Example sentences of "questions and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not remember anyone ever asking us these questions and we are not sure we could have given a reasonable answer until we had been married nearly twenty years . |
| 2 | There are just a few questions and we 'll let you go back to the Vicarage . |
| 3 | We 've done very well cos there 's four we 've got five questions and we were only asked for four . |
| 4 | er and I 'll just run through this for about five minutes and then any questions and we 'll go . |
| 5 | No er the most annoying thing about last night was when , when Martin was actually reviewing erm some of the topics that we had n't got right erm and Martin was prompting us with questions and we answered them ! |
| 6 | There are detectives and DCIs and Chief Supers and Commanders every fucking where ; more tecs and CID guys and Anti-Terrorism Squad chaps and regional guys than you can shake a nightstick at , all asking questions , all asking the same fucking questions and me trying to give the same fucking answers ; seeing DI McDunn , sucking saliva through his teeth and letting me share.his B&Hs , is like meeting an old pal even though he 's got all his questions too . |
| 7 | Both committees , therefore , were concerned with similar questions and they were serviced by the same secretariat . |
| 8 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 9 | If they did , they would be forced to answer parliamentary questions and they might find that they were responsible for feeding the refugee population . |
| 10 | Well I look at this quiz thing called Bamboozle and the quiz master 's called Bamber Boozler , which I think 's a bit sad but they sa , you send in , you 're supposed to send in twenty questions and they put them on . |
| 11 | Maxims fell all around you , insistently repeated : Ask no questions and you 'll hear no lies . |
| 12 | So do n't feel that that you should wait until the end although we do leave a a little bit at the end just for questions and you may have noticed that there 's either a tea break or a meal break after each talk . |
| 13 | I refuse to answer any more questions and you ca n't make me . ’ |
| 14 | li as he said it does n't matter if you do n't remember it but if people ask you questions and you do n't know the answer , please send them down . |
| 15 | Relating , you form a , a bond basically between you and the customer , that 's why you sell well , cos you gel well with your customers , there 's empathy there , you 've got to come across as caring and sharing , but you 've got ta ask questions and you listen to the answers , right , you 've got to basically treat their problems as if they were your own , do you know what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 16 | Again , you 'll see a good example of that , where closed questions are good in a situation if you want to get a direct answer to somebody who tends to waffle , but again , if you 're asked closed questions and you want to give information , it is harder , it 's easier if you ask somebody an open question and on the film , John Cleese comes up with the starters to an open question , which are the Who , What , Which , Why , Where , When questions . |
| 17 | You 're trying to focus attention on the presenter , the person giving the speech or answering the questions and it is a dreadful distraction to have beside and behind him or her numbers of men and women who invariably want to whisper , gesticulate , stare in the wrong direction , scratch their heads , pick their noses or make their exits at completely the wrong moment . |
| 18 | Clients fill in a form that asks all sorts of personal questions and it is analysed and ‘ matched ’ to a likely candidate for their consideration . |
| 19 | Willis 's work also shares Robson 's view of courts as framers of judicial policy on social and political questions and it contains a number of pointed criticisms of the normativist style . |
| 20 | Only early photographs and documentary and other materials could begin to resolve some of the arguments and questions and it was at this point that material from the archives , old maps , early photographs , traveller 's descriptions , census records , trade directories , window tax or hearth tax assessments , and so on could be meaningfully introduced to children hungry for further knowledge . |
| 21 | Erm the er most important item I think Chairman is the work programme for the future year which commences at erm about twelve and forms the second half of the report and I would be very happy to deal with any questions and it is very clearly in the light of things that we 've already said , the first part of er that latter half of the report er which er emphasises the erm principal activities er to the department er that of strategic policy in paragraphs thirteen one , thirteen two and thirteen three are therefore perhaps the areas to which I would er draw you attention er most , but the report as whole is er I hope a reasonably succinct summary of what has gone on or what is proposed to be done and er in order to avoid simply what is already in the report , I , I would leave it at that point and say I 'm happy to deal with any questions . |
| 22 | But we all have our own ideas about the answers to these big questions and it ought to be left to the discretion of class teachers to allow their pupils to learn about life 's problems in their own time and at their own pace . |
| 23 | Or maybe even further than that : to those warm sunny days when she sat watching her Daddy and asking him questions and he told her like he always did - ‘ Go and play , there 's a good girl . ’ |
| 24 | I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman was here earlier , but a question on the matter was raised with the Leader of the House during business questions and he answered it . |
| 25 | questions and he , he understands it all . |
| 26 | very settled in the library er she went to the interview er and she said she 'd er remembered everything that the teacher had told them about how to present themselves at interviews and she went down and the er , the librarian says well , asked her a few questions and he says |
| 27 | But sometimes Creggan and Kraal would ask Minch questions and she would speak of things she knew and wisdom she had taught herself or remembered from her distant past at Callanish . |
| 28 | ‘ Just a few questions and I 'll leave you in peace . ’ |
| 29 | I 'm sorry but I , I want to be fair to everybody , yeah and I also want to be fair to the debate that 's still to come later this afternoon , but I 've called for questions and I 'd like everybody to start their statement with the question which they 're going to put to the convenor . |
| 30 | speaker that you 've put your questions and I think they 're sufficiently clear for the convenor to reply . |