Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ai n't no building them just to get all out and up done , I mean the programme now looks crowded , but when you look at the new programme it 's just full , there 's nowhere else and no more room in them boxes to write my instead of one every two , three months , there 's four and five every month starts something |
| 2 | Theyspoketo them nicely but if I asked them for anything it was as though they could n't be bothered . |
| 3 | If they like sentence me straight away for doing something like I 'd think to myself is it worth it ? |
| 4 | Last March , in common with many other small businesses , the Russells needed extra funds to tide them over a difficult period . |
| 5 | This includes those who are temporarily between jobs and drawing unemployment benefit to tide them over until the new job is taken up . |
| 6 | And , as Appendix III shows , there 's the additional incentive , for many people , in keeping in with Mr Jones in case times get hard and they have to appeal to him for a loan to tide them over . |
| 7 | I can do nothing to help except give them good references and a few quid to tide them over . |
| 8 | Her husband had opened a bookshop to support her and their two children , but it was " imperative for her to work " at her old job as reader , " to tide them over for a year or two " . |
| 9 | And er to try and tide them over . |
| 10 | Erm to keep them to tide them over . |
| 11 | I mean the only thing that an appeal fund like that should do is to give the widows and dependents of the the dead of the platform , it should give them immediate money to tide them over until they get their compensation which they need . |
| 12 | Staff here are desperate for donations of both food and money to tide them over until the recession ends . |
| 13 | For example , during a recession , a large firm will commit itself to its suppliers and subcontractors for continued orders to tide them over . |
| 14 | If you lend me some to tide me over . ’ |
| 15 | I was between jobs , and I actually had enough to tide me over while I had a sabbatical . |
| 16 | I went to the National Gallery and offered to sell the two Paul Klees I had carried with me , to tide me over . |
| 17 | I will have wages to tide me over initially . ’ |
| 18 | A little to tide me over , I gather . ’ |
| 19 | It would n't be much , but would maybe tide me over till I could find something better . |
| 20 | There is bound always to be a considerable vested interest in the status quo , particularly amongst the most entrenched and powerful individuals in any institution : the way things are generally suits them well enough . |
| 21 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I just knew it was sight at first love . |
| 22 | ‘ Father , ’ said Tutilo , burning into startling whiteness , ‘ I pledge you my faith I never did nor never would have done him any harm , nor do I know of any who might need to wish him ill . |
| 23 | ‘ I mean , the two reasons I even got involved in a group were at the party — Mark Smith and John Peel . |
| 24 | Not listening was always one of my faults and one of the reasons I so frequently found myself isolated in misunderstanding : like a careless rider , cut off from the company , alone and benighted for failing to pay attention to the prevailing agreements as to intention and direction . |
| 25 | They 're one of the reasons I now make everyone come to me , rather than traipsing round the world . ’ |
| 26 | The only blokes I like is Chris Tarrant he 's quite good . |
| 27 | It 's a trick I never learnt . |
| 28 | He was receding a bit , and ‘ with long hair I always looked pretty and I do n't like being pretty — I wanted a bit more of a hard image ’ . |
| 29 | And it 's too late to put together the story I really wanted to do this week . |
| 30 | I was so deep in the story I never noticed . ’ |