Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun] [conj] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 She half turned to look at Curtis , raised her heavily bandaged hand and shuddered as she added , ‘ I get nightmares now , just thinking about that man and what he did to me . ’
2 And — worse — how did you ever decide what you felt about that person or what she meant to you ?
3 I know all about that scene and what it can do to a man . ’
4 Then we analyse how individuals collect data about each other and what they do with those data .
5 The Government 's repugnance for that organisation and everything it stands for has been made absolutely clear on repeated occasions .
6 You know , he 's giving , gip about this girl or something he said and ye you took offence !
7 ‘ I was just telling you about this girl and what her mother said on the night before she got married to the sailor . ’
8 It sounds to me when you talk about the misery , and I 'm sure it must have been miserable , I do n't doubt that for a minute , but when you talk about this misery and everything you went through , it 's a wee bit like the old fashioned way , you know , everyone was saying my God , what I went through , you know to have you !
9 Oh she said a few days ago about some bungalow or something he 's he 's helping to build .
10 Erm , in the Customer Services area once we 've seen what changes Customer Service wish to make during this year that they myself and Roger and gon na find that out , hopefully , tomorrow , erm , then we 'll be more specific about the areas that we have to address on th , the first and second floor .
11 Well each has a particular history erm each has a particular culture and pattern of doing things , structure of government as I 've mentioned but also of course we have common interests so in foreign policy we sometimes draw differences between what we would regard as the direct interests of each state and what we can call common interests of mankind .
12 Well I can I can remember when I was a child and kids had a lot of time to do hobbies and a favourite hobby was to make a a garden and I never made one , but a friend of mine was ooh forever making these things and giving them away as presents you got the lid of a biscuit tin or something of that sort and you I do n't know what they used for grass they used to model little ducks and things and he had a piece of mirror to make a pond have you ever seen this done ?
13 ‘ Get hold of this wall or whatever it is , ’ Maggie instructed .
14 I want it to be clearly understood that I do not in any way mean to suggest there is any question of prevarication when I say that as to the prospect for the future there is essentially a difference between what the plaintiff 's parents said in their statements made as recently as the twenty eighth of October of this year and what they said in their evidence about their attitude to future care .
15 Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice .
16 West Germany and Holland support the idea because they do not want other EEC countries to enjoy the competitive advantage of fewer regulations than they themselves have .
17 To assist our understanding , it may be interesting to explain the purpose of these visits and what we think ( and hope ) they achieve .
18 Erm now if you lose one of those people cos we we put a lot of emphasis on you know , high quality training , erm then that money is just wasted .
19 When you hear some of those squawkers and what they get . ’
20 Yes , I think argument against it is why should we take somebody of less quality than somebody who 's available ?
21 In case of sudden death , take note of any witnesses and anything which may be needed in a statement for a coroner 's inquest .
22 But now apparently there 's a , this with this seating or something there 's now can hold thirty one .
23 If the taxpayer understood what the Government are planning with this privatisation and what they are doing to the coal industry , there would be no doubt what would happen at the next general election .
24 Something had gone wrong with this Christmas and whatever it was , it affected him .
25 She was nearly hysterical , with some reason if what she said about the Germans was true , but we had not seen Anna .
26 And it ended up I was buying it for less money than what I was paying monthly for rent .
27 It 's about the sa , well it 's might , just a little bit bigger than our school , about another hundred or something , but that 's , that 's a drop in the ocean when you 've got seven hundred there that 's like one in each class or something you know , extra
28 in that sense because it you 're so far in inland .
29 That has been quite a lot of money er spent in that area and which I 'm quite happy to talk to you about erm I do n't need .
30 all the satellites hanging down it was very good the way it had all been done in , in that respect but what I found was the first bit was very boring , I found but when it got going a bit it was better but the whole moral of the story was that nowhere is perfect to live but it 's hard for y young children like this
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