Example sentences of "[prep] and [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ I 've got a young family to look after and I have a full-time job . |
| 2 | I was put off it from an early age because it used to be used in the by-lines in the Daily Telegraph and it sort of and it looked a bit wrong . |
| 3 | I came second which I was very glad about and I received a pink certificate which I still have . |
| 4 | And I , I ran there and ran back to continue my game , at play like and I heard a , mo , her say to mother well I like your lad to go says th look at this cheese it 's never been unwrapped he said those other lads he says it 's always looks as if it 's been unwrapped and |
| 5 | Right , the problem is that I ca n't seem to get through on the telephone , I phoned and her secretary came back and said you 've to phone and she gave me a guy 's name like and I got a number for him so I phoned it , ah he works in our Edinburgh office I phoned the Edinburgh office . |
| 6 | The nine , well you go down into and you get a bus go wherever it dropped you and then half a mile , mind you that 's gon na cost you about fifty P |
| 7 | And then what would we do with so that 's the first pizza that 's dealt with and they got a piece like that out of the first one . |
| 8 | I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh . |
| 9 | At the informal meeting I had with and we discussed a procedure for dealing with litter . |
| 10 | She 'd be good to be seen with and she had a sense of humour . |
| 11 | Now we travelled the best part of the Ukraine and we also dipped into and er we were there about a month , just under a month , and erm one of the impressions that I got there , just as an ordinary chap , no , not learned politically so I ca n't speak on the level er of most of your callers today , but er , I realise that here you had er people , in actual fact my my comment was the country 's half finished , everywhere you went there were building constructions so far incomplete , er projects underway and you 've got the impression that they did need communism in a way to make the thing work er , the er , let's take the Ukrainians , I mean that , that 's where the Cossacks come from and they love a good time , er those sort of people in a way need a strong government . |
| 12 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 13 | He took them to Mahala Andrews , an expert in fossil fishes at the Chambers Street Museum to learn that these were specimens no-one had ever seen before and they included a species of fresh water shark . |
| 14 | It 's the same here , but they do all get listened to and they get a reply . |
| 15 | They do all get listened to and they get a reply . |
| 16 | And er so this student came to and I organized a conference and took the chair for him you know and er and helped him every possible way . |
| 17 | And some sneaky feller who was in the promotion stakes as well , he found this out and passed the word on and they laid a trap for three fellers , one night after twelve . |
| 18 | ‘ We dug the pond because there was n't anything to look at and it seemed a very obvious thing to do . |
| 19 | At the time he said never again , but a few years have gone by and he has a different perception . |
| 20 | She might well have stood too , but he was close by and she had a quick memory of when she had been close up against his body before . |