord I give thanks to the God of my forefathers who I worship with a clear conscience when I mention you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day . |
30 | But I relax with a good book whenever possible . |