Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb base] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 and I go into that pad , say
2 Yes it would I 'm a big gambler and I go into any gambling .
3 Sue and I go to this cafe , I told you at Newtown did n't I ?
4 I 'm ninety three now and I go in this back yard do something every time .
5 ‘ You 've won , Leo , ’ she managed quietly , ‘ and I hope with all my heart that you find it a pyrrhic victory . ’
6 This column has been set aside for the punchcard machines , but I 'm not forgetting that some of you have manual machines and I hope in future issues in to include something for you from time to time .
7 The first weekend in September should be a closed date and I hope in future years the folly of playing games on national finals day will not be repeated .
8 But without your support and your demonstrations and support from whites in other countries with the rugby demonstrations , the cricket , with all aspects that you 've done , you 've also contributed to making it easier for us to be the kind of people we would like to be and I hope in that way we therefore do share as a family and then try and create one world .
9 And I remember to this day , though I was so small , that mother was very angry with me , for unclothing myself before the servant , who was a very nice girl who had been with us for a long time .
10 Erm , but we are n't going to the sort of , end of degree , that er , I say this , and then you sort of enter stage left and say this , and I respond like this , and then erm , something else happens , and then somebody comes crashing in through the door .
11 Chairman you 've got to allow me because by the time I 've finished you wo n't be able to stop me , er , but I mean if there 's a lot of money floating about in this area then I think that er , some committee or other should be looking at the the refurbishment of the courts in Devizes which are a disgrace , and partly the fault of this council when th they were allowed to get into such a state , and I mean at some stage or other , something or else is gon na to have to happen to them and I would hope that the magistrates in their wisdom in some committee or other are , are deciding to take these courts back into use .
12 It is difficult to come to terms with the fact that I mean it 's people that you 've worked with for a week , at a time and I mean for three and a half years every second week you 're working with that guys in a confined space , you get to know them really well .
13 And I mean in that way you might sort of really want to go and look at one of these erm er sort of er rather awful inner city areas .
14 And I mean in nineteen sixty five such a job would cost te about eleven to fifteen pounds which was an anas astronomical amount of money in those days , simply because the man who had the firm had an A licence , or four or five of them , and he was in a mon a monopolistic position you see .
15 So she goes , I want it first thing tomorrow morning , and I mean like this is talking like , we 're talking major here !
16 the , this , this is just one aspect of , of my writing and I write about all sorts of things and erm , erm the shows that I do , we use two artists that 's erm , I , I 've written erm two , two poems about erm , er Darren and , and erm Stanley er you you 've heard
17 And I know of one Darlington school which is running a lottery to make ends meet .
18 They in turn got it from a hospital in Leeds , and I know of one other implementation in Sheffield of this particular system , so there may be two or three others that I do n't know about , perhaps four or five in this country , of this particular type .
19 His picture of the democratic tyranny of Athenion , the Aristotelian who led the anti-Roman movement in Athens in 87 , is the most hostile image of a popular leader in Greek literature — and I know of few comparable portraits in other literatures ( fr. 36 Jacoby ) .
20 Erm that has been a matter of serious discussion here and I know with some of the local authorities , and the fact of the matter is sir that we feel that if we look at the agricultural land quality of this county , if you were to have a criteria based policy which included the requirement that strategic sites should avoid good quality agricultural land erm you have n't got a policy at all because this is a county which has mostly its territory covered by good quality agricultural land especially in those parts of this county where strategic development might be expected to actually happen .
21 Thank you very much , Sir Leonard for that , in th in the beginning of your address you posed the question , what does a company like I B M have to do with a community and then proceeded to answer your question , I think in a most , er , comprehensive way , and I I speak as someone who lives in a county , Hampshire , where I B M has a strong er , base , and I know from personal experience as a volunteer in that county , how much we value the contacts that we have with I B M and the way in which we work together with them in the way that you have described .
22 I feel kind of cheated myself , and I stare at all the shops and people knowing this time I really wo n't be back .
23 And I wish with this high seating position that the rear view mirror was n't so directly in my line of sight .
24 Some hours later , after a torrential thunderstorm , the wriggling foot , that had been kicking in very strange places , finally broke through and I soke at five in the morning with a warm , wet feeling .
25 But I move my motion , and I ask for those in favour to please show
26 But I 'm really the person to come and see and I liaise with all these bodies as such .
27 Firstly , and I return to this point which I have mentioned again and again in debates such as this and that 's the the question of the lack of there being a central agency er in existence to see to the enforcement of these matters .
28 I 've done my own cleaning ready for Christmas which I had n't the energy for in the spring and my husband and I walk about 3–4 miles every day .
29 So I said well sir I find maths really boring and I walk into this classroom and it 's all painted the same with this blackboard in front and I just find it boring , he goes yes guess who he was taught by at rugby ?
30 erm my point is this , and I speak with some authority , I speak Arabic , I 'm an ex-colonial policeman in Palestine
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