Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [indef pn] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Or if the ground was kind of wet we used to er make slide then and skate along on it and if the ground got dry we would get a old bucket or something and run round to the tap at the tank at the back of the school and get a a lot of water wet till you could slip on it .
2 You used to go up with a with a sack or something and gather the chickweed er out of the tattie and neep .
3 It must have been chasing a squirrel or something and fell into the hollow and could not get out again . ’
4 The thing to do is is to sort of er plot to overthrow parliament or something and see if there 's any reaction !
5 eh brutal , er brute , er so many er only got a little bit more , eh sort of like you 've got er , I du n no , accent or something or add to it a few words , a few letters I mean , er a more I , a different accent you go to Manchester they said er different accent you go and so different one and to me from the beginning , not now , but from the beginning I was fascinate , I says why do they finish in Italian er ways , or add , you switch and them coins , erm , it still says
6 But there 's a chance that while he was searching , he found some letters or a photograph or something that tied you in with Mahoney .
7 that 's got asthma , and he often goes into or dia he 's a ba diabetic or summat and goes into comas .
8 There is utter and total confusion and anything that stands still they used to say they would paint it in industry they now say market test it and they do admit to us that the end object does not necessarily mean complete contractorization or privatization , but at this particular moment in time
9 This is a new market for hygiene and one that has significant potential for the future with increasing demands being made in safety and hygiene .
10 cos you did n't have to pay tax cos you 're a non-taxpayer and everybody that went to a building society got it taxed .
11 Formal , and informal , taboos around menstruation to some extent continued , but the ritual of male circumcision was abandoned — a fascinating development given the significance and purpose of the ritual and one that looks , at first glance , like a clean break with the past to facilitate the future and the expansion of Christianity ( see , for example , Acts 10–11 , 15 ; Romans 4 ; Gal.
12 You may now have the chance of finding a sexual experience that involves not only the taking and/or giving of pleasure but one that involves you in " sharing the experience of pleasure " in a meaningful way for both of you .
13 And they 've got this doberman or something that barks all the time like , and it 's allowed i in the garden and it sits in the garden all the time and all the rest of it !
14 His son , Mark , trained as an osteopath or something and set up in practice here .
15 If er , scientists and his team works on a , or think they are on to a discovery or something that needs researching , can get , the necessary funding , office , or firms that they benefit , say this in the previous paragraph , that 's fine , but to concentrate on topics which are I do n't think that happens .
16 It seems to me that whatever else was on the menu at County Hall last night , the dinner was principally a buttering-up exercise and one that ill-befits a county which struggled to make savings in the education budget earlier this year .
17 A second international trend present in the election and one that needs to be recognised as a global , not uniquely British , phenomenon is the decline of clear , ideologically based , alternatives to right-wing capitalism , a crisis of the social-democratic model that , far from being reversed by the disappearance of authoritarian socialism in the east , has been accentuated by it .
18 If we begin with too cavalier an attitude toward them , we may miss a certain richness in our intellectual heritage and one that had a profound bearing on how the word science was understood , by both practitioners and their public .
19 They did not have to suffer a very low-calorie diet or one that involved eating expensive and unusual foods .
20 But we just you know like Saturday night we really enjoy making a nice meal and having a nice bottle of wine or something and doing something
21 I had one repaired for Susannah , it had been left to her by an aunt and she had managed to smash it against a post or something and broke the shank and knocked out one of the erm , stones , so on and so forth , and eh , together with some repairs on a charm bracelet I had to pay thirty seven pounds for the whole jolly lot .
22 Jean , we 'll go down to where 's the fifty P shop or something and buy some of those do , er cornflakes ' plates or something , say they 're gon na fill those other ones up that the man give us a mere seven , eight ones , only leaves us four ordinary , you see I know for a fact that Sally say he was caught
23 go to the video shop or something and see who play , who does it .
24 One of the major social phenomena in Latin America since the Second world war and one that has had a profound effect on the social transformation of the continent , is the urban explosion .
25 They have become devalued as people in their own right and everything that happens to them subsequently serves to reinforce this impression .
26 It had money , fame and everything that goes with it , the biggest motor-home , the best-oiled publicity machine , you name it .
27 How do you , friends , change a structure which is still the old structure with a civil service , a security and everything that goes with it and move to one of democracy and justice because if you move too rapidly and you do not make concessions and you ignore the terrible power of the right wing with all the military might at its disposal you can very easily create in South Africa a Lebanon or indeed , yes , a Yugoslavia .
28 ‘ We were in the car and then there was a big bang and something that sounded like an explosion , ’ said Gary , who had hoped to visit friends near Lyonette Road .
29 Late in the dynasty , some species developed an even more sophisticated kind of eye and one that has never been paralleled by any other animal .
30 It 's got a bad stigma to it and that 's what 's the main problem with it , y'know , this junkie in a dirty squat with a needle hanging out of his arm and OD'ing and dealing on his doorstep and everything and looking like the pictures you see of people falling to bits , but for me personally it 's not like that , y'know , I do try to conduct a normal law-abiding life .
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