Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though typically economists look at the way in which human beings create and distribute goods and services , often with an eye on issues to do with efficiency according to some rational criteria , this does not prevent them using economic theories to examine , for example , educational provision , the supply of blood donors , voting choice , to name but a few . |
| 2 | In the 1920s their financial position improved and , despite the reductions of income in the 1930s , the cheap money policy which followed the abandonment of the gold standard and the move to protection , permitted them to obtain cheap mortgages to buy the thousands of three-bedroomed semi-detached houses which were being built in the South and the Midlands at between £400 and £450 . |
| 3 | Should I make fresh efforts to get him back ? |
| 4 | I asked both bodies to get together if they needed further information from British Coal they should secure it . |
| 5 | As a child I overheard two women talking . |
| 6 | Any more than that I wasted five minutes reading his articles ? |
| 7 | Planning for the fateful flight started several weeks earlier when I made tentative arrangements to visit a microlight manufacturer at Membury airfield in Berkshire for the review of the Chevron which appears in this issue . |
| 8 | My son spent a year at Liphook Junior School , during which time my husband and I made frequent visits to discuss our concerns regarding this apparent lack of progress . |
| 9 | I made violent splashes to attract his attention ; he circled until a rescue launch picked me up , some 30 to 45 minutes later . |
| 10 | Back that the al-Rasheed hotel , where I was staying , I made sporadic efforts to escape this undercurrent of hysteria . |
| 11 | Well I mean all men go in for these model things . |
| 12 | I mean other girls have passed . |
| 13 | I mean two teachers come back and one of them says , Well I 've counted all those who are going to Whitby . |
| 14 | will go straight out the window and they wo n't bother with us , a very short time it 's taken five I mean six years to build up the credibility |
| 15 | As I 've , I mean divisional guidelines forthrising costing I 've added to the related documents and I 'll produce those because they 're a divisional thing . |
| 16 | but then you can , you can specialize you see , I mean some nurses go into the theatre all the time once they 've qualified |
| 17 | I would n't have gone rush I mean some mothers have gone rushing up the school and complained . |
| 18 | Er Now a lot of things in Lakehoff 's paper perhaps people have disagreed with since then such as the things about tag questions and hedges erm I mean some studies have said that if you look at the actual modality of tag questions , like we said before , the actual function of it |
| 19 | I mean some schools have not gone off site at all you know they 've actually stayed inside |
| 20 | I mean those horses offered at fifty to one could have been offered at a hundred to one and still the bookies would have finished up ahead , but of course those people those few people who 'd at fifty to one would have one twice as much . |
| 21 | Well it 's interesting that er I mean these quotations get It must be very clever research . |
| 22 | I mean most projects start with some introduction which is related to extant material , whether it 's fine art or fabric design or whatever , and then to analysing the basic level , as it were , up to the appropriate level for the age group . |
| 23 | I mean most speakers have got resonate point , some , most of them are quite low |
| 24 | They do a dinner special inside there , I mean most places do roast |
| 25 | In fact since Mr Brown made his remarks some parents have rang me to lend their support . ’ |
| 26 | Loving in truth , and fain in verse my love to show , That she ( dear she ) might take some pleasure of my pain ; Pleasure might cause her read , reading might make her know ; Knowledge might pity win , and pity grace obtain ; I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe , Studying investions fine , her wits to entertain ; Oft turning others ' leaves , to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburnt brain . |
| 27 | With December seeing only 2 full weeks activity and with Scotland enjoying its holiday over the New Year I trust Scottish colleagues enter 1991 appropriately refreshed and renewed . |
| 28 | So er I 've got some , I got them curtains , I got blue curtains to go out |
| 29 | Well I rang them up yesterday because I got two cheques left . |
| 30 | ‘ We had some players on expensive long-term contracts that we could n't afford , while I got some players to agree to wage cuts , ’ he explained . |