Example sentences of "[prep] [det] and [pers pn] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been to the police about this and they are trying to take it further . |
| 2 | I have spoken to Ian Wright extensively about this and he was saying that Hendrix was one of his three musical idols . |
| 3 | We talking about this and I was saying about coming from construction I says I 've says I 've to go up the cut like |
| 4 | The greybeards made a quite unnecessary fuss about this and I was forced to employ my stout stick . |
| 5 | ‘ I had one injury after another and it was doing my head in . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're going to go round to Mackenzie 's house and we 're going to ask his daughter what she thinks of this and we 're going to take pictures of him and we 're going to run our own front page with a picture of him and a bloody great headline which says RACIST ! ’ |
| 7 | Yes lovely , amino acids , right , it 's one particular amino acid there are eight essential amino , amino acids and it 's one of these and it 's called venial alanine you do n't have to remember that , it 's very difficult to , to remember . |
| 8 | what they are doing you see , an authorized dealer , well even a non-authorized dealer get hold of a piece of kit and then somebody say want this system , right okay , and they just have a big load of forms for maintenance agreements and all they do the dealer 'll go along and put this kit in , B T 'll come along and say yeah that conforms to regulations , sign here , the customer er sign here , the dealer send the maintenance agreement to us , we signed it , send it back , we 've never even seen it , then we turn up and find that the main control unit 's high up in the attic or in a damp cellar , in a cupboard where you ca n't see it , there 's no light and stuff like that and we 're taking jobs on like that and it you know , it 's just impossible to work on them |
| 9 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 10 | a lot of sixteen year olds are still having trouble with decimals like that and they 're adding them in the wrong place . |
| 11 | I do n't like it when they 're sitting on the floor in front of the counter with their legs like that and they 're sitting there and you 're looking at the video and you think , well , I ca n't get that because that was made in nineteen-eighty-six and they might think I 'm a bit weedy , so I better get something that was made recently . |
| 12 | No blinking Sam goes to me , cos we were , we were , we turned Arachnophobia off because people needed the toilet and erm there was Songs of Praise or , you know , something like that and they were talking about all this terrorism , somebody said oh I 'm glad you did n't go to London said but I did and she goes oh no you did n't did you ? worried about me going to London |
| 13 | But then I , eventually I tried the building trade again and I joined a firm called er forget , or something like that and I was working up in George Street in , in , in Edinburgh . |
| 14 | And then er the the the lace trade he he worked on , when women wore high collars , boned high collars and he made the little narrow edging lace about like that and it was goffered so it made a frill round the face . |
| 15 | walk in like that and you 're looking at all the things in the shop not where |
| 16 | Er er in hole that 's like that and you 're grabbing out , well you 're only making a hole and fill in again but they into that one place do n't they |
| 17 | Anyway , , the old shed looks well there er , I du n no why I started to look out and the cat was on his back legs with his feet like that and he was looking up at me like that ! |
| 18 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 19 | Julie said he went up to bed and she she said he sat his , sat on the bed , went like that and he was snoring . |
| 20 | When he lied down like that and he was pissed off |
| 21 | But if I 'm moving around slightly like this and you 're having to follow with your eyes as I 'm making my presentation it brings variety to it brings that bit of variety like you said earlier that it brings some interest to it . |
| 22 | You know at the top it was like sloping down here and the car 's like this and I 'm having to try and get the car back down without it toppling over and it was an abs |
| 23 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 24 | oh yeah the people , matey 's walking along and he 's going like this and he 's pulling it as he 's doing it , he says and he 's doing it in proper time like that , but with one arm going he 's twiddling it , he 's doing it , he says no my feet are exactly like that , very effective but you can actually get fined for loosing them , you have to pay for them and its like a real , shooting sticks as well , you do n't tend to carry erm , these pay sticks you carry them like the old shooting sticks , the old you know ? |
| 25 | Well I 'm freer to do , I mean I , I got , I wanted to be free because I was getting tied up with that and I was getting tied up with persons , but not agreeing everything |
| 26 | I got Pipkin into this and I 'm going to get him out . " |
| 27 | So you had you had twelve pennies in one pile and twelve in another and you 're doing twelve add twelve now you could have done counted the whole lot could n't you ? |
| 28 | Britain is leading the way in this and it is hoped that other countries will soon follow suit . |
| 29 | They 're working on it , but there are about 50,000 kilometres of roads in all and I was told that fully half of them need to be torn up and rebuilt from scratch . |
| 30 | So you see they were having a difference of opinion over that and he 's saying you should n't , you should 've left it all to me and she says I 've done it for last fifty year and , you know , all this . |