Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [pron] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three pound fifteen shillings yeah and that 's how , that 's how the work went at that time but as I say these boatmen erm they used t they used to sit down on lock gates day in and day out and did n't have a ship to come in but I 've kno kno known them to row down the river at high tide or it 's before high tide and there 'd be another erm , there 'd be other boatmen there , one was called , he went down , he used to go down and get 'em going , there used to be a race between these two families or the and the first one got the boat , the first one roped it in you see , or wh what we call roping in , moor mooring the ship up , that was |
| 2 | They 're either in the , in the erm , little cupboard in the downstairs loo or they 're in the bathroom . |
| 3 | Those countries that could not ‘ keep up ’ with Germany or which were on a different economic cycle from her would suffer badly in terms of their standards of living . |
| 4 | ‘ If I can come up with the names then I will take that to the chairman or whoever is in charge to try and get the backing I need to sign them . ’ |
| 5 | Does that rain mean it 's off the coast or it 's in our area ? |
| 6 | A fourth bad approach is to claim that the law can not stop research or whatever is under discussion , so why try ? |
| 7 | that 's , that 's gon na happen and the fellows go along with it like when Tony first decided to move and that I thought oh great he 's found a place back in Basingstoke you know , we went and looked at them and everything and he turns round and changes his mind or he 's in the , you know he 's worried or nervous |
| 8 | He is there to listen to the evidence , to present the evidence to the jury , the jury then , say , whether the man in the dock or woman in the dock or whatever 's in the dock , is guilty or not guilty . |
| 9 | The transfer function of the low-pass prototype is given by equation ( 12.12 ) and substituting expression ( 12.43 ) for s generates the modified transfer function On the other hand , direct analysis of the network of figure ( 12.4 ) yields or which is of course of the same form . |
| 10 | There was a pool of isolation and she was in the middle of it . |
| 11 | Beetles had fed on the pollen of cycads and they were among the first to transfer their attentions to the early flowers like those of magnolias and waterlilies . |
| 12 | ‘ But just between you and me and SHE magazine , her Majesty and I are like that , ‘ said Dame Edna , indicating a royal chumminess that went beyond mere Commonwealth ties . |
| 13 | ‘ The more I 'm into music and the more I 'm into guitar playing , I realise it is n't about how great a guitar player you are ; it 's about writing songs and it 's about fitting guitar and voice together . |
| 14 | these are recommendations from a joint working party D of E of the erm local authority association and they are to almost unbelievable for us to consider and I can only assume that the that we must remember that this is really a response to what I call Heseltine 's last squeeze which was the idea of executive mayors and so in a sense lip service which has to be paid somewhere along those lines but it does recommend that we think seriously about cabinet govern government about single party committees and I ca n't imagine how anybody in their right minds would argue now that the cabinet government when they see what cabinet government leads to in Westminster and what de facto cabinet government leads to in majority ruled councils up and down the country erm , there is of course a I think a misleading er er brownie point the idea of relaxing restrictions on members allowances but members must realise why that is in there . |
| 15 | Her name was Nellie and she was in the same class as me at school and her family had not long moved into the neighbourhood . |
| 16 | Just recently I went out with my sister and girlfriend and we were in a restaurant looking for a table . |
| 17 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 18 | Whatever measures are derived from a structured task , we are still likely to be left wondering how they relate to the language the child uses in everyday settings and it is to a consideration of procedures for sampling naturalistic language production that we now turn . |
| 19 | Coil tap the bridge , back off the boost and you are into a whole new range of hot single coil sounds . |
| 20 | He 'd say , ‘ Well , I 'm in a meeting on Tuesday and I 'm on MTV on Thursday . ’ |
| 21 | Oh the thing in front of me it 's Malcolm Adams and I 'm with the National Association of British Steel Pensions . |
| 22 | Well shipping Angus , so you know when the dredgers go on er er er creeping ahead , see we used to have er what we call the head wire there used to be a wire which was all stretched out say about half a mile and what you s and erm and all according what erm how much mud you were dredging for the depth of water and then my father would give the signal to say right , cos on the , on the head wire used to have a pull , we call the pulls and they were like er a jutted piece off the wheel and he 'd say five pulls ahead and we 'd say one two three four five right and we went ahead with it and then when we were dredging sidewards you see , used to sidewards , you never went ahead with it , not all the time you c you went sidewards across the river , and erm once you got ahead your side chains they moving up cos you got so far ahead th that the side chains were n't much good to you , so you had to then move your side chains so you got a little off the mud in an old boat and then re further up the river . |
| 23 | County Council 's encouraged by the fact that the introduction Policy E two is supported by all the North Yorkshire Districts and they are after all at the sharp end of implementing structure policy . |
| 24 | I mean if they really sort of tried to make a story out of it and they could n't , they contacted the council offices and everyone was on holiday or nobody 'd answer the phone or what normally happens at council offices , they 'd say ‘ Oh , well , sod this , ’ and they 'd go away and they 'd do the , you know , write it up in a really nasty way so |
| 25 | Marie and me were on our honeymoon , staying with my brother in Darlington , when I got this letter from my mother saying we must come back immediately because they were starting the shoot . |
| 26 | After the war a man called Alec Howson in Barnard Castle ran the trips and it was with him that we went to Loch Lomond . |
| 27 | No , there will be guidelines and you 're in the know anyway so you 'd be telling at your curriculum area meetings , you 'd be saying |
| 28 | I 'm from Nebraska and he 's from Kentucky and the accent is fairly similar , we both have very nasal accents and I just pushed this as a musical thing . ’ |
| 29 | After about two minutes of watching I realised that it was a travel programme and they were in Corfu so I changed the channel . |
| 30 | He has a singular mind and what is on it at the moment , seems , in our time of stagnation , to speak for a lost England ; and England which for the moment has been buried beneath the slogans of ideology and the jargon of modish materialism and press vendettas and bile . |