Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [unc] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | The experts er they deal with the the damages |
2 | No it 's I might , I would , take this opportunity to say how much I appreciate your hospitality when I have the opportunity to visit the clubs er it d they are always very enjoyable occasions and I much look forward to them . |
3 | Yes , but if if we take the dog with us go up the heath and then I go to the hairdressers erm you do n't need a haircut anyway do you ? |
4 | For example , somebody might erm be homeless , but no hostel in town will take them on because perhaps they have a mental illness or a drug problem , or perhaps they are in trouble with the courts erm we can return to that hostel with the person saying ‘ Do n't worry about these other problems , just fill in the bits you can , the accommodation , and we 'll sort out the other bits ’ . |
5 | Although their cars were not as good as the Germans ' he drove brilliantly and beat the Mercedes and Auto Unions at the Nurburgring in 1935 to win the German Grand Prix . |
6 | " These anti-partisan units are without exception completely compromised by open collaboration with the Germans ' he wrote , but he recommended that in view of the complexity of the situation they should not be " handed over to the Yugoslav army " but " should be disarmed and placed in refugee camps ! |
7 | When we move in here , we get this guy come along to look at it , he say well this machine the er the Germans erm they 've really the pump is th is really easy to go , and so I can change your pump for you but l in your washing machine washing machine . |
8 | erm if people do n't actually read the policies erm they wo n't be fully aware of what they 're being offered . |
9 | When we were talking to the builders tha he were putting that in . |
10 | Well this is alright , but we 're only doing it for the beneficiaries int you ? |
11 | That 's the knives int it ? |
12 | His own rich baritone rang out with joy , and at the words Lo he abhors not the Virgin 's womb , Frere thought briefly , almost affectionately , of Gypsy May in the cold and dark outside those walls . |
13 | Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress . |
14 | Er carrots are fifteen pence a pound but the potatoes th they 're different . |
15 | Right , but one of the things we have to remember is , and I know it 's sort of a sha , but you have the experience of last year and , that has to be shared you know to sort of cut the corners yo you 've got ta pass it back a year or up a year , whichever whatever happens and you 've made a very valid comment there and you need to make note of that that , you know somehow you have to work round Rob to get it |
16 | Erm thanks very much for the directions er you gave me , it 's quite awkward coming off the main road there cos you really have |
17 | One of the other points about it is that it will erm er , in in the minds of the parents the they will see this one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , ten er being used , poor , satisfactory , excellent and it will get them into the idea of what these levels |
18 | relieve the parents fe you know , fears as such . |
19 | erm I think perhaps we were on erm traffic management generally , you mentioned Howard Street and Magdalen Street , which you all know you know has always been a bone of contention amongst the Conservatives erm they spent two hundred thousand on it and they now want another two hundred and fifty thousand to make it permanent , and so on and so forth . |
20 | And er we had to have er for the spr er for springs the er the buffers er we had to have a er a tool then to put the pressure on on to the buffer springs . |
21 | And she said erm where they have their big discos in the universities er you know , about two thousand five hundred of them come round of course they 've got fire alarm systems there , then she said you get the underground so called Mafia , whatever you like to call them she said , they are chaps she said in their thirties , and forties , arrive in shiny big white and red Porsches this that and the other and deliberately , cos they 're club owners |
22 | Well the proposals in the Good Report as I said for final salary schemes is that a third of the trustees should be elected from he actually says from the active members er we know and comments that in great length a about the difficulties that it would be to er actually er elect er er members who are pensioners or from the deferreds Er I find that er somewhat simplistic view point in that er er the pensioners at least get communications from the administrators of the scheme every month , they get a monthly cheque , so it sh should n't be beyond the wit of man to be able to er be able to contact the pensioners and organise pensioner meetings but pensioner trustees to be elected . |
23 | The we 're coming closer on the er figures for the er staff turnover and I believe that the four percent , which is easily achievable , on the thirty first of December nineteen ninety two the turnover savings were running just below four percent , alright we just cut some of the post out of today 's budget but I still think if we give the wrong messages to the officers er we 're in danger of spending money that we do n't need to . |
24 | some of the gods erm they believe in erm both erm but certainly there were Hindu and Buddhist temples and erm people used to go to both . |
25 | When our marketing er executive goes round to the surgery one of the one of the things erm he he or she will determine with the with the practice is the number of booklets we 're going to print . |
26 | So that 's one of the things er I picked up on . |
27 | But er that was one of the things er he kep it was an enjoyable trip and the roads were in these days , er you get the motorways today , I just think on the roads , what they were in these days , there was even some places we went through a ford in the middle of the road , with the water about two or three inches deep . |
28 | Now one of the things th we find that when we play an Adam Faith record , we tend to be singing it for the rest of the day you know , like What Do You Want |
29 | Yeah erm oh well looks like we 're nearly drifting towards the end , again as I , as I say I 'm , I 'm , I 'm fairly , pretty happy with the questions erm you know er going back to what I was saying earlier I was just thinking that some of them might be more f easily phrased as non directional statements and you have the , you know , kind of have the words in the scales yeah right , good , so yeah |
30 | Way back in December , when we were first rehearsing erm the problems erm we were facing a hundred and seventy compulsory redundancies , the closure of an adult training centre , the closure of an elderly persons ' home , erm the closure of a hostel and a whole range of other quite draconian measures . |