Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [noun] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parallel to this education and close round the school , the life of the community goes on — the child plays and is expected to play a very full part in it ; fetching water and firewood , minding little brothers and sisters , running errands , buying and often selling in the market , performing religious duties at Koranic schools , catechist classes or in traditional preparation for circumcision and other initiation ceremonies , alongside all the watching , the imitation , the play , the chit-chat and the ‘ mucking about ’ which is part of growing up everywhere . |
| 2 | What I am discussing here is the kind of recall which is part of studying , linking names to faces , remembering items on a shopping list or where you put your spectacles . |
| 3 | Which is shorthand for saying that you do n't have to cheat very much . |
| 4 | it is n't like an immortal soul which is sort of given automatically |
| 5 | This time Rodney , a vet from the early Emmylou Harris days , teams up with Steve Winwood , Marc Cohn , Don Henley and Barry Beckett to make a record that tends towards a generic West Coast feel in bits , but also has that Springsteen-goes-broody vibe , which is sort of rewarding . |
| 6 | And then the next bit which is sort of solving the equation , is what values of X would make Y equal to zero ? when when is F of X equal to zero ? |
| 7 | erm I found recently found a Bestway pattern book and this is one of the pa the war time patterns they produced which is sort of shell shaped squares for patchwork and it really looks very effective . |
| 8 | However , the serious party ideologist is provided with reading matter which is oven in reproducing the mythology of Jewish conspiracy . |
| 9 | When anyone 's like that with me or with one of my friends she just sits there looking at you because , cos she 's big , she 's kind of threatening sometimes , you know what I mean ? |
| 10 | Well , she 'd lost that much weight , now she 's very conscious from then on , you know , she 's sort of kept her weight down , but her daughter also had a job at our place and she was gross , I mean , Olive and Ann had both been huge women , but , but this daughter , and she was only about five feet tall and er , I do n't know what her weight was but it was one of those |
| 11 | Do n't know what she is actually , she 's sort of attached . |
| 12 | You know , I mean , er , that is why it 's all coming out in the books , that 's why the , all these men , she 's sort of saying I 'll get my own back now , you know ! |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't mind Mrs Meadows being pleased , and I can understand it because it makes things a lot easier with Mr Meadows , but she 's sort of sympathising with Mum because I 'm not engaged ! ’ |
| 14 | Erm , yeah Mrs she sort of has the power over level erm if she she sort of , it 's like she 's sort of keeping her on this level in the same household as her |
| 15 | Yeah , I know but it 's just when she 's sort of having to sit down all the time . |
| 16 | She 's sort of shaking like you do when you laugh . |
| 17 | Not I 'm not blaming Marianne , but she 's sort of picked up things from the media and the media have said oh rejoice attitude , but that particular rejoice was because there were no casualties |
| 18 | Meanwhile , Labour 's John Power , who 's head of planning on the city council says there are major problems to overcome : |
| 19 | We also need one person in each group who 's crap at making paper aeroplanes . |
| 20 | ‘ The only things they can offer you is things like making grass grow on colliery spoil heaps or being a world expert on how a locust eats grass , ’ says Peter . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's my problem , ’ Hari said firmly , ‘ what I want from you is help in making the shoes , perhaps you could work a few evenings for me ? ’ |
| 22 | I mean everything is kind of steaming up |
| 23 | You , you get a tin er and whoever 's sort of looking after the tin , er somebody kicks it , one 'll kick the tin and then you all go and hide , and he has to find you before you can come back and kick the tin . |
| 24 | I mean these people , there 's things like throwing broken milk bottles , throwing milk bottles into peoples yards , removing bicycles , picking up my bicycle , as it happens , and throwing it down several times , erm going down the streets playing a sound system full volume at two o'clock in the morning , which generally left people feeling they did n't know what was happening . |
| 25 | And there 's concern about losing de Ministry of Defence jobs in Harrogate now . |
| 26 | And from that belief Pooh then derives the belief that there 's honey by inferring it , via his belief that bees mean honey , i.e. that where there are bees there 'll be honey . |
| 27 | In particular , it 's quite irrelevant that Rabbit tells Pooh there 's honey by saying that there is , i.e. by producing a linguistic sign , whereas bees , as we 've remarked , are not a linguistic sign . |
| 28 | And so there 's prestige in going into the school . |
| 29 | Lastly , there 's space for listing any undertakings that require signature by your client . |
| 30 | There 's music throughout starting with Diana Ross . |