Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] [det] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I mean probably women are more daring you know because they 've got less to lose in a way I suppose if you if you 're not a councillor you can be more er you know or if you 're not worried for your job or you know or if there is n't a definite structure I suppose in the lodge there 's the definite people that always say the same things you know what I mean and it 's it 's less easy to be spontaneous in that situation I would think you know .
2 mimics them and that , oh I hate that , I hate that as I say a few times I thought to myself I do not like
3 ( 24 ) He put a hand under her elbow and helped her stumble the few steps she had to take .
4 I picture the few campesinos who guard the sacks moving away as we approach .
5 THE GUEST WHO COMES TO STAY FOB A FEW DAYS You have to know , or find out , what foods your guest likes and loathes — otherwise the entire stay will be an embarrassing misery .
6 I turned it over , glanced at the Hungarian stamp , and read the few words I had scribbled to Stephanie , only three weeks earlier .
7 Launching the scheme , Chief Executive Ralph Hodge commented : ‘ As I have said on many occasions , the Quality Improvement Process must be central to the way we manage C&P and meet the many challenges which lie ahead .
8 Oh , you get the few stalwarts who come year after year , but for the majority it 's their one and only chance to be pampered , to see places they might otherwise never see . ’
9 And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space .
10 We get the same holidays they do . ’
11 ‘ I 've still got the Rick and use the same stacks I had with Hawkwind ; I wo n't change them .
12 we use the same words we use them in different in the different area accents but i that 's all it is .
13 But , the longer you stay the more wages you get .
14 Yes , look at a possible amalgamation , recognize the many difficulties which lie ahead , but remember also that the members and the activists within the G M B need to be kept fully informed of what the C E C are doing .
15 I offer a few ideas which have worked for me in this situation .
16 They heard Vice-Chancellor Colin Campbell thank the many graduates who have already contributed to the cost of the new Centre .
17 We would be open in the summer only and serve the many holiday-makers who swelled the local population from June until the end of September .
18 Just the handling of equipment , and the new video equipment being delivered , and the hope that the division will invest in its own equipment , erm maybe it 's just a question really , do n't know if people here could help to answer it , but erm the more video equipment we have the more problems we have actually with erm just keeping it all up together , keeping it all working , and it is a constant problem with stuff being borrowed and coming back with bits missing or bits not functioning , mostly leads .
19 See the more winners you ride the less weight less you could claim .
20 Most pubs in the country probably have a few regulars who think their local is the best in Britain … but one of them has just proved it .
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