Example sentences of "[verb] and [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's an art to tackling and it 's nothing to do with the elbows in faces , eye-poking , testicle-grabbing and raking opponents down their Achilles tendons that he talks about . |
| 2 | David Smith a bookie says there 's money to be won and it 's just as well he managed to eat when he was a youngster … |
| 3 | Well Peter I sa la one night last week oh it was the week before I was going up past and this fella was walking and he was fucking staggering and he was going on the road and Peter 's came back and fucking him . |
| 4 | I was walking and he was with his mum and I looked up cos I know what his mum looks like and he was walking with his mum . |
| 5 | ‘ People have been approached and we are just waiting to hear now when the contracts are signed and sealed , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 6 | The relevant schools have been approached and it is intended to co-ordinate engineering , education and enforcement activities . |
| 7 | Then she has been infantilised and she is no longer autonomous . |
| 8 | The bitter weather was ending and everyone was feeling more cheerful when Joe was due to come on leave , but shortly before he arrived his mother had a vivid dream in which she saw him lying dead on a battlefield . |
| 9 | A woman barred her way because a service was ending and there was an aggressive demand for a donation on entrance instead of , in the British tradition , a polite request before leaving . |
| 10 | ‘ I had always wanted to try and it was wonderful , ’ she said . |
| 11 | and we looked on it more as a party and a family gathering and showing everybody else that we were now committed and we 're going to spend the rest of our lives together . |
| 12 | Now we are of course talking principally on this sixty hectare allocation for the district outside the Greater York area because I think it is well understood this enquiry can have comparatively little impact on how much development takes place within the surroundings of Greater York , because I understand the site that 's being discussed is already committed and it is in any case part of the York pool rather than the Harrogate pool . |
| 13 | I knew you were committed and I was n't going to interrupt . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But we 're dealing with a devil we do n't know and we 're paying the devil more than his due . |
| 16 | Okay so what do we know and what are we trying to find out ? |
| 17 | admitted that she did n't know and it 's about that department what 's |
| 18 | And he obviously did n't know and it was n't public knowledge that it was his wife that was |
| 19 | But there has been a lot of concern about the privatised er security contract at St Helier , er the way it was subcontracted by the original contractor , er without any member of the Health Authority actually knowing about that ; I certainly did n't know and I was on the Authority at the time . |
| 20 | I do n't know and I 'm |
| 21 | More and more I do n't bother — she does n't know and there 's usually no-one else to see so what difference does it make ? |
| 22 | This was another voice , one I did n't know and there was something odd about it . |
| 23 | I mean we did n't know this , well Mark knew , but I did n't know and there was some as Germans and some as English forces it was really good and it got erm the D J got all the old records and all that really was a good night ! |
| 24 | But there 's something she does know and she 's keepin' it to herself . |
| 25 | I do n't know , I do n't know and she 's still really madly in love with Dan or according to Paula . |
| 26 | The symptoms are generally worse the further you fly and they are more marked after eastward flights than those to the west . |
| 27 | My buttocks began to freeze and I was wondering whether to return when I heard the clop of the horse 's hooves and glimpsed Sir John riding vigorously by . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm not milling about , I 'm not lurking and I 'm not amassing , ’ Otley said vehemently as Nigel pleaded with him yet again . |
| 29 | With the present depressed economic climate , economic rather than social costs tend to be stressed and it is noticeable that even though accounting is masked in its own technical language it can have quite profound consequences in the political sphere . |
| 30 | Du Guesclin was reorganising the French armies , our old king was doddering and there was no need for English swords in France , so we sailed for Outremer . |