Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [be] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 No , I I mean I was on the phone and th , there was a knock at the door and this woman came round and said she was from from the
2 I mean I was at the party but I did n't see anything suspicious . ’
3 I mean one day , I mean I was in a customer care meeting for three hours on Monday , so obviously I lost some there , but you know , that particular day I was on a , just on the phone personally on my B M S for just over three hours , and just looking at the other things that I had to deal with .
4 I REALISE I 'm in a minority of one when I say I 'm bored with Beres Hammond 's indisputably soulful voice , but many of his records seem to lack the sheer excitement of ragga .
5 Oh yes , you say I 'm on a diet , they say oh well you have lost a lot of weight then .
6 Say I 'm from the Ministry of Justice . ’
7 He 'd called her Rory earlier in the evening — when they 'd been dancing , when he 'd kissed her and made her completely forget she was in the middle of a crowd of people .
8 Like you say you 're at the mercy .
9 Say you 're with a group of students and erm you 're sitting round drinking coffee one morning , and the sun 's shining .
10 because you 've past it so it that 's it , so , when you were here , when you , when you , say you 're in the ship ,
11 ‘ Last night , when you say you were on the Wheel with him ? ’
12 But the haemorrhage of people since travel was eased in the past few years , and the mass exodus of the past weeks suggest they are in a minority .
13 Teachers say they 're of no benefit .
14 They say they are from the People 's Liberation Army .
15 I do n't know where your plectrum is , I expect it 's on the floor somewhere waiting for my hoover to get it !
16 No idea just see expect it 's on the notices or send a .
17 I expect he was after a squirrel or a bird up there ; he 's a regular hunter .
18 Say it 's for the snapper . ’
19 It 's cost more than a million pounds , but staff and children say it 's worth every penny .
20 Again as you say it 's in the middle of nowhere in n it ?
21 I say it was on the cards because throughout the match the Scousers used the tactic of playing the long ball towards Rush and it was then quite simply a one-on-one race with either Fairclough or Newsome .
22 He 's so quiet now you forget he 's in the house .
23 Since the Vendor will have entered into the relevant contracts in the first place it is for the Vendor to take the risk as saying whether or not the contracts fall within these categories .
24 I sense it is within a kilometre of the castle .
25 Unless they say he 's on the bottle .
26 Imagine my being in a position to tell Michel something that he ought to know — that may be vital for him to know . ’
27 Sex with him never really satisfies me and only works if I imagine I 'm with a woman .
28 Relax deeply , then imagine you are in a landscape or townscape of some kind .
29 She used to show you a collection of photographs which she kept in her wallet as if they were family photographs , but in fact these pictures were all pictures of men 's cocks , she used to make them stop on the way home at the photobooth in the entrance to the station , she 'd make them stand on the stool with their trousers down , she never got caught — Greta , on seeing me leave with an especially handsome man : ‘ I hope you 're on the pill . ’
30 Yes , you 've certainly scored a winner this month , folks , I hope you 're over the moon about it !
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