Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [conj] [unc] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Rocastle , as now he must , had played his part for Leeds but paced= himself more than he might have and still succumbed to cramp 15= minutes from time . |
| 2 | But er I think it 'll be a good break for Kevin but er I expect Sandra will miss him as well |
| 3 | Either you 've got a massive turnover in staff or erm you 're going somewhere . |
| 4 | Well we never heard the name shop steward in those days I do n't think they went that far , there was somebody in charge sort of thing but erm they er got the na the name afterwards I think you know shop steward , but er and then they used to be Miss used to have the garden fetes the garden parties on her lawn , that was for the Liberal Party you see as soon Labour was mentioned there were only Tories and Liberals at that time and er we used to , when there was an election er we used to wait up for the results and then if the Liberals got in Squires ' big bell would be rung if it was twelve o'clock at night or one o'clock in the morning the Squires ' big bell would be rung you see , to say who 'd got in , if the Tories got in it was n't rung because it was a , Squires were Liberals , strong Liberals and er they used to attend the Liberal Club at Shortheath but erm there used to be some fun in those er what 's the name parade if the Liberals got in and dances you know to raise money for the various things , and the garden fetes used to be lovely but er on their lawn . |
| 5 | As , chairman of Dundas & wilson who claims to have had little problem in providing other specialist services to clients , small and large , the exercise becomes on of ‘ not cross-selling but cross-advising ’ . |
| 6 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 7 | it 's not pronounced in mine , but , some er they say that with where it 's gone away , you know , there 's all sorts of things that can prove it I mean the obvious thing is we came from somewhere did n't we ? , we did n't just drop here with a flash of light and er they 've studied plants and other animals and they evolved . |
| 8 | Yes , well she she er she did a bit of work and er we lived |
| 9 | have given me a a bit of grief because the they 're on a very similar price level now to us . |
| 10 | Now that was certainly the views of the President of the Board of Trade before er he er returned to the cabinet er at another time and I 'm not sure if he 's departed from these views but I think they 're worthy of some weight . |
| 11 | So you 've got er those kind of problems but er there ought to be some troop support for you . |
| 12 | Er that kind of idea that er you know , whether any changes at all that you thought that you appreciated er in that made workers feel that they were in fact a more important a more important part of their industry ? |
| 13 | or kind of oven in nine , I can only think of Oakhouse as a kind of oven but erm I do n't know whether that 's it or not . |
| 14 | Would we need , we 'd also need some kind of refreshments and er we 'll have to make a decision about lunch . |
| 15 | and erm these were poultry breeders be erm scattered all over the count er county who yes the erm accredited poultry breeding station scheme was erm initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture and erm there were a number of farms scattered all over the county erm where they were open to inspection and erm we had erm had a Mrs who went round and inspected the flocks and erm they had to reapply each year to erm sustain their accreditation |
| 16 | And they got an old curtain at the back door and then that 's all you sort of go through across the corner of the kitchen and he was making a bouquet of flowers and er he was setting them all out like and then when he bought it into me it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane and it 'd got two gold strips like |
| 17 | And then I went to Hereford for six months and I did er six months of medicine , and that was a long way from home in Essex and er we all sort of er mucked in and er made our own entertainment and cooked for each other and that erm was quite a good time . |
| 18 | and I wanted to erm you know , just travel from village to village but erm it was quite amazing how God said you 're coming to Harlow . |
| 19 | Junior scrabble for Sarah and er I do n't know about the two boys I do n't what we 've got sorted out for the boys . |
| 20 | So we swapped addresses with er , ca n't remember , it was a man middle-aged sort of man and er he then said ooh , well he said I still think that we were in the right in as much as if that policeman was supposed to have been directing traffic blah blah blah blah blah ! |
| 21 | But I had been er made a mon I think I told you this before , a monitor and I used to dodge all these sort of things and erm I used to go after I 'd been putting the books out for the next lesson , I could go to the library and I used to sit down and read . |
| 22 | I 'm in a bit of difficulty when you say what sort of weight because w we need to have some sort of scale I think but |
| 23 | Erm you gave a a very full account of the sort of pressures that erm you were under because you did n't have a job and you related it to the necessity of involving yourself in what you euphemistically called the black economy . |
| 24 | I would agree with you that if the if we have gone along and said to people , well er yo , we 've got alternative accommodation for you and they have n't wanted to go then , well I 'm sure that we hope not to give them that er er , alternative accommodation er , and it 's not in our interest at all to er , keep er , places empty , and further more we have n't really got er enough er , alternative places to put er , these er tenants in so I 'm that it 's as the result of the sort of dwellings that er we 've er we now find ourselves with as a result of the er initial buildings in the first place . |
| 25 | I think that the sort of sequence that erm I ca n't remember which group it was |
| 26 | Well we never heard the name shop steward in those days I do n't think they went that far , there was somebody in charge sort of thing but erm they er got the na the name afterwards I think you know shop steward , but er and then they used to be Miss used to have the garden fetes the garden parties on her lawn , that was for the Liberal Party you see as soon Labour was mentioned there were only Tories and Liberals at that time and er we used to , when there was an election er we used to wait up for the results and then if the Liberals got in Squires ' big bell would be rung if it was twelve o'clock at night or one o'clock in the morning the Squires ' big bell would be rung you see , to say who 'd got in , if the Tories got in it was n't rung because it was a , Squires were Liberals , strong Liberals and er they used to attend the Liberal Club at Shortheath but erm there used to be some fun in those er what 's the name parade if the Liberals got in and dances you know to raise money for the various things , and the garden fetes used to be lovely but er on their lawn . |
| 27 | And erm we never thought about playing , I suppose there were odd boys that did this sort of thing but er they were very very rare , very rare . |
| 28 | Erm so that erm there were all sorts of erm little by- products from the agriculture and library and that sort of thing that er we had to erm deal with . |
| 29 | And this is er the sort of thing that er you 'll hand over to the the medical practice to er at least remind them what you 're doing there . |
| 30 | change , change over and change the tapes and all that sort of thing and erm they give you packets of batteries and your supposed to change the batteries every two to three tapes , every four sides in other words . |