Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you get all monies applied for or only part payment or none at all ? ! |
| 2 | Everybody knows — including I think members of the Council from all three political groups — everybody knows that we 've got increasing numbers of elderly people , we 've got increasing numbers of disabled and mentally ill people in the community , and if there is one service , and I know there are others , but if there is one service that needs constant new growth it 's Social Services , and that 's not me empire building or anything like that , that 's me simply saying in straight managerial terms there are forces which require us to increase the Social Services budget . |
| 3 | Downstairs wastes ( from the kitchen sink , for example ) can be taken out to a gully as in the older system , except that they must discharge below the level of the grid on the top of the gully , which means using a back-inlet gully or one with a hole cut in the grid . |
| 4 | ‘ Have you ever been an alcoholic or anything like that ? ’ |
| 5 | I think it were the Irish Times or something , or the Irish Betting Times or something like that , and she was the only one who did n't draw a horse , and she thought oh well that 's it , no chance . |
| 6 | He had forgotten all about arranging for a taxi to pick him up or looking up bus times or anything like that . |
| 7 | They 've all got a vision about their listeners , their viewers , their readers and so forth , and when they pick something , a press release , or when they hear a story or something like that , their mind 's going click click click ‘ How can I use this in a way that I can turn it into a form which is usable for my people ? ’ in a sense . |
| 8 | some local paper or even , might of been Daily Express or summat like that you see |
| 9 | In fact you you the classroom was always full , there were no spare seats at desks or anything like that , and if one was empty you knew something was really radically wrong . |
| 10 | ‘ Ca n't we do lions or something for a change ? ’ |
| 11 | They must be independent , not mention in the will you ca n't have a beneficiary who 's a witness , you ca n't have a husband or wife of a beneficiary as a witness either because not I 'm told very first clause there are n't , to get a duplicate made bungalow or something like that he might be missing out on the bungalow and the was The course leader at the time told me the story that saw him and he would n't tell me who it was I want my ten percent commission . |
| 12 | I think something big could have been found — a cow pasture or something like that ! ’ |
| 13 | See any crack in the drain or anything like that , all of their burrowing and they 'll get through it ! |
| 14 | The Germans and the English have plenty in common with each other , but what have you in common with the Russians or we with the Japanese ? ’ |
| 15 | The Russians or something like that . |
| 16 | And there was the beds that was there there was beds were still in that bothy and there was there were three of them must have been in the bed you see , and then there was a a board that they slipped in half up the bed and there was a a mattress or whatever on that and another three on that . |
| 17 | Have a bath or change or whatever before dinner ? ’ |
| 18 | Yeah , even connected it on the end here , the , the station and set this display decoder up and it even did it there so it was nothing to do with the live lamp wire , the way they routed it we thought that perhaps rerouted it to the cable or something like that |
| 19 | And in the Football Post er cos everybody used to have the Football Post then , not like now , and so everybody knew what was in it and er there was like a Who and Why column in the Football Post and one of these was , Who will stop County now , you see because they was at top of the second division or something like that , and the team that was next to them was City in them days you see . |
| 20 | For example , I mean , if a tutor , say , has been sexually harassing a young woman , and she puts in a complain of any kind or something like that , and then he puts pressure on her to withdraw that complaint and she does , I mean does the college at that stage stay well okay if she 's not going to complain then we wo n't do anything , thereby letting the harassment go ahead , or does the college say even though she does n't want to complain we 're nevertheless going to go ahead . |
| 21 | try and get a list of contacts or something to , I mean Lucy 's quite happy to do it and |
| 22 | Nor should it be assumed that the division of the language items into lexis , structure and discourse function presents students with problems of equal difficulty or me with identical roles in each case . |
| 23 | You know the old adage that , I mean one of the reasons is it 's so much easier to come up with a scandal , to come with a rats in the basement or something like that and intrigue people , than it is to come up with some , the positive angles . |
| 24 | It 's not like the washing powder or something like that , they reckon you said it 's just you know |
| 25 | after the exams or something like that , yes |
| 26 | The path was bumpy in places , and sent her up from the saddle and down again violently , but she did n't pause to think about bruises or anything but getting to the bridge before the van . |
| 27 | They 'd been making er some mixed powder , fenugreek or something like that you see ? |
| 28 | Go put a poultice or something on Simon 's eye before he uses up all the raw meat in the kitchen . ’ |
| 29 | He spent like four hours or something with the attorney general and with these three other staff over there … and they spent most of the time talking about all aspects of the Iran initiative and so forth , and then at the very end Meese pulled out that April memo … and said , ‘ what about this ? ’ |
| 30 | He 's been in custody for two or three , three days , thirty six hours or something like that already , and not been able to see his family , and er got into all sorts of mess because of that Madam . |