Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been very quiet on the sales front so I hope this will give us a boost . ’ |
| 2 | And it was very easy for young erm young women erm who were either just on supplementary benefit or on unemployment , erm to get sucked into that way of living because I mean obviously they wanted nice clothes and things like that . |
| 3 | I mean personally I think one of the difficulties in the colleges is that they do still have a sense of being at schools , and when you have an atmosphere which is like school you 're tacitly given people permission to act as if they were at school , and so we have a and that activity may not always be very adult , so we have to find a way of changing the environment of the colleges . |
| 4 | All the commissions , and you only get paid I say only you get paid commission on the first year . |
| 5 | er er so what he 's done , he 's kept that money back to cover his self in case the tax say like they want twenty five percent . |
| 6 | Erm but I say there , there were a couple of erm objections that came up during the course of the conversation which really resulted because you , you 'd fallen down on the actual structure , but having said that then again there were two or three examples that you apacked and you got through very well and you , you recovered yourself well on that and , and I say really I think that 's er that 's covered most of the bits that , that I felt were , were there . |
| 7 | That 's what they say well we have this silly game that we play on the number line , going up and down the thing and when you do three start from three , count seven in the opposite direction we finish up at this number called minus four . |
| 8 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 9 | and you 'll you know it does it itself you just , you , with the computer you just say well I had four pounds and I spent a pound on that and two pound on this thirty pence on that and it goes pow does it by magic . |
| 10 | Florentin Popescu 's poem , ‘ In Simple Words ’ , expressed the whole people 's love for the ‘ woman as scholar ’ whose ‘ name we say when we use simple words : water , sun and bread ’ . |
| 11 | It is not the question of what in general we say when we assert such conditionals , or what they are about , but the question of what reasons we have for saying what we do . |
| 12 | And he goes , he lets her go and everything and he goes , and when they walk away he goes stupid bitch ! |
| 13 | When too many break away they jam each other and that is the cause of work hardening . ’ |
| 14 | Well they ran it like that cos they said at the bar we can sell you a bottle of wine for seven pound fifty though , so he said you bugger off he said that , went down the supermarket and get our own like |
| 15 | Cu cut out I Saw Three Ships , and put Hark the Herald Angels in . |
| 16 | All those in favour please show Well it looks unanimous . |
| 17 | They cost about we reckon seventeen to twenty five pounds to buy and they have to be fitted to a door one and three quarter inches thick . |
| 18 | These statistics show why he proposed this , in his view , ‘ unhappy solution ’ . |
| 19 | When you , when you look and you see how people survived and of course they delivered the that you , I mean like we had dripping and bread . |
| 20 | Yeah she 's pretty I mean like she looks better with brown hair though . |
| 21 | And the zinc comes along and pushes the hydrogen out , it says , Hang on I want that sulphate . |
| 22 | ‘ If you just ring them up you can not understand the problems they face so I thought this would be a good way that I could use myself as a focus on their work . ’ |
| 23 | No , mum when I lie down I get more dizzier ! |
| 24 | Look today she looks dry , she 's got . |
| 25 | And er I 'd got a key to get in from the works into the office once I was inside , but that was access to the works you know and er I er I en I enjoyed it more or less and I must say the firm , to some extent , looked up to me and I 'd only got to have a damned machine stop , where the girls was working on this machine , and the bobbin shop and all that sort of thing , and I was able to go look er , down and say look here I want this . |
| 26 | In ‘ Controlling an epidemic ’ Brookbanks & Hampstead describe how they contacted intravenous drug users and their contacts to help stop the spread of an outbreak , and WHO recommend that all health care workers receive vaccination against hepatitis B. |
| 27 | I was starving so I had pie and mash twice He had double pie and double mash twice . |
| 28 | Consider how you handle each of the following emotions . |
| 29 | Look how I put that microphone . |
| 30 | ‘ Look how I gave all that up for Bernard ! |