Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [art] [num ord] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'll quickly rattle through the next one effectively nothing more has happened at Napier , they went off for their Christmas holidays about the fourth of November and came back about the nineteenth of January er , not quite as bad as that but nearly as I mean they 've even longer holidays than we 've got and we get a fortnight at Christmas and New Year |
2 | Like everyone else who has attended the Cathay Pacific Hongkong Bank Sevens , I ca n't wait for the next one . |
3 | I 'm always saying , right I 'm going to bed now and you say you know well we 'll wait till the next one then , we 'll wait you know and it 's it 's it is really . |
4 | Yeah brilliant and what would you do with the first one ? |
5 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
6 | He does n't look like the first one at all . ’ |
7 | So let's look at the first one . |
8 | Next week we start the second part of the course , our erm , our key as it were and we 'll look at the first one with er . |
9 | 3.2 Having already examined the prenominal attributive position in Chapter 2 , we shall now look at the next one , which we shall call simply predicative position , when there is no risk of misunderstanding . |
10 | I 'll move onto the next one . |
11 | might fit into the next one . |
12 | We did n't fit in the last one . |
13 | Then you take an acid chloride , and dissolve it in another liquid which wo n't mix with the first one . |
14 | Now we need to look at one lot of something in brackets add another lot , well let's , let's forget about the first one being in brackets , let's say we 're doing ten take away six . |
15 | Oh , I think I 'm gon na forget about the fourth one preparing notes . |
16 | The Secretary of State talked on Tuesday in terms of people moving from one unit to another , and said that it would not be a problem if a unit was closed , because people could simply go to the next one along the road . |
17 | So I 'll start with the first one and I 'll pass it round and just put either the relaxing on one hand and the reviving on the other and you 'll have one hand relaxed the other one doing this . |
18 | She said that she would travel by the next one and should be at the hotel about eight clock . |
19 | You could say at the last he had his brother 's fibre , but it was manifested in fortitude instead of daring — which is a more admirable thing . |