Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [pers pn] [vb base] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 2 | At only 18 , Dundas will be seeing things through young and excited eyes and I wish him the best . |
| 3 | This new venture seems to hold great promise for the future and we wish them every success . |
| 4 | The car of the future and they call it the ’ Urbanizer . ’ |
| 5 | You get in your car and you start it every morning , you run around and come back , you start it again . |
| 6 | I gather this is normal practice but I find it a little unreasonable . |
| 7 | Nine years have passed since my divorce and I tell myself the half-forgotten betrayals and deceits are old news . |
| 8 | We stroll arm in arm to the nearest pub and I buy him a freedom drink and lunch ; a pint of stout and a Ploughman 's . |
| 9 | the only reason that police get away with drink driving is cos half the buggers are Masons and they give them the old funny hand shake and its oh on your way sir |
| 10 | Well run councils will flourish as a result of this settlement and I offer them every encouragement to do so . |
| 11 | Erm the blacksmith and we give them a horseshoe nail . |
| 12 | that came in my head and all I wan na do if money you can to I wan na love you , for my heart and you make me a brand new woman , you make me ha , you wan na |
| 13 | ‘ It was very hard work for that sort of money and I consider it an insult , ’ Austin said of the earlier award . |
| 14 | His name was Edward Greenwood , and as they all sat down , he said , ‘ I 've heard all about you from Helen and I wish you the best of luck . |
| 15 | Micky Danby is a pratt and I owe him a few scores meself . ’ |
| 16 | It is neither the ninety seven thousand , nine hundred and fifty seven pounds claim by Mr nor the forty seven thousand one hundred and eighty five pound figure contended for by Mr but I find it a fair figure for the cost of the plaintiff 's transport in the years ahead . |
| 17 | Yeah under question things and they give you the answers in blue . |
| 18 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 19 | Sheena and Howard have since moved to Somerset and we wish them every happiness in their new home . |
| 20 | Right so , someone on a bike , you 've got a mate on a pushbike and you 're starting a race and you give him a shove . |
| 21 | Er I suggest you pick up the phone and you give us a call now on , alright ? |
| 22 | I 've just made a huge investment in this station and you call it a stunt ? ’ |
| 23 | So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll have them every other week and you have them every other weekend . ’ |
| 25 | Then you have a bath and they give you a towel and soap . |
| 26 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 27 | I signed a lot of the players and I train them every day . ’ |
| 28 | Devon & Cornwall are justifiably the most popular holiday areas in Britain and we offer you a choice of 10 different holidays , all easy to reach as our map shows . |
| 29 | Joan Daniels has now been appointed Honorary Treasurer of the Medau Society and we wish her the best of luck in balancing the books — figuratively speaking ! |
| 30 | He gives you an ice cream and you give him a kiss " , that sort of thing . |