Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 If , at the end of this year , the total funds — I reckon those to be £44 million , but that figure may not be quite accurate — are underspent , will my hon. Friend advertise for people who , from 1989 to 1991 , did not receive their full allocation and allow anyone , including my constituents , to apply to help them use up any unused balance ?
2 erm if if like I mean for instance we were n't clear about what we were talking about
3 Money is tight so we need to be quite clear on I mean for instance I mean the seats have been recovered you know people smoking in the seats when they should n't be smoking and putting they 're putting their cigarette 's out on the floor I do n't know
4 I 've already got one , I 'm not bothered about that , I mean for kids I think , I think it 's a good idea because well then they do n't lay on it
5 Coming in at all , so that 's , that is n't easy , but it , eh were it works it 's really good I mean for example we , we d o up the Poll Tax enforcement policy , erm and again it was where the Cou I mean if the Council had followed the legislation on Poll Tax collection , it 's you know , erm and it did n't want to do that , and so again well , it 's , well it 's related to this legislation bit , but we looked at , we looked at how we could get round that legal procedure and we looked at developing a more sensitive policy and we had to do that with other departments .
6 Erm I mean kids can do , of a similar age , can do enormously abusive things to each-other in which case it 's often thought of as things like bulling or erm or or something like that y'know I mean for example I know somebody who attende was educated at Rugby and you know he was he was buggered silly by the other boys who also wired him up to the mains and stuck billiard cues up his bum and all sort of things .
7 My task has been to reconsider some of those complicated but always significant histories wherein differences conflict and converge as desire itself .
8 Mistakes which they make about factors which determine the limits of their jurisdiction render their decisions void .
9 Think about the comments you make about people you know — both people you particularly like , and those who cause you stress and heartache .
10 Foliage gleaning birds pick insects off the leaves ; bark-investigators probe with sharp beaks into cracks ; ground-feeders scavenge for caterpillars which have dropped from trees in order to pupate .
11 Hunt for mole who revealed plans of the Royal bedrooms
12 Hunt for muggers who put knife to baby 's face
13 This is going to cause chaos in the studios and even more chaos in the home as viewers desperately hunt for shows they saw last week and which have mysteriously disappeared .
14 As the corporals head for lunch they pass a recruit from the TA platoon shepherding her visitors toward the museum , Where she is convinced that she has found a photograph of her mother , Who served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1945 .
15 But it is contradicted by Nationwide 's house prices index for November which shows a 2% fall in prices .
16 ‘ And I know what they say about people who invite other people out to dinner and then spend the whole time trying to depress them and ruin their lives . ’
17 I 'll tell you another thing , whatever the Spitting Images say about John he pays his money , he does n't grab his bermuda shorts and a wristwatch and fly off to the sunny islands .
18 Emotions , fears , doubts , are all processed and appear as thoughts which are not under our control .
19 Here , the items of contention in the theories of the state appear as features which can be used to characterize each particular state ; for we need to consider in every instance the extent to which the state is independent of other social spheres , or on the contrary is subordinate to ‘ constellations of interest ’ which themselves have to be specified , and further , the degree to which the state is a repressive agency which dominates society ( and what the sources of that domination are ) , or is rather the executive body of society as a whole .
20 If say for instance one moved headlong down the road to European political union and Westminster ended up with something like the powers of Puddlewick District Council
21 So say for instance there the doctors recommended er a newsagent well a newsagent
22 Well you see now , say tea Say for instance it was a shilling .
23 So say for example you was a tradesman .
24 What it is anyway proposal representation are being sent out if anybody down here you 'll go into England if I voted conservative you know , just say for example it would n't be the one past the post it 'll be the one with the most votes
25 When latecomers appear through doors which slam noisily behind them and creep across the room in front of you , do not try to continue by raising your voice while your audience turn to look at the newcomers .
26 Section 2(3) provides that in considering the common duty of care , the circumstances include the degree of care and want of care which would ordinarily be looked for in such a visitor .
27 Realism about the mental , to speak freely , seems to me essential , and the opposed looking-elsewhere , whatever its roots , a kind of fastidiousness or want of nerve which is futile .
28 You know because we often talk to artists and we ask you know how it happened and and most of them say like topsy it just grew er that that there 's no planned career but with you with the tours er set and the album set it it seems to be more of a controlled career with you two .
29 Therefore , as we descend into Jupiter we encounter no surface , but gradually find ourselves amidst an ocean .
30 During the breakdown of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins in plasma , the C-apoproteins are lost from the particle and associate with HDL which may act as a reservoir for them .
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