Example sentences of "[n mass] and [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well she had some they were like right slim at end and then went like that , and she got the fat bit and went crrrk and it hurts like mad . |
| 2 | Allen drove a long stick through the heron and they sat on either side of the fire , turning the spit as they talked . |
| 3 | We need such data and it needs to be sensitive to regional variations . |
| 4 | I mean there 's one woman there working on a Three Eight Sixes twenty five megahertz and she works off the floppy all the time , she does n't use the hard drive . |
| 5 | Revolution Technologies Inc in Natick , Massachusetts has come up with PowerDrive , software designed to increase the file storage capacity of Sparc boxes transparently : the company says that it compresses files by 50% and it works on text and object files and executables . |
| 6 | Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head . |
| 7 | I sold the car for £45 and it ended as a write-off in the middle of a roundabout . |
| 8 | His mother was still alive , Lavinia , his younger sister by ten years , was married to a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps and herself serving as a nurse . |
| 9 | Yeah yeah a good Da Dave manages Doncaster now he 's an ex manager of Walsall as well We lived at the Brown Lion at the time and er , I , I was out the front on the Saturday evening and I er manager 's just been to fetch his Sunday joint from the local butchers and he shouted across the road to his pal how have they got on , cos there was no radio in those days , and er he says they 've won two nil and the man dropped his meat in front of him and dribbled it all the way down the road , it was such excitement it was of course all people over the moon . |
| 10 | It 's not to say that the positive news it does n't work if in fact it is of interest to people , and it strikes them as , as such , and there are all sorts of subterfuges incidentally ranging from using facts and statistics and which relate to people , to even actually using individual stories . |
| 11 | In my experience , clients will not give up their contacts amongst the trade media and they feel at their most confident when talking to someone from a publication in their own trade or profession . |
| 12 | He nearly kills people and nothing happens to him . |
| 13 | Just to show you how this has developed , you do n't need to copy this down , it 's something that you 'll do in the second year of your course , but we mentioned in particular here how you interact with people and what goes through your head . |
| 14 | We talked earlier about amateur British people and we talked about amateur British magistrates and I 'm a , an amateur British magistrate , but the question that I 'm going to put next was put by a colleague of mine , who has preferred to remain anonymous , and that is , it 's proposed to fine motorists on the spot for minor offencmes in this country in the near future , and the question is , ‘ Does this system apply in other European countries , and is it a good system ? ’ |
| 15 | I 'm not gon na go over t what my colleague has said but what I do wan na know is when are the Labour Party gon na get hold of some issue and make some sort of mileage out of it , because we 've got a number of sponsored MPs and we ca n't get 'em off the doorstep at election time , but when it comes about doing summat for us and consider the fact that it affects many many people and we talk about the links that the Labour Party and the trade union has , I think the Labour Party 's already severed 'em , as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 16 | The quality of our people have to be second to none and so our only asset would again be sensible to ensure that the best people , that we recruited the best people and we retained the best people and we wanted to be profitable , wanted to be lean and mean , hungry and er any profitable organisation is going to be a better organisation as a result of improved profitability and we then finally wanted to improve the quality of our image out there in the market place , we were seen and at least that was I think the Department , certainly my perception we were seen er as being a sort of gentle giant out there . |
| 17 | They came over to meet some people and they seemed to be interested . |
| 18 | When you are with a group of people and someone decides to be kind and ‘ bring you in ’ , out of the blue you will be told ‘ We are talking about … ’ which could be anything ranging from the Prime Minister 's latest speech or last night 's TV programme to the odd behaviour of the woman next door . |
| 19 | Yeah I agree with that , if you know somebody well , especially if you know somebody well and if you work with people and you communicate with people you build up trust , and if the communication 's there and people are talking to each other and passing on information , information 's going round and round trust 'll be there , the only time trust disappears is when somebody feels somebody 's keeping something back . |
| 20 | Both parties can get something from that situation , if you trust people and you look at things a relationship over a period of time rather than this particular thing this is what I want now this is what I 'm gon na get rather than well okay I 'll help you do this now and later on they 'll help me do something else , it becomes a win win . |
| 21 | ‘ I think when you first go into the Home , you 're frightened because you think you 'll be treated possibly as a cabbage or just somebody who ca n't do anything for themselves and that you may be completely dependent on people and you want to be independent . |
| 22 | That will require additional staff and we need to er look at that afterwards to see what effect that has on the er staffing budgets . |
| 23 | Although the order is subject to the condition precedent that ‘ the required drugs and equipment are or could reasonably be made available , ’ it makes no reference to the availability of staff and it has to be borne in mind that artificial ventilation of a young child in an intensive care unit is highly intensive of highly skilled staff . |
| 24 | sales and we go over things . |
| 25 | I would also like to erm ask that erm that we do have everything we can to ensure that where this council has the possibility as erm landowner or property owner or whatever that we prevent or certainly discourage the use of such property for car boot sales and I had in mind sales that are taking place based on erm education property and in the case of Hatfield we were able to persuade the relevant authorities to er cause the car boot sale to cease but that particular car boot sale was causing great damage to the legitimate traders in both the Hatfield market and the Hatfield town centre . |
| 26 | most of the things that I 've done have been on Atlantic salmon and you put in Atlantic salmon and you get seven thousand eight hundred |
| 27 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 28 | But his health was ruined in the works and he died in 1954 . ’ |
| 29 | An Army car was parked outside the Dog and Duck and he disappeared into the pub without looking back . |
| 30 | Companion of my heart , I trust in God that all we venture here bear fruit and I count on your prayers too , for the Lord must incline his will when such a one as you petitions him . |