Example sentences of "and they [vb base] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've helped me with the baby , they take her away for a couple of hours a day , and they take you out to places — sports centres and hospitals . |
| 2 | And they bring them up to me |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't know where to begin looking for Mike so I called the police and they put me on to you . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 6 | I also have seen in Oldham near where I live , where an MP was imposed on that was held by Lamont for twenty two years , lived in Aberdeen I think it was , came to Oldham once a week to do his surgery and they put somebody in from the T N G. |
| 7 | Half of the wine and they top it up with water . |
| 8 | And they take the cartridge out and they send it down to Cardiff which is where Mel is |
| 9 | The front desk apologises for the inconvenience and they accompany him back to his room with a duplicate key . |
| 10 | Look , if , if somebody charges you three hundred pound , and you say that 's too much and you complain and they knock it down to two fifty , but they say but we want you to pay fifty pounds on something else , extra , do you think the two fifty 's fair , eh ? |
| 11 | And they roll it over like that |
| 12 | It 's common all over the Pacific , and they drink it out of big wooden bowls , passing it round the circle . ’ |
| 13 | , six days a week , I mean it 's like this year I mean he 's going to be working , I 'm working as well right up to Christmas Eve , so are you , his gon na have the Christmas Day and they want him back at work on the Boxing Night . |
| 14 | They want their money and they want them out of there . ’ |
| 15 | Because they 've been good boys we 've helped them extend their landholdings and they lease it back to their own peasants at exorbitant rates — that 's why their own people call them pirates . " |