Example sentences of "[det] and [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 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
2 How people use this and they put it in the dictionary .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Each new resident and member of staff is given this and they find it very helpful .
8 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 .
9 They hear sort of rhyming slang and things like this and they think my god what 's he on about .
10 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 .
11 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
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 But they 're doing this and they seem to be doing it quite unstressed .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 I I there is no evidence that it 's an inherited or venereal problem and this is the , you know you we have there has been lots of sort of studies done to see which woman might be more at risk and which women , you know , might have symptoms and th , the fact is that the reason why you , why the menopause occurs is because the ovaries stop functioning , they stop producing oestrogen and every woman 's ovaries does this and they do it you know , at all varying ages the average age is fifty .
18 The patients realise this and they do not expect any effective help anymore : medicines , sutures , needles are all scarce or absent .
19 They they change everything over do n't they , they they do n't do this and they do n't do that .
20 Others see this and they do cope , but keep their heads down .
21 So you think that it would be inappropriate to say look this is a particular place set aside , a lot of people will use this and they do n't want to come in here the majority do n't want to come in and breathe cigarette smoke , so do n't smoke .
22 Trouble is with all this efficiency right and we can cut cost and do this and we streamline this , in the end unless you tell people , you 've still got those people on your hands have n't you , you still in the end you 've got to pay their unemployment benefit have n't you ?
23 We enclose a copy of this and we hope that you will find time to read it and see what CPRW has been up to during the past year .
24 But inevitably they 've been sort of thrown in a corner and people have fiddled around with them like I 've fiddled around with this and we find we got what , twenty or thirty of these missing .
25 Well er you know Tony says oh we want this and we want that he shall have to employ somebody to do , do them so there 's no , just get involved
26 Your holiday prices in the low season do reflect this and we feel sure that you will not be prevented from enjoying your holiday .
27 Michael Jones , the Trust 's chief executive , said : ‘ Staff are gasping for a decision on this and we need to do it urgently in order to drive up the hospital 's performance and get costs down . ’
28 Either that or we write a couple of variations on the end of this and we say the general access conforms to this but in their case , the other one is pre-booked , the extras and they have a booking schedule .
29 We we just have this weird notation that we write it like this and we say it like that cos squared Z what we mean
30 buy into this and we do n't
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