Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I back away a bit , and kneel down . |
| 2 | You see I mean I can see the goal there every day , I can see , I can see me sort of getting to the goal , I just maybe sort of go around it , I mean well a bit I mean , since I 've had these two I sort of said , you know , would it , would it be the white handle , let me show you , you know the gold handle and , you know |
| 3 | We have n't got er I mean obviously a lot of the staff that are on these temporary contracts are from the adult team . |
| 4 | Well , it 's something er I mean obviously a lot of people like the idea of going over to the Swindon Oasis , now er we 've had at the back of our minds , if it was at all possible to er put something similar at Didcot , obviously nothing as grand as the Oasis , but something quite similar , and obviously they would come to Didcot and not bother to go over to Swindon . |
| 5 | Cos I did ea , by Monday I felt sick and I eat quite a lot at the weekend which was good , but Tuesday I start at placement and we , although like we talk , we do n't have , like a , conversation we as well and there was n't really anything to record , saying yesterday to record and |
| 6 | In some ways I remain permanently a diplomat , allegedly detached but with a tendency to go native , which , of course , is what I did here . |
| 7 | I attach hereto a copy of my DOS Directory plus contents of the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT and should appreciate your guidance in this respect . |
| 8 | And I say over a year now difficulty . |
| 9 | I say virtually a spectator role , for the teacher is likely still to endow the pupils with a role label — ‘ I have a patient outside . |
| 10 | I want both a doggy |
| 11 | ‘ I sense almost a vendetta in this town and I 'll never start another business in Northallerton under the heel of such a group . |
| 12 | At the next Scottish Liberal Party Council meeting I put forward a motion that Home Rule should be the principal aim and object of our policy and that in Scottish domestic matters all other issues should be considered in relation to it . |
| 13 | So at the SLP 's next annual conference I put forward a resolution that talks be opened with them with a view to supporting each other in seats where one or the other of us stood a chance of winning ; and to this end arranged a meeting between Jo Grimond and the SNP leader , Billy Wolfe . |
| 14 | ‘ I put together a syndicate of investors with my friends the Cheng family from Hong Kong , who took control . |
| 15 | Crazy ! in search of machines to enable the group to form , I put together a solicitation brochure and sent it to people in the US . |
| 16 | I pause only a moment . |
| 17 | I shop there a lot as it 's so handy for my offices , and I seem to recall that about six months ago the floristry section was moved from an upper floor where no one ever saw it right on to the Oxford Street frontage . ’ |
| 18 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 19 | Unworthy as I am , I look just a bit like Eric . |
| 20 | Currently we are reviewing the number of staff needed for Stage 2 , but this will almost certainly be a significantly smaller number , and I anticipate quite a number of the existing A Station staff will want to go on SVS : quite a number have already indicated a wish to do so . |
| 21 | Just very briefly Mel I suspect perhaps a lot of women would stand if conditions in parliament were more |
| 22 | When I read , later , Edwin Muir 's description in his Autobiography of his transition from Orkney to a Glasgow glue-factory , I read also a description of my own ( less conscious , more childish ) emotional state at the age of seven . |
| 23 | But in the grey eyes of this female I read only a kind of concealed hostility . |
| 24 | BOP until I drop once a week . |
| 25 | I wave away a bee . |
| 26 | I stand there a bit , organising myself . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm afraid I know rather a lot of people who wanted to kill Mr Phipps . ’ |
| 28 | " Yes and I know quite a bit about history , geography and Latin . |
| 29 | Oh yes , I like and I know quite a bit about gardening and the names of the |
| 30 | I know quite a lot about his work and his reputation , and am quite proud of him , but I do n't expect ever to exchange one word with him . |