Example sentences of "[prep] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irrespective of the fact that many , perhaps most of these jobs are low paid , dirty ( even the gleaming electronics industry is on the defensive against charges of health and safety problems for its workforce ) and monotonous , they are very widely sought after and they carry high prestige . |
| 2 | Plants need to be nurtured they need to be looked after and they need to be made they need to know that they come out with id with their ideas . |
| 3 | Of course , for about two years you know after and everybody went to something or other . |
| 4 | So I says , oh I says , saying what they were and she said , oh , she said , and I 've got some mugs Auntie Elsie bought you and a bit after and she said , she said , there 's them four mugs for Angela . |
| 5 | ’ I 've got a young family to look after and I have a full-time job . |
| 6 | and said after and I have . |
| 7 | I can but yeah that 's why I have such a guilt complex after and I think oh that was really horrible like |
| 8 | and she , he , she goes down to the abortion centre right after and he dies ! |
| 9 | Councillor said , is extremely important to the people of and we 've learnt a lot in politics over the last ten years . |
| 10 | Alright to go a third of the way round you 'll go one third of and we know how to write of . |
| 11 | Erm what thin would you like to do more fractions , more counting or you you think whatever it is that you 'd like to do more of or is there anything you think we do too much of and we do n't you do n't want to do as much . |
| 12 | Fortunately , there is another part of Dorset which Hardy was particularly fond of and which has nothing to attract visitors en masse . |
| 13 | As they approached Jerusalem near the towns of and they came to the of olives , Jesus have decided ahead . |
| 14 | yes , well I used to read a lot of story books , travel avidly and I think I forget all about the author and the story , but I remember one portion where they discovered a depression in the middle of a continent where it was in excess of and they 'd grown quite a different specie |
| 15 | We put immense pressure on them , we tried everything we could , we raised it with the Transport Users consultative committee at National Level , we wrote to the minister and all kinds of and they did n't budge at all , you would n't think they were a public body . |
| 16 | I wanted no children of my own , not because I disliked them , although I did — my step-sister and brother were the only small children I had experience of and they aroused no feelings in me but exasperation and distaste — but because I did n't want to be a mother with the weight of life and death on me . |
| 17 | She had one year of and she thinks erm it 's boring , bit of a dump ! . |
| 18 | But she spoke of and she kept speaking about him being |
| 19 | So what with Carole 's soft voice and that we did n't get a lot of and it seemed as though it was well like that , several times I went last year and I really got a bit cheesed off . |
| 20 | I was put off it from an early age because it used to be used in the by-lines in the Daily Telegraph and it sort of and it looked a bit wrong . |
| 21 | No , it was a piece I am very fond of and it happened to be in quite a few programmes at that time . |
| 22 | And there 's a book and it 's oh about quarter of and it 's got the bible written in fourteen nineties . |
| 23 | Cos they we we were , we were doing it and and wha they were all kinds of and it 's got and I like , rushed it over to the sink and , and then just and then with the table it fell |
| 24 | And she used to love taking a new ten shilling note out of and I 've saved this for holiday . |
| 25 | These birds come from America , so they are difficult to get hold of and I had the added problem that I was looking at the end of the breeding season . |
| 26 | The first two of those were also included were made public , they are in the issue 's papers it did not make public the county council 's proposal as to who should be participants for each topic since those were matters for the the panel er to ma take a view of and I understood er from er the question er the answer to the question that it had been made clear that er the information had been made public except as always Chairman , er our legal office 's of the council always like that caveat that in case anything had been missed out I had just in fact suggested that perhaps not everything had been made public so I anticipated a possible supplementary question from Mr . |
| 27 | We really do have a health service to be proud of and I thank all concerned . |
| 28 | I was working and all of a sudden and one the woman began to sing Rock of Ages in a loud voice and then the man joined in and I sort of thought I heard sort of and I thought oh , they 've got a bottle which they 've taken out of their pockets which they were passing from side to side . |
| 29 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't want to boast , but every mother knows what their child is capable of and I know Anthony is capable of a grade one . ’ |