Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [prep] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm you can have a look look through if you want . |
| 2 | Erm , I I really do n't want to add anything else , other than the summary , erm , that I gave you on Appendix One , Chairman , but if you move over to Appendix Two for a start , erm , this first of all , relates only to our A T T in and we hope in future to improve this sort of information in the other employee groups . |
| 3 | yeah , as a possibility but given th give that you you 've gone for it in this direction y'know kind of if you 're happy I 'm happy sort of thing . |
| 4 | All in all it was an excellent performance by North Down in the field , limiting the North West side to after they had won an important toss . |
| 5 | To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised . |
| 6 | They will also dance to an electric light bulb as if it were the sun . |
| 7 | Erm it was the way they sort of checked all the way round the car park as if they were looking to see which would be the best . |
| 8 | His dark hair was thinning on top , but he had bushy side whiskers as if it had all slipped downwards , and his chin was a dimpled mound seeming to support an ever-smiling mouth . |
| 9 | So I made out a roster , and there were over a hundred carriage cleaners at and I made out a roster for them . |
| 10 | It allows the parties flexibility in that they may impose new conditions , but provides the third party with the safeguard that any new conditions must comply with the original treaty . |
| 11 | The revised tenancies and those they replaced differ from the regulated tenancies under the 1977 Rent Act in that there is a weakening of security of tenure and other rights , and most rents will be set at market level . |
| 12 | I sail up the hill and along Hyde Hill Lane as if I were a balloon . |
| 13 | What do the control rods sound as if they 're doing ? |
| 14 | Suspiciously spot-on '92 , Cell sound as if they were test-tube hatched to fill the vacuum should Kurt Cobain pop his clogs . |
| 15 | At some theatres , the Minstrels are asking the audience to vote at the half-time interval on whether they want the makeup added . |
| 16 | She prowled among the desks and glowered at the action boards as if they were a bunch of football hooligans . |
| 17 | Charlie assumed that he must fall with every pace he took , as he watched the lieutenant treat the German wire as just another hurdle , before running on towards the enemy trenches as if they were the finishing line in some race being held at his public school . |
| 18 | Although Belfast has a much smaller and less socially and ethnically heterogeneous population than Philadelphia , the community studies resembled Labov 's neighbourhood studies in that they were designed to give broad coverage of major geographical , status and ethnic divisions in the city . |
| 19 | It 's like a little neck rest for when you 're sitting |
| 20 | ‘ Will you be staying ? ’ enquired Miss Harker as if he would be doing her an immense favour . |
| 21 | ‘ Same difference , ’ the Doctor said casually , and slipped into the command chair as if he had been the ship 's pilot for years . |
| 22 | Unhappy with that , but incapable of protesting , Meredith helped the boatman to stow away her cheap carrier bags as if they were precious . |
| 23 | ‘ I object to the way you 've dressed like someone from the pages of a Dickensian workhouse and turned up with your belongings in carrier bags as if you 're on your way to the laundromat . ’ |
| 24 | For , as far as English rugby is concerned , these are the days of miracles and wonders , the days when England can turn out the finest team ever and cavort through the Five Nations championship as if it were a lap of honour . |
| 25 | In order to be a Christian and to continue the Great Battle against the Evil One , I can not return to the life and times of the New Testament church as if there had been no history in between . |
| 26 | Israeli statements represented a change from the policy of the previous Likud government in that they acknowledged that the principle of " land-for-peace " — as in UN Security Council Resolution 242 ( 1967 ) — meant that the Israeli presence in the Golan Heights should be included in discussions concerning the other occupied territories . |
| 27 | Although some horses will travel in horse trailers as if it is second nature to them , even without having any previous related experience ; and some horses will stand perfectly and quietly for the farrier when they are being shod for the first time ; many will not ! |
| 28 | Encourage the visitors to ask questions , if they are newcomers to the neighbourhood conversation about whether they have settled in and met the neighbours and general chat about shops , buses , doctors and dentists again show that you are human and interested in them as people . |
| 29 | Yet every leading member of the Government and the Opposition talks as if we were merely bankers . |
| 30 | Some press and television people — even some of those who support him — talk of his apparent decency in this election campaign as if it were a vice . |