Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] and [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to change the lock on their door , and the bloody lock cost thirty seven quid and each key cost five quid to cut , so we 're giving them fifty seven quids worth of security for nothing and they complain because I 'm not out by twelve o'clock . |
| 2 | oh yes he said I 've worked it out those extra hours I 've paid you for them but I thought you actually worked for them for nothing and I 've just given you a bonus |
| 3 | They helped build Kuwait and they know about Kuwait and we know about them and we trust each other . |
| 4 | Ask officials at the DSD secretariat in Bonn about them and they shrug , ‘ It 's a legal requirement , so the costs are not important . ’ |
| 5 | Like Spike Milligan , his jokes are very hard to explain — it 's difficult to say what exactly is funny about them and they do n't read well if you write them down . |
| 6 | people keep telling me about them and I do n't seem to write them down , I probably |
| 7 | They think we should breed lambs off them and we do n't do that because they are too young to stand the environment , ’ Mr Hartley said . |
| 8 | I have felt embarrassed because I 've had to meet people afterwards who I who I who I care what they think about me and I 've put in the biggest load of old rubbish . |
| 9 | She knows about me and I know about her . |
| 10 | ‘ I want to make love to you more than anything in the world , but you have doubts about me and I want everything crystal-clear between us , so ask your questions , Gemini girl . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You know next to nothing about me and you do n't know my father at all , yet you have the nerve to say such things ! |
| 12 | through them and you make sure you 've got them all down O K ? |
| 13 | I erm unfortunately , er , agree with the previous speaker that a very strong calvinistic streak runs through me and I believe in the two parent family and also in the efforts that you should make to keep the family ge together , but I think too , there 's sp , er , perceptions of individuals and particularly , younger generations now in society , are so much different from my own perceptions when I initially became married and started my own family but what society has to look at the perceptions and expectations of the individuals in society . |
| 14 | Music is a means of catharsis for them and they say they like to do things in extreme . |
| 15 | This apparently is the system which works in the family : ‘ He does favours for them and they do favours back ’ ( Pahl R.E. , 1984 , p. 340 ) . |
| 16 | Users have to ensure that the software works for them and they do not end up working for the software . |
| 17 | Now the thing that worries me is that the N R A and our linkage with them is I do n't think it 's early days for them and they have n't got the the power and the erm law behind them to enforce it as the way which I think most of us would like to think of have a erm erm an organization tha that can in fact start bringing the law in that if people fail to do what they say erm so that aspect I think I now Chris also mentioned this erm tilting in West Sussex and again that mentioned in the structure plan , because I six mill a year but in ten years that 's two and a half inches . |
| 18 | To , to make people feel sorry for them and they have no shame at all in breaking limbs and distorting their features and all so that kind to make themselves look as pitiful as they possible can because they 're going to live a life of a beggar and they tell us it 's very profitable being a beggar in some lands , people can make in this country they reckon up to in places like London a hundred pounds a day being a beggar that 's more than you earn a day is n't it ? |
| 19 | check it out for them and they want a quote , say it takes two blokes an hour each |
| 20 | As for the others : we 've trained hard for them and we think we have a good chance in the swimming . |
| 21 | They do n't set their own terms about what they expect for a good quality of life , so other people do it for them and we do a bad job of it . ’ |
| 22 | No , I know , well I mean what is there for young people to look forward to these days and I feel really sorry for them and I mean all I hope is that Jenny will get a job |
| 23 | You 'd expect about ta , thanks you used to think cor christ and then I , I mean all the bits I did for them and I remember one woman getting up saying come on Flo come and stretch and she said who are you ? |
| 24 | Sometimes you have the same person and you have lots of different scores for them and you see whether they 're correlated but most o more often than not what we 're talking about is a number of people and to see whether the pairs of scores in some way are related Now this is probably a bit more important . |
| 25 | But they they always come and knock for me and you know they kicked that , you it was them that kicked down the walls ? |
| 26 | If I 've got to turn out drawers or turn out the airing cupboard or get the kitchen tidy , it 's a relaxation for me and I like it , or just going through some interior decoration books or moving the furniture round — I 'm a great mover of furniture . |
| 27 | My brother-in-law shaved a bit more off for me and I like it . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's a great day for me and I hope we can get Barnet the promotion we deserve . |
| 29 | It 's been a very revealing programme for me and I hope for you . |
| 30 | That 's for me and I 've just the idea ! ’ |