Example sentences of "[det] and [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another factor which has reinforced this and which has hardly been remarked on in this context is the telephone . |
| 2 | I speak through this and it bounces of the dish to the other one . |
| 3 | ‘ There are a number of problems with this and it uses NHS money in a quite fruitless way . ’ |
| 4 | when we us the last two and that one exploded on me I had this and it goes and exploded all over me and went over |
| 5 | Many agency nurses do this and it poses no problems . |
| 6 | There 's a very strong religious tinge er er to this and it 's argued that the holy alliance is perhaps an expression of of a significant religious revival that 's going on erm in Europe in the early nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Our lads know this and it 's many months ago that they first trained their sights on success in Newry . ’ |
| 8 | A lot of time and thought has been given to this and it looks like the best way of dealing with it is … because … . |
| 9 | We want satisfaction , we want completeness in life , and so we try this and it gives it for a moment , but when it 's finished we 've got ta try something else . |
| 10 | This is I think there is an administrative question how we handle this and it seems to be running very well . |
| 11 | Erm that this council had a tradition of actually putting forward information in as straightforward a way as possible and indeed the attitude of the citizens ' er charter working party demonstrates that we actually put a value on this and it seems to me that there is a gap if you like , between what some people in the conservative group are doing in this context and what they 're actually doing in working parties and in committees and it comes out elsewhere as well . |
| 12 | Reference has already been made to this and it has been emphasised that the requirement of a nominal monetary value is an arbitrary and illogical one which has been rejected in certain other common law jurisdictions . |
| 13 | ‘ We have approached the council about this and it has just not moved , ’ she said . |
| 14 | That 's a good question and that 's quite interesting , yes , they can actually if a girl has this and she becomes pregnant she has to go back on to her low protein diet while she 's pregnant in case her baby is affected right . |
| 15 | And the f the the younger apprentices used to plunk on a Monday afternoon and all go along to Street to the this and she says , You did n't need to buy sweeties it was the rails of the gallery were sticking with toffee . |
| 16 | ‘ She rings up and complains to James that she has n't any money and she wants this and she wants that . |
| 17 | She took it through to the lounge and laid it on the rug and at first I was amused But I could see all was not well because she sat as she usually does , but for a long time — over half an hour — then she lay down like this and she has n't moved . " |
| 18 | No doubt you 've both already discussed this and she has persuaded you to go against my wishes ? ’ |
| 19 | she said it 's hard enough for people with jobs to exist today without all this and she 's gone back to college on the flexi idea , erm , brush up her typing because she said , now whether she 's thinking of future years , she said when she left here that time , although she got that job she said it was n't easy , she said because I had no bits of paper as such , although when I did the test I passed it , she said it was n't simple , so she 's doing |
| 20 | bastards likes this and she starts laughing . |
| 21 | Every baptised German who has not done this and who pays income tax must also pay the additional church tax . |
| 22 | And I went oh God , that 's probably cos it did n't happen like this and he goes oh right and he goes yeah got a bit excited there for a minute did n't you son like and went er yeah well Andy I like , quite like him , he 's quite sweet but |
| 23 | Ah now you think about it , I mean there was this question in our maths test and I was chatting to him in the dinner queue about it and I was going yeah it was this and he goes oh you 're probably right and he was agreeing with me and I found out later that I was wrong but he still agreed with me . |
| 24 | He realizes that they ca n't , people ca n't be guaranteed to do this and he points out there are four different motivations that people might have that conflict with the er moral motivations . |
| 25 | So he 's walking down the street , trying ah , trying ah to get his mind off this and he gets on a train . |
| 26 | I told him this and he says , Is that all it takes minutes . |
| 27 | Tell me was I dreaming or did I see a sketch on T V where there 's a car driving round , down the road being chased by the police and the driver said to the passenger er here take this and he says what 's that for and he says it 's to steer the car , presses a button and the car splits |
| 28 | And when he gets up and he 's got to do this and he 's got to do that , ! |
| 29 | and he goes off the big city ma ma , like this and he 's got a fucking flying helmet and a flying bucket |
| 30 | However , he often appears to be saying much more than this and he has certainly been taken as making significant generalisations about the nature of literacy as such . |