Example sentences of "[adj] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know there might ha , there might have been three hundred ya , three hundred yards of houses semis and detached and they had a bit of land , but all the back of that , that was theirs ! |
| 2 | But Charlie 's Scottish and I 've saving bags of money , you know . |
| 3 | But I was young and Scottish and I thought I was the greatest . |
| 4 | She wished she could confide in Ella , but it was far too risky and she knew she would feel worse if anyone in the house knew about the baby . |
| 5 | It was risky and she knew it . |
| 6 | From what her mother had told her the experience would be horrendous and she had cried herself to sleep for the past week thinking about it . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not yet 30 and I 've still got plenty of time to earn more money , ’ he shrugged . |
| 8 | I 'm 30 and I 've been having an affair for the past five years . |
| 9 | Choose products which are fragrance-free , hypoallergenic and which offer superior UVA protection . |
| 10 | Sister Anne is teaching me French and she says my accent is really very good . " |
| 11 | Everything in bilingual Canada was written in both English and French and I realized that since my arrival I 'd been reading the French quite easily . |
| 12 | you ruin your chances so about three times a week the comes in to arrange my poll tax and all this and they get going you know well why should a bloke that having a big house and he only pays the same rate as them so I said , well it 's like this as far I 'm concerned I said you know no bloke works perhaps twice as many hours as you do he chooses |
| 13 | How people use this and they put it in the dictionary . |
| 14 | I think if a museum gets to be talked about ‘ Oh , well , they 've sold this and they 've sold that ’ I for one would want to make very sure that whatever I gave them could n't be sold . |
| 15 | We went to the er B M A or the G M C I 'm not quite sure which and asked if we could could approach er doctors for this and they 've been snapping our hands off ever since . |
| 16 | But it 's a bonus is n't it , because they 've had all this protection on this and they 've still got some cash building up . |
| 17 | looked like a great big piano , you know , with like the buttons and he were doing this and they 've got every country within range on the wa on whatever it was , wall or a gantry , and if that was n't too , too good he , he were doing something and it come up . |
| 18 | Jenny said nothing to this and they sat silent in the darkening room . |
| 19 | Each new resident and member of staff is given this and they find it very helpful . |
| 20 | Yes erm I do n't know if I mentioned you a question properly er right there were young lads in there they be young lads in that lodge do this and they jump up and they make a decision quickly . |
| 21 | They hear sort of rhyming slang and things like this and they think my god what 's he on about . |
| 22 | I mean the thing that they latch onto all the time is that they think it 's perfectly reasonable that they should compliment a young woman and so on , and I do see , Bill , that this is a problem because these men have been brought up like this and they think of themselves as being polite and courteous and , you know , a little flirtatious and doing all the things that actually they were taught women like and is rather nice . |
| 23 | Good grief it must cost them a fortune to erm you know , pay for all these then , so they give you the Walkman to , while you 're doing this and they give you the batteries , tt |
| 24 | Newcastle had lost just one League game away from home before this and they started with all the confidence of a four-match winning run behind them . |
| 25 | I complained to Northumbrian Water about this and they gave me a very dusty answer . |
| 26 | That 's right , I 've , I 've been through over the year 's I 've been doing this and they say , whether it 's because they know if the background at the er vets , the private vets there , you know I do n't know , but the information I get from them , that there 'd a , there not prepared to over . |
| 27 | You need a television , yeah , but you need a special special dish erm in Eurostep 's own publicity — I looked at this and they say the programme is available with , you know , sort of cheap and readily available sort of satellite dishes . |
| 28 | But they 're doing this and they seem to be doing it quite unstressed . |
| 29 | put it together on a training session on this and they rely on you and perhaps talk through to the session and say look that when I say this sort of thing , will you be the person that demonstrates or gives me answer you know , this sort of thing . |
| 30 | The Commons Social Services Select Committee have recently reported on this and they want all known cases reported to health authorities , and they say SOFT CHEESES SHOULD BE AVOIDED BY WOMEN EVEN CONTEMPLATING HAVING A BABY . |