Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two thirds of them scratch a living from the soil . |
| 2 | Listen to him/her say a text or story slowly , then listen as he/she speeds it up in successive repetitions . |
| 3 | Tell me tell me want a biscuit ? |
| 4 | Me want a biscuit |
| 5 | So it does pay you to be a member of R A C , National Breakdown , A A or whatever because at least most of them provide a service where they can take you to your destination and or arrange further transport for you . |
| 6 | I gain a sense of achievement knowing I can see a job through to the end . ’ |
| 7 | Occasionally I change a banner but I take no responsibility . |
| 8 | If I change a number here , you 'll notice , si since I change that number here it recalculates through to the other file . |
| 9 | You know when I , when I change a nappy ? |
| 10 | Oh I accept there is obviously concern and I will try and meet that when I introduce a package of measures at the end of November in the normal uprating statement to help those on lowest incomes who are affected by this . |
| 11 | Guidelines can be laid out , but your own taste will decide what you will use , and this is especially true where rods are concerned , e.g. when long-range legering for all species other than carp and pike I favour a rod between 11ft and 11ft 6in. in length , a test-curve of a little over 1lb , with a fast-taper action . |
| 12 | Though I advocate a return to the distinction , as the foundation of education , I am far from endorsing the Platonic evaluation . |
| 13 | I repeat a proposition that I made to a previous Leader of the House . |
| 14 | I repeat a suggestion that I made to the Secretary of State at the time of the last atrocity in Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | I declare a bias immediately ; I am a practitioner , and I do have large grants in this field . |
| 16 | I mean a steam tug you got to have coal and you got to have the old boiler , old boiler , you got to heat that up for the steam cos that did n't pay then . |
| 17 | I mean a machine , d well they do , they do carry timber but you got ta have the men there have n't you ? |
| 18 | I mean y when th I mean a gang on a timber boat , they 'd be ten men and one hatch man and that 's eleven men . |
| 19 | I mean a wall clock is an nice additive to the room . |
| 20 | I mean a classic is |
| 21 | ‘ Or perhaps I mean a hurricane . |
| 22 | , I mean a mess . |
| 23 | ‘ I mean a man — or any companion . ’ |
| 24 | Well , of course , again if you want to see what a neutron or a proton is made of , I mean a neutron is a very small thing and a proton is a very small thing — it 's about ten to the minus thirteen centimetres across . |
| 25 | Now you might think well stags have harem groups and they 've got these enormous antlers and they could bully and er I mean a harem group looks kind of fascist kind of social structure you know when a male dominates female , but in fact field observations of how stags actually deal with their females show that they 're very tender erm towards them and they have to have the cooperation of the female in order to mount . |
| 26 | By future I mean a couple of seasons from now , the current season although not a write off by any means has lost a lot of meaning the league appears once again to be going to the scum and we 're out of the League cup thingy . |
| 27 | Cos then i I mean a couple of times I 've , like I would n't |
| 28 | I do n't know because I mean a couple of people have changed cos it 's the only time that they can have it . |
| 29 | I mean a couple of them do , I mean like Kipling housemaster and stuff . |
| 30 | By restricted professionality I mean a professionality which is intuitive , classroom-focused , and based on experience rather than theory . |