Example sentences of "[det] [art] [noun] [conj] i [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | following on from that er that the point that I think is being made is that a contribution does not have to be put forward in a shape of a question to be er a useful contribution to the debate and and your erm pressure upon er the lady who spoke er a while ago was er insisting that she she |
| 2 | Alright well I think well I think actually well I know we 've droned on about it for half an hour but I think it 's worth a discussion to be quite honest , do n't you ? |
| 3 | Then I 've only got half an hour and I wan na go through my tap . |
| 4 | He was gone for about half an hour and I do n't think any of us even suspected that there was something amiss . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not quite such a coincidence as I seem , ’ she said , ‘ I 've just been reading my uncle 's book on Aurae Phiala , that 's why I came to have a look at the place for myself . |
| 6 | But in those rare flashes when one can shed the present self and all it is in command of I realise that there were really only two occasions when I did personally feel the times on my pulse in such a way that I remember them , and not what I have since reconstructed of them . |
| 7 | My life is organised in such a way that I have excluded the jobs I like least . |
| 8 | I I 'm I say you must excuse me going on at such a pace but I 've got A I 've got another meeting quite shortly and B you 've got some little mo I think M Michael 's looking to take over . |
| 9 | Your friend there is such a person as I describe : a war criminal with more murders of children than I would care to name upon his conscience . |
| 10 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 11 | No one else seems ever to have encountered such a sight and I have had difficulty convincing friends of the truth of my tale . |
| 12 | It 's such a pity because I do adore him so . " |
| 13 | In actual fact my walking stick and gloves are ( I am almost too ashamed to admit ) an elaborate affectation which has by degrees grown into such a habit that I find it difficult , if not impossible , to lay them aside . |
| 14 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
| 15 | And I get such a fright cos I keep expecting a bird |
| 16 | Yes , I think also how you feel it could be improved would be very relevant and how you would feel in the context of a pensioners meeting , an annual meeting like shareholders have in companies and how you if you have any views on how such a meeting might be managed in relation to the deferred pensioners interests , the existing pensioners interests , the employees interest and obviously the company 's interest being adequately reflected at such a meeting but I think we would welcome that aspect . |
| 17 | She wrote to us in July , and we were delighted to hear from her , but she is such a roamer that I do n't feel confident in replying to the address she gave then . |
| 18 | ‘ Poor darling , you 've had such a time and I keep rabbiting on and on about it . |
| 19 | NCT has given me such a lot as I have moved twice when each of my children was 6 months , and as I attended really brilliant ante-natal classes before I had … and now that I am starting out on my ante-natal teacher training which will cost the branch £250 ( This is actually the cheapest training offered by any charity e.g. a Relate counsellor costs £600 to train ! ) , |
| 20 | How could such a soul as I have fornicated with one single prostitute , let alone have repeated the grotesque abomination another one hundred and fifty-five times ! |
| 21 | The word " taxation " is a short expression of such an idea and I think a happy one . |
| 22 | ‘ Because ’ — and now the words were stressed — ‘ he no more wants to suffer the shame of such an exposure than I do . ’ |
| 23 | look 's like you went and like all the clothes and I suppose |
| 24 | At this moment she had the urge to fly back to the house , take her into her arms again and say ‘ I 'm going to make it up to you for all the love that I 've withheld , and for all the love you 've missed in your life . ’ |
| 25 | And I just go through all the catastrophes that I 've bought you , so from now on it 's cash , just cash . |
| 26 | Well I just keep when I sit down , I 'm tired all the while and I 've got no appetite whatsoever . |
| 27 | well , if you can get on with doing that thing , sit down and look through those magazines with me and I 'll show you the prices that I can get them at retail I mean at trade , all the prices cos I 've got that two and a half thousand gallon job and that is only seventy quid , so I 'm just gon na have one of those , I 'm gon na have that with a U V A filter and eight er eight watt U V A filter which is fifty quid , that then , which is for one of those tanks which is for three hundred and fifty , but that 's not , I 've that 's |
| 28 | I shall ensure that their names are added to all the complaints that I have been making . |
| 29 | For all the reasons that I have given , we are determined to introduce a minimum wage that will offer decent protection to decent people whom I , my hon. Friends and , indeed , Conservative Members represent . |
| 30 | These women ran and organized all the groups and I remember often being approached as if I were a rare species of animal . |