Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 so , and then he was going on about the work he 's doing on the
2 Not the same as those you ranted on about the day we first met ? "
3 Mr Evans 's voice boomed on about the things he had done when he was a boy — mostly earning money in his spare time to help his poor mother — but though Auntie Lou seemed to be listening , she was n't listening to him .
4 She was going on about the grass they 've left on the
5 It 's okay for Australians to bang on about the risks they get a summer .
6 Buy two £175 fish and go on about the bargain you 've got ?
7 Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our
8 and , well no it 's not sociable but because you come out and it , it gets you away from here because you 've got so many things on during the day you want some time to yourself and because you , we 've found us a place that we wo n't get busted and we know we wo n't we go in and have it but I can guarantee that if we were , like walking into this room , if it was full of smoke it would put me off straight away .
9 But when you want to heat the bedrooms up you ca n't , unless you only have it on for a bit you know .
10 Leave it on for a year you 'll get a bill .
11 Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off
12 Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks .
13 I feel I could play , but if I broke down during the game I would be letting down the team and myself .
14 You can breathe it in through the lungs you can swallow it through the mouth , you can inject it through the skin and you can also absorb it through the skin .
15 A Polynesian folktale tells of Rata , who travelled across the ocean and ingeniously outwitted a hungry whale by jamming open its jaws with a broken oar ; venturing in through the mouth he came face to face with his parents who had been gulped down before him .
16 But erm you see , they suggested going down for a meeting he 's up to his eyes in it !
17 Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson
18 ( These are only my personal feelings and I would n't want to put anybody else down for the way they dress . )
19 More than two negative reasons for accepting a job can take a heavy toll on your resources of enthusiasm , particularly if you had the added disappointment of being turned down for the post you 'd really hoped for at the time .
20 Down off the holder it 's on the sink ready with the the toothpaste on it .
21 ‘ A Gnat honours his promise , ’ I told him , and I took his kite down off the racks I was amazed how light it was It was beautiful It was big , silicon black , with scarlet lines , and when I took it outside , the sun flashed rainbows off the shoulder hooks .
22 Well I mean for the first year she wo n't be in if she goes in as a student she 'll be in college .
23 Whether it was being referred to that week as The Tea Room , The Oasis or The Hole ( I liked that one too ) , it was always basically night inside , A Good Night Out ; not black as jeweller 's velvet exactly , except on a good night , but always when you stepped in off the street it was truly night inside , a night dark enough to dream in and on which to meet strangers , whatever the variations on where and when this particular night had fallen .
24 While I 'm digging that garden she used to go out roll in the trench what I 'd dug and soon as I went in for a drink she was in there before me !
25 Yeah , and if goes in for a pint he gives you a packet now .
26 ‘ Court proceedings could be long and drawn out , and how do you prove when a player went in for a tackle he did it with intent to harm his opponent ?
27 ‘ Sorry , no , ’ Ellie said dismissively , and if Phena thought she was also coming in for a chat she was mistaken .
28 Even then we were in for a surprise you see , because at the end of the You know how most houses have a rectangular plot within which the house is put ?
29 so , if , if , if they 're all four of them coming er and she says about going in for a meal I shall say oh well if you feel like it go and do that then and come for your tea I mean it 's just putting them round table is n't it ?
30 An animal capable of symbolization can carry away from a situation an inner trace that stands in for the response it may make when it next encounters the situation .
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