Example sentences of "[noun] and [pron] [adv] [vb base] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally Carrie said guiltily , ‘ Here we are , Julie , going on about all our worries and you never say a word about yours . ’ |
| 2 | The youngest ones are the Institute of the future and they only require a little encouragement ( a twist of an arm ) and they will become reliable , enthusiastic committee members , secretaries or chairmen . |
| 3 | Pat and I now have a small group of wild-caught Yellow Swords from one of the new collecting sites . |
| 4 | Most of my friends will buy this album and we usually waste a lot of time discussing the merits of whatever record we have recently bought , so we may well have a few arguments on whether to eat meat or not . |
| 5 | We assess our assistant stewardesses for promotion to other areas of work aboard the cruise ship which makes this job a very good entry level for those who wish to make a career in the industry and we also run a training scheme for our housekeeping department . |
| 6 | They also had an overhead railway which gave me unlimited pleasure and I well remember a wall covered with hundreds of tiny wooden drawers filled with different sizes of screws and nails . |
| 7 | I mean , you get meters normally , the meters we 've got at work and you just turn a knob and it 's got ohms , volts , amps frequency you know , whatever . |
| 8 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 9 | Any reasonably well-known professional scientist will receive from time to time letters written by bell-meaning people who indicate , usually in rather guarded terms , that they have in their possession the solution to the riddle of the universe and they just need a little help in polishing it up or propagating it . |
| 10 | Keeper John Lukic was beaten three times in the second half and they now face a giant task in the second leg of this first round tie . |
| 11 | I 'm going through a stage where erm , I 'm cooking them lunch and they just have a |
| 12 | They need a home where they will be safe from hunting animals such as bears or lynx and they also need a place to store food for the winter when the land is snow-bound . |
| 13 | ‘ Groups have put tremendous efforts into past projects and we always see a high standard of work . ’ |
| 14 | Previously we estimated that our data request omitted 6.5% of cases and we now add a further 6.1% who may have been lost because of inadequate records . |
| 15 | She 'll say I 'm a travelling salesman and I often spend a night away . |
| 16 | Because it 's there 's if I 'm there for three weeks and they only want a score card done then my potential earnings er total earnings are that but I 'm there anyway so if I 'm getting both of them done then I can earn a lot more money . |
| 17 | If the list of persons is compiled in accordance with an Order made by the Secretary of State and the Secretary of State then makes the appointment , then it is the Secretary of State who is responsible for all stages of the process and we still have a centrally appointed er part of the of the er of the local authority . |
| 18 | Er , I 've also received minutes from the Epping Forest from Redbridge Group and they also have a lobbying workshop erm , that 's on the second of March , and they 're asking if anybody 's interested in that . |
| 19 | With ‘ good head office staff , I 've been able to spend upwards of two days a week out in the service and if you keep that up it 's amazing how many places you will have been over the years and we now have a much more open relationship ’ . |
| 20 | They achieve different things and they probably represent a hierarchy of development or an historical sequence . |
| 21 | A Hampshire Police spokesman said today : ‘ We can confirm we are reinvestigating the circumstances leading to the death of Steven Jarvis and we now have a 15-year-old girl in custody helping us with our inquiries . ’ |
| 22 | Add another bone and you also get a list of recommended walks for dogs and tinned dog food made available , to your canine chum . |
| 23 | ‘ They had three players in the Switzerland team against Scotland the other night and they also have a Brazilian international , ’ said Walker . |
| 24 | The wounds became tiny scars and we now have a really strong friendship . ’ |
| 25 | That first tour did a lot to make the rest of the tours tremendously successful because , with all things like that , if you do play to a small group of people and you still do a great show , then by word of mouth the word spreads how wonderful you were , even though it was n't packed . |
| 26 | Besides these general points , market professionals suggest that holders of dollar eurobonds fall into five categories , namely : ( i ) UK money managers managing funds for US captive insurance companies , whose tax liabilities are not known in advance and who therefore have a preference for euro-issues . |
| 27 | They feel happiness , sadness and they also have a sense of humour . |
| 28 | ‘ Add to this John Imrie 's knowledge of domestic money markets , 12 other foreign exchange , sterling and currency money market dealers plus support staff and you already have a Treasury and Capital Markets team that is the most experienced in Scotland , ’ said Bill . |
| 29 | There 's one in the just by the er , the changing rooms , the , the erm lockers and I always choose a locker that |
| 30 | Or try the heart-in-mouth sensation when you 're strolling with your lover at some secret rendezvous and you suddenly see a neighbour across the street or your husband 's car waiting at the lights . |