Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean nothing gets dry outside this time of year oh there 's not much taste in this coffee is there ? , do you think so ? |
| 2 | Then I 'd disappear for days and make everyone go crazy with worry while I whooped it up down the nearest alley with some ear-tom tom . |
| 3 | After all , one might dream up all kinds of outlandish ideas , and make them look good by persuasive argument decked out in the trappings of authority and the careful selection of data . |
| 4 | Keith has a lot of talent and I think David used to go to him and Keith would rearrange the songs and make them sound good with his bass lines . |
| 5 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 6 | I mean I must be honest , I did not feel that frightened erm it was n't an acute pain that that I mean I mean one of the things that one has to realize , you can become a heart attack bore . |
| 7 | I mean I got that with my interview at I should be grateful if you would |
| 8 | I did n't get involve with it , I mean I got involved in it and I did it |
| 9 | I mean I know some of the , some of the more slender women , I wo n't say skinny here , what , are n't in need of a tummy tuck , but well there 's you as a twenty two Scottish women would spend two thousand pounds , what do you think of that ? |
| 10 | and , and what do you do about it , you know whe when they er y you know , I mean , I mean I think one of the things is you , you can start off erm you know very open and so on , but if you 're not careful y y you actually take on responsibility for them you know in a , in a way which is actually not helpful to them and is probably very bad for you |
| 11 | I mean I feel sorry for them erm they 've put themselves in a position branded forever more or less . |
| 12 | Well it 's , I mean I feel sorry for him but having said |
| 13 | But I mean I feel sorry for young mums now because there 's no way if they take on these mortgages they can have a family |
| 14 | I mean I do that with a , you know when I 'm sort of on about a long delivery talk about |
| 15 | I mean I remembered some of it , I , I remember hearing something that she 'd given some bits downstairs |
| 16 | She just want me to get used to de plain English first . |
| 17 | So that is a possi I was just wondering which one it was cos I say I know some of them are a bit you know |
| 18 | But I , I like you say I mean half of me |
| 19 | I want I want one of his dad . |
| 20 | erm where I am assertive it 's where I 'm working to a rule book I know those rules backwards and I want somebody to follow those to the letter |
| 21 | up date that Jimmy , where d' ya get that from ? |
| 22 | D' ya remember those of you who were here on Monday . |
| 23 | Still less could it have been foreseen that Palestinians and Israelis would find themselves facing one another across a Madrid conference table in the 1991 encounter which provided most of the disappointments predicted by numerous observers at the time , but which may still prove to contain the seeds of a more fruitful sequel in the future . |
| 24 | Harold Pinter occupies a unique place in contemporary theatre as a distinctive stylist , and I suggest you read some of his early short plays like The Room and The Dumb Waiter before going on to his major plays like The Birthday Party and The Caretaker . |
| 25 | Therefore , if you suffer from a serious medical condition or disability , we suggest you contact one of the specialist agencies for advice on the suitability of your hotel and the resort area generally . |
| 26 | ‘ Then I suggest you send one of your people back to HQ and receive your orders by hand . ’ |
| 27 | I expect you to put these in your pocket |
| 28 | D' you want one of them ? |
| 29 | D' you want some of my coff-choc ? |
| 30 | I 've seen this fella on the back of the bus with his bird and that and I walked down and was sitting by them and he was tooting gear , y'know , behind the back seat like that and he threw a load of gear over to me and said : ‘ Here , d' you want some of this ? ’ , y'know , monging , off his head , like . |