Example sentences of "[prep] and [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was put off it from an early age because it used to be used in the by-lines in the Daily Telegraph and it sort of and it looked a bit wrong . |
| 2 | Right , the problem is that I ca n't seem to get through on the telephone , I phoned and her secretary came back and said you 've to phone and she gave me a guy 's name like and I got a number for him so I phoned it , ah he works in our Edinburgh office I phoned the Edinburgh office . |
| 3 | The nine , well you go down into and you get a bus go wherever it dropped you and then half a mile , mind you that 's gon na cost you about fifty P |
| 4 | And then what would we do with so that 's the first pizza that 's dealt with and they got a piece like that out of the first one . |
| 5 | At the informal meeting I had with and we discussed a procedure for dealing with litter . |
| 6 | She 'd be good to be seen with and she had a sense of humour . |
| 7 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 8 | It 's the same here , but they do all get listened to and they get a reply . |
| 9 | They do all get listened to and they get a reply . |
| 10 | And er so this student came to and I organized a conference and took the chair for him you know and er and helped him every possible way . |
| 11 | And some sneaky feller who was in the promotion stakes as well , he found this out and passed the word on and they laid a trap for three fellers , one night after twelve . |