Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top management did n't bother about that , they know left it to the local you see . |
| 2 | Some people get awarded it before the trial period is up . |
| 3 | She would n't go out in the car the other week so we like chained her to the wall we were . |
| 4 | I do nt think they ve had one for a few years . |
| 5 | I 've err plugged it in the library , Sir , so it 'll warm up before it starts . |
| 6 | ‘ The rest of us in Argentina 'ave forgiven you for the Falklands War . ’ |
| 7 | So here we 'd actually have a match of all three saying that we 've recognized it to a level three . |
| 8 | And I 've got a an all day meeting , I 've arranged it on the Tuesday that 's if we 're being presented to . |
| 9 | Shuffling all those bodies about to get it all nice and tidy , I think would not only be an enormous exercise , it would be a waste of time , because people do n't stay fixed in aspic once you 've placed them in the right place ; they change , they progress , they regress or whatever . |
| 10 | I 'd actually go a bit further and say yes we 'd like to do this , can we also look after road maintenance as well , because the road maintenance is sent out to contractors , contractors are so busy , they ca n't actually do half this work , they 've got a list as long as your arm , so pit pitfalls in in the pavements as well as as some of the motorways are n't being done because the contract 's been placed , but they 've placed it with the wrong people . |
| 11 | And I 've placed it in a strategic position . |
| 12 | well I 've given it to the birds in the past when I 've had |
| 13 | No I 'll let you do it , I , I 've pointed you in the right direction |
| 14 | ‘ In this case it 's because they believe you 've tricked them over the supposed disappearance of Clarion Call . |
| 15 | I I asked the er the minister earlier about this question and I appreciate his difficulties being a home office minister rather than a foreign office minister and I quite understand his reluctance to er stray too far from his departmental portfolio but the reality is that the British government agreed that the European parliament should continue to meet in Strasbourg but we 've heard nothing from the minister as to where the money should come from er in order to make that commitment a reality because I 'm sure that every member opposite would say that the uncertainty about the present boundaries is not the er responsibility of the British government , that it 's a matter for the French government to sort out which boundaries er will be in place in the United Kingdom by June the ninth , the date of the European elections , but the reality is that the British government have gone along with the arrangement for having Strasbourg recognised as a er seat for the European parliament . |
| 16 | And I 've heard it from a whole bunch of people , she says stuff , she actually tells people I 'm on heroin all the time . |
| 17 | I 've heard you on the subject before . ’ |
| 18 | Which is a bit different and I 'd like to see it , that 's just one of my things , but again when you 're in , going into retirement I think you 've got to think about this , I mean I went , nobody twisted my arm , I went into that situation and I 've enjoyed it for a great many years , but now I 'm thinking I 'd , before I , it 's too late I want to have a , a l a fling in autumn as it were . |
| 19 | And they took a whole level off , they 've dropped it by a storey . |
| 20 | I 've dropped mine on the floor . ’ |
| 21 | But I met a man on the road to the other village — I 've pursued them over the mountain from Keswick and you know the road divides two ways — and he swore they had come this way . ’ |
| 22 | So I 've added it in the middle , rather than at the end . |
| 23 | You 've caught me at a very late lunch . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , ’ grunts Graeme Souness , as he ambles across the mahogany lined reception at Ibrox . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 26 | you 've caught it on the er |
| 27 | Well , I 've caught you in the act . |
| 28 | One biscuit becomes a whole packet , one chocolate bar turns into three and before you know where you are you 've trapped yourself into a wholesale binge . |
| 29 | Now , I could count on the thumbs of my right hand the times I 've forgotten myself in a theatre . |
| 30 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |