Example sentences of "[verb] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I 'd like to sleep as much as anyone , but if we all sleep and something comes , who 's going to spot it ? " |
| 2 | there 's like a big pallet all surrounded and he got a big pond down the bottom it 's erm near Grimston Common |
| 3 | She 's found something she loves and it gives her strength . |
| 4 | cos time was going on and I thought well just watch that , I knew you wanted it taped and I thought time were going on |
| 5 | She seemed very nice and I thought she could act and we had a nice rapport , but I said to Sam , ‘ I just feel she 's the wrong type for a guy who 's a teacher in college . |
| 6 | inflation is the biggest economic problem and what problem it causes and it says discuss the fact that erm with inflation now being around four to five per cent it is now a , it is now being cured , discuss that sort of thing , you say yes it has , but at the moment we 're still suffering the effects because we are in , we 've got high interest rates , we , and in order for us to have really beaten it , we could have low interest rates and low employment and low inflation , but we 're still in the middle of it |
| 7 | Before you could say Maradona , Boss Man had won and they had gone in a puff of Deep Heat vapour . |
| 8 | It was ten years since Jacklin had won and they 'd adopted Seve . |
| 9 | It was thus the internal policies of the United States that determined to a great extent who among the indebted nations won and who lost out in the long debt crisis of the 1980s ( Wellons , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ If the ball is there to be won and you 've got to go in to win that ball for your team , then maybe you are going to be in a 40-60 situation — and you 've still got to go in . |
| 11 | He clearly thought he had won and it annoyed her . |
| 12 | It was all but won and she felt at peace . |
| 13 | The coffee at the cafe had perked him up long enough to tackle the reviews but then heat and alcohol had won and he had nodded off . |
| 14 | So I carried on walking and they start going through this bleeding wood , well they had me climbing over three fence things , all like them metal you know like them metal fences at wood ? |
| 15 | His hobby is walking and he plans to take up bike riding . |
| 16 | So , if he was going , if he , he 's walking and he breaks into , a breaks into a trot , |
| 17 | If she enquired , he merely said he was going walking and he did n't know when he 'd be back . |
| 18 | It was as they approached the gates that Joe pointed away to the left and towards the hills where a man was walking and he cried excitedly , ‘ There 's Mick ! ’ |
| 19 | And on your belt , when you 're walking and you had a a lamp hook , which was got a very sharp spike on it you see , and when you was working er shovelling , you 'd stick it in a prop you see ? |
| 20 | I know , you see him , he 's walking and you see him , he 's going ruff , ruff and she 's going and I thought , no , man , I do n't care if I 'm friends with her no I 'm not going near her with the dog . |
| 21 | That 's why I 'm so thankful that I 'm on the reading and that I like sewing , I like walking and I 've made some very nice friends within easy walking distance , I can go out and have a coffee with them , because I , while I 'm recovering from the agony 's of from the finance |
| 22 | The reason I 'm asking you about that is erm I had er I had when I had my own business I was approached and we 've got an estate agent in the Hamilton called |
| 23 | My Thanks are due , ’ Prince wrote to Jardine on 7 April 1840 , ‘ for your instructions respecting the specimens in spirits , which I have since carefully examined , separated and supplied with fresh spirit ; many of them I regret to add are much decomposed and I fear some may at last prove useless . ’ |
| 24 | What follows are the most reliable facts which his early biographies ( John Aiken , 1792 and James Baldwin Brown , 1823 ) provided and which have subsequently been checked and accepted , as far as possible , from his own works and from later accounts . |
| 25 | The author recalls an able Treasury minister who , after resignation , became a convinced and cogent parliamentary reformer , explaining that as a minister he had had no time to work out this aspect of policy and therefore , since the Treasury was opposed to more specialist committees of the House of Commons , he used the brief they provided and he had been a formidable opponent of these reforms at the Cabinet Committee level . |
| 26 | In November , I wrote to him pointing that the formal period for consultation was ending and I asked when we might hear his response to the Green Paper . |
| 27 | and my concern is that our children are going to go into the er work place to try and you know establish their own |
| 28 | Would be a , be quite a few calls , but we 'll just maybe have to try and I do n't know what we 'll do . |
| 29 | I have a contract which I honour and I expect it to be honoured . |
| 30 | On the dashboard in front of him the radio crackled and he picked it up . |