Example sentences of "[det] and [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean the thing that they latch onto all the time is that they think it 's perfectly reasonable that they should compliment a young woman and so on , and I do see , Bill , that this is a problem because these men have been brought up like this and they think of themselves as being polite and courteous and , you know , a little flirtatious and doing all the things that actually they were taught women like and is rather nice . |
| 2 | Newcastle had lost just one League game away from home before this and they started with all the confidence of a four-match winning run behind them . |
| 3 | But they 're doing this and they seem to be doing it quite unstressed . |
| 4 | put it together on a training session on this and they rely on you and perhaps talk through to the session and say look that when I say this sort of thing , will you be the person that demonstrates or gives me answer you know , this sort of thing . |
| 5 | In NZ this would be no problem as there would be loads of backpackers ( cheap accommodation ) within cooee of the airport , but Britain being a backward country there is nothing like this and we stayed with friends who live 20 miles away in the heart of the Sussex countryside . |
| 6 | I speak through this and it bounces of the dish to the other one . |
| 7 | In contrast , Cramlington is ‘ non-urban ’ and was intended to be a more or less ( there was always some equivocation about this and it grew over time ) free-standing new town , located on a ‘ green field ’ site quite separate from the Tyneside conurbation . |
| 8 | He goes well I was playing with your chicken like this and it spat at me , so I bit its head off , clamped its eggs and set fire to its nest ! |
| 9 | A lot of time and thought has been given to this and it looks like the best way of dealing with it is … because … . |
| 10 | This is I think there is an administrative question how we handle this and it seems to be running very well . |
| 11 | Erm that this council had a tradition of actually putting forward information in as straightforward a way as possible and indeed the attitude of the citizens ' er charter working party demonstrates that we actually put a value on this and it seems to me that there is a gap if you like , between what some people in the conservative group are doing in this context and what they 're actually doing in working parties and in committees and it comes out elsewhere as well . |
| 12 | The first was just 20 minutes after the polls closed when , during a sample of random live interviews in Manchester , a man with a business on the verge of bankruptcy cheerfully admitted that the Tories had got him into this and he relied on them to get him out . |
| 13 | Fleischmann certainly was concerned about the momentum of events ; the news from Harwell magnified this and he expressed to some colleagues his nervousness and wish that the press conference could be stopped . |
| 14 | He had a nice red car and he had this and he looked like a singer , like er , you know the kind of things that I like , right , women that look , they dress nicer , like . |
| 15 | So he 's walking down the street , trying ah , trying ah to get his mind off this and he gets on a train . |
| 16 | And my hands were going like this and I looked at my clock and it was about six o'clock and it was still pitch black because it jump back into bed . |
| 17 | I did well , I had hundred pound in me purse last night till Steve says can I have me pocket money and can I have me petrol and can I have this and I paid for coal and I 've got forty . |
| 18 | They are like the metaphorical gender attributions we examined at the beginning of this chapter , in that they follow no single principle , they do not remain constant from one context to another and they vary from culture to culture . |
| 19 | Based on the teaching of Jesus about confessing faults one to the other , each brother chose another and they confessed to and directed each other . |
| 20 | John came around to my flat after work one day , one thing led to another and we went to bed together . |
| 21 | We went from one corner of the country to another and we stayed in palaces and magnificent hotels and played in beautiful little theatres , and then two weeks later , we 'd be in a dark bungalow with cockroaches and snakes in the loo , where they had desks tied together with string for a stage . |
| 22 | Clearly , the structure and mode of operation of mixed professional — paraprofessional teams will vary from one setting to another and it needs to be acknowledged that in a variety of situations it would be an inappropriate social service practice model . |
| 23 | The much vaunted ‘ subsidiarity ’ principle has nothing to do with federalism as such and everything to do with Catholic social theory . |
| 24 | Everybody was drinking too much and I felt like a Mother Superior at the bottle factory outing . |
| 25 | Too much work and people lose touch with each other ; too little and they get under one another 's feet . |
| 26 | Another species , however , has only about twenty young but provides them with more yolk each and they remain within the sac until they become froglets . |
| 27 | But , when you consider that seeds of F1 geraniums cost 20-30p each and they need to be sown in a heated greenhouse in January or early February , plants are a better buy . |
| 28 | like that and they go round the windows . |
| 29 | and they got chaff from the farms you see , they were sent down before the fishing and they filled that and they lay on that . |
| 30 | Liked to pull that down that 's a normal hip joint , this is your bony pelvis with the socket joint , right , socket , this is your leg bone the femur , with the head of the femur at the top and it looks like that and they fit into one another and it forms a very good swinging joint you can do all sorts of things with your hip joint , ca n't you ? |