Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a satisfactory account of these models requires a level of technical exposition well beyond the scope of this book , the basic question which they attempted to answer is quite simple to grasp . |
| 2 | The Auditing Practices Board 's discussion paper on the future direction of auditing ( see p 88 ) has been given a warm welcome by most of the profession , and the debate which it hoped to stimulate is already underway . |
| 3 | ‘ What I meant to say is , I do not feel any animosity to you , signorina . ’ |
| 4 | Erm what I wanted to say is , erm , in response to the lady in the red , was that a lot of feminists have a lot to answer for because , in the sense , men erm can be discriminat , well not discriminated but we can say things about men which are generalizations , whereas if a , one man says one generalized thing about a woman , then he 's just , you know chauvinists is everything , and he 's got a really bad name to him , so I think it 's got to be looked at from both sides . |
| 5 | what I wanted to do is say is what about the publicity can we try and make the very best of this |
| 6 | See , what you got to realize is — there are rules . ’ |
| 7 | What you 've got to rea no what you got to realise is the most obvious place for somebody would be on the bed but we could n't see anybody on the bed so the only other place is under the bed . |
| 8 | So , what you got to do is outsmart them , see ? ’ |
| 9 | That 's what you wanted to know is n't it ? |
| 10 | information about a particular piece , so , Simon and I sort of , we were talking kind of fairly casually about that , but erm , what we agreed to do is , this was about the time when we first got the equipment I think and it , it occurred to me that you , and I 've checked this now , that you can actually plug a cassette , you know , a Walkman type of player into either the microphone for the |
| 11 | Er but the basis of what he had to say is presents a problem which do face judges in the class of case . |
| 12 | Mr Williams said : ‘ The thread that runs through what he had to say is that he was desperately in love with and fond of the victim and wanted to get back at her . ’ |
| 13 | However , what he had to say is still thoroughly relevant today . |