Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [subord] i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I do n't like long titles , and er , and erm , and I am wary also of the public protection words because I think they do infer , as , as was stated quite clearly at personnel , they do infer that the Chief Fire Officer 's somewhere in there as well , and he is n't . |
| 2 | Commonly called yellow fumitory , it comes up like mustard and cress at the foot of every shady wall in the garden and I used to wrench it out with the ruthlessness I used on sycamore seedlings until I discovered it on sale in a nursery for well over £1 a plant . |
| 3 | Faced with those kind of possible reductions in service , if there is a penny one penny more than necessary spent on administration and bureaucracy wherever it is in the youth and community programme that is gon na be less money for front line vision and the Labour group can have to think very , very carefully about that and the issue is gon na be that if we 're spending too much money or if they 're coming back to supplementary estimates which wo n't be available er given the financial situation next year if we 're having two heads of centres or whatever when we could have one that is gon na mean less money for front line services to the people of Highfields and there 'll only be one group that will be responsible for that , if that does come about and I think that 's something that we all need to bear in mind because what we were told as members of that committee is that the youth and community budget is gon na be in for some very serious times in the future and it 's mainly the government 's fault because of the way they 've decided to re-organise the situation it 's going out of our hands into the control of an unelected body and like most members of this council I think we would oppose that but that 's the reality of the situation and I could not support any increase of funds er for any community centres if I knew it was simply gon na be spent on administration . |
| 4 | and they had all these great pads you know and I had all these maternity pads because I needed them you know I had to pad up and I had to and I felt so embarrassed |
| 5 | I 've got some expenses claim forms cos I thought it would be a good idea to be able to claim expenses , |
| 6 | I said I 'll leave mine out for the bloody bin men before I take it down the tippy . |
| 7 | I do n't really think that 's a fair reflection of what er what what the district councils as I understand it er would intend to do . |
| 8 | Look s s seriously the point the point I 'm making is that for for most jobs of an average sort of size , what happens under A C E scale fees as I understand it , if I 'm wrong I 'm I stand corrected . |
| 9 | We lived on chunks of fighting cock , pork and water-buffalo boiled in bamboo tubes until I thought I never wanted to eat meat again . |