Example sentences of "a [adj] [unc] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Well erm it was a sticky bus you know , er a field in Winter , it was just er bare soil , there was n no no grass on it and with the cart trudging back and forth , getting towards er a gateway , you would up to your knees in mud you know . |
2 | Okay , so you can convert any per centage into a normal frac I mean you can leave this sort of fraction is no problem , like I say , erm , seventy eight per cent is a , seventy eight over a hundred , and normally you would n't have to bother cancelling them down because you 'd just go to use your calculator |
3 | That it , it 's true , it 's absolutely , but when you managed to swallow a few bot you know , a few of them , you know , you know it 's alright then . |
4 | They read books now and sometimes a few 0& them write poetry . |
5 | you , you want to keep your race , i if you 've got a an alsatian or a , a bulldog , you do n't mix it with a some o you keep them , another bulldog with it do n't you ? |
6 | Mm yeah there , there is a need to exceed proper limits , he says , that proper limits have to be exceeded in order to right a wrong er it 's also he says necessary to create terror for a while . |
7 | er well there 's one there that 's a continual er it is American , well it 's an American style programme but I mean they advertise all kinds of things from all |
8 | Well I think it 's a joint er it 's a joint thing it 's an agreement we have with the United States Air Force , they send somebody over here to our Academy and then erm we send somebody over there . |
9 | But I mean , that were a simple mista I mean you made a payment of two quid did n't you ? |
10 | I get a real erm I 've got ta take the dog out . |
11 | But I , does but when you say that now though , cos I , he slagged Kirsty off to me , he just said oh she 's just really pretentious and she 'll , she 'll talk to you and then as soon as someone cooler comes in the room she 'll turn round and she 'll completely ignore you and you 're left and she 'll do that like at a dinner party or something and you 're left standing there feeling a real id you know , you know that feeling do n't you when you 're talking to someone and suddenly they desert you and you 're all on your own in a room ? |
12 | Yeah I do n't think they 're doing a great er I do n't think they 're making a great deal of money out of it themselves . |
13 | yeah but er yeah there , there 's a gre there 's a great er it 's a great shame actually erm we may not have Jenny for very much longer , they may not renew her contract which will be a big shame . |
14 | It 's a long ti It 's a car park now for that pub on the end there . |
15 | But , it 's a better i it 's not a bad designed place in a sense that , that I mean , it 's a reasonable size room |
16 | Well we were a better er service , they were a better ser I 'm not saying that I think so , I know they were a better service don does n't does n they 're not quite proof , there were in an tramcar Edinburgh Corporation tramcars were running , they were running at a , a , every year a profit . |
17 | Got a decent so you 're gon na have this as a dining room are you ? |
18 | He had a , he had a , he had a , a lot , he had a he was quite nippy and he had a good scu you know , good goal |
19 | And that was a , that was a good er I did n't know nothing about that you know until they er gave me . |
20 | Come on look at her yeah , she 's got a really good figure , she 's not ugly she 's got a good er I mean she 's really tanned and that , they like that and she 's really cocky is n't she and she wo n't take any shit from anyone |
21 | I mean well , not a reasonable mar he 's still making money on the drinks |
22 | That 's a useful er you know a useful |
23 | Here half a one int it ? |
24 | Erm now Kay actually had a big er you know the stand she usually does |
25 | The gates , they only had a single er they did n't have gates on either side here , they just got the one set of gates . |
26 | You 're a wonderful s you 're a wonderful speaker but wait til I 've finished . |
27 | Yeah I know there 's a boy , there 's a boy in my school yeah who 's got erm a blue pa you know Carl ? |
28 | Right well there 's a nice er we did get in the paper . |
29 | . It 's a nice r it 's a nice river . |
30 | That 's a nice hou I like these bungalows I ca n't |