Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I would n't of minded , like I said to the bloke er if he , if I 'd been er a hundred pounds overdrawn or fifty quid overdrawn or something like that , I would n't of minded so much because I knew
2 7.4 Whenever any sum of money is recoverable from or payable by you to us as a result of the operation of any of these conditions or any breach by you of the same , such sum may be deducted by us from any sum then due or which at any time thereafter may become due to you under any other order or transaction placed or entered into by us with you .
3 No they have n't , they 'd been bought a car that had been like , that it sort of been written off and rebuilt or something like that .
4 And , without being narrow-minded or anything like that , I must say that lipstick does n't suit you . ’
5 The actual vicar was er it was high , a high church , Father and then there was er he was a vicar and he used to live in the vicarage which is higher up than the church at the back of the church Street , and there was Father , he used to run the Boy Scouts troop , and there were , I believe there were , there was two curates , I , I think the other one was named , but in those days either in Street I think it was in Street there was er two or three Sisters of Mercy that used to live down there , and they used to , cos being high church they were able to go , they did n't do any preaching or anything like that but they did parish work around the parish you know , they used to , they used to call them Sisters of Mercy .
6 int he village you know , except maybe at at the Social or something like that , said , Come on up and sing and then I forget my words and that 's me .
7 An eighteen year old or something like that eighteen seventeen eighteen nineteen year old something like that who would like you know a fiver or tenner .
8 Oh yes yeah the skippers , the skippers would go up the town cos every time a ship used to come in they got , they got to take the their papers up to the agent , what the papers were I do n't really know might be a manifest or something like that , what they used to do I mean then you had erm and you had different agents now there 's more agents than ever now .
9 The Liberal Democrat spokesman on trade , industry and employment , Malcolm Bruce , attacked the Chancellor 's statement as a Budget of despair and disappointment which provided a little relief for the unemployed and nothing for those attempting to counter the effects of the recession .
10 Well , for instance , that she lived in a in an old vicarage , cos her husband had been a a , no a tri , priest in the Church of England and er we her house was haunted and she was telling us stories and sh she quite often saw the ghost , she was never worried , she never cos it never frightened her it was n't vicious or anything like that and she often saw it quite matter of fact .
11 With a horse you want that tomorrow morning ; and if you 're going to leave it neglected you 'd have it with sore shoulders ; you 'd have it lame or something of that sort .
12 The younger the people get , I find that not wanting to be erm whatever , regionalist or anything like that ,
13 So they 've , have they been terraced or something like that ?
14 ‘ I do n't disturb him when he 's reading or sleeping or anything like that . ’
15 She 's a wonderful lady , a wonderful mother , not simple or anything like that , just a very trusting person who could never bring herself to speak ill of anyone . ’
16 The myriad cells of the brain are like the shells where pearls are born but incomparably finer , and in these cells the ideas sleep through time , and are cut and polished and made perfect and they at last enter a crucible where the new crystal is reborn and is grown .
17 I give Sky 's version high marks for content but none for realistic decor .
18 Is it possible to arrange that they be given blanks and do n't know which are the blanks and which are the real , because otherwise there 's a risk after you 've done this the schools will suspect that they 're low , and therefore they will add a little on to their blank or something like that .
19 We could do it up till Christmas , three monthly or something like that
20 My old man said he 's erm , he used to go down to er , every , every sort of six months or so , cos they were in he was in charge of fucking then , he 'd used to have to go on manoeuvre 's about sort of six monthly or something like that
21 The conventions say little or nothing about actual combat , and were seen as supplementary to the 1907 Hague Regulations , which remained in force .
22 They saw little or nothing of each other .
23 Instead of maintaining the general domain of a text topic and preserving partial results to form hypotheses about new words and meanings , most natural language programs preserve little or nothing from one sentence to the next .
24 Gasping for breath , Gentle registered little or none of this , but pushed himself up from the wall to re-launch his attack .
25 Maybe just locally , at local garages but as far as , far as being the all national or anything like that , there was never anything I with the tramcars .
26 But Fraser , pressed on the question of value for money resorted to other arguments : " they are more economical , but they are not so satisfactory , they are always going off for sickness of some kind or another , or their mother is ill or something of that kind — that is the greatest trouble , their mother is ill constantly " .
27 And I think where where youngsters were away from school that was a greater reason for them to be at home , to look after home , whilst their parents were ill or if probably one of the other kids were off ill or something like that you see , because in most families there was what three and four children .
28 When I was ill or anything like that then your on hang cause they just come over , well they phone over , and off you go .
29 It 's not addictive or anything like that is it ?
30 Do join Kirsty , Lloyd , Kathleen Long and me for more of the same but different at five to one tomorrow .
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