Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | I swallow enough bloody smokes |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I know exactly where to lay my hands on them . |
| 30 | He may not have Michael 's sophistication and finesse , but I know exactly how to handle James . |