Example sentences of "[det] and [pron] [verb] " 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 | Jenny said nothing to this and they sat silent in the darkening room . |
| 8 | Each new resident and member of staff is given this and they find it very helpful . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They hear sort of rhyming slang and things like this and they think my god what 's he on about . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I complained to Northumbrian Water about this and they gave me a very dusty answer . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But they 're doing this and they seem to be doing it quite unstressed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The patients realise this and they do not expect any effective help anymore : medicines , sutures , needles are all scarce or absent . |
| 22 | They they change everything over do n't they , they they do n't do this and they do n't do that . |
| 23 | Others see this and they do cope , but keep their heads down . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Yes , at fifty instead of sixty , they said you retire at age fifty and we will make your pension up to what you would have got at age sixty and we will also do the same with you lump sum and so now you know , this and they did that with thirty thousand I think went in one year , it does n't take long to get rid of one point seven billion pounds when you 're doing for that er that number of people erm and |
| 26 | Some of the characters that people produce from this and they did them like Parkinson did , a Rolling Stone ball J , but outlined in drop shadow . |
| 27 | But the UK had never had a product like this and they needed it , ’ says John Bartic , visiting professor at Strathclyde University and joint chief executive of Bartle Bogle Hegarty ( BBH ) , the agency appointed to handle the launch and subsequent roll-out . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | We could have bumped up interest rates but the client was reluctant to do this and we felt that a more cost-effective promotion would work . |
| 30 | 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 . |