Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A human touch was added to Nash 's report : ‘ I could heartily wish more respect were paid to the remains of this amiable though unfortunate Queen , and would willingly , with proper leave , have them wrapt in another sheet of lead and coffin , and decently interred in some proper place , that at least after her death her body might remain in peace ; whereas the Chapel where she now lies is used for the keeping of rabbits , which make holes and scratch very indecently about her Royal corpse . ’ |
| 2 | Some of them appear in this book , but all of them were immeasurably helpful in developing my thoughts . |
| 3 | The Opposition replied , ’ That was 10 years ago ’ , to which my hon. Friend the Member for Teignbridge ( Mr. Nicholls ) , whom I commend for this observation , said , that 10 years was a very long time for the Leader of the Opposition and 10 minutes was about the average length of every policy that he had put forward . |
| 4 | This is the experiment and experience I commend to any business man or industrialist who wants to meet the challenge of the ideological crisis of our times . |
| 5 | It follows that I award for this period of care by the plaintiff 's parents the sum of fifteen thousand pounds which equates to an award of three pounds hourly for five thousand hours . |
| 6 | My dearest love , I chatter about all sorts of odd news , when I really only want to tell you that my real self is in your keeping . |
| 7 | Again , I repeat with this problem of unemployment and so on , and the really obscene level of unemployment in this country at the moment — absolutely shocking I think — and I think the universities have to address themselves to that problem . |
| 8 | I mean for this market research one , we ought to finish this tonight because if she comes tomorrow |
| 9 | That 's what I mean with that Jean you probably wo n't need vitamins . |
| 10 | Well I do n't know about that , I mean with some schools it 'd be a good idea to get them away from it . |
| 11 | I mean with this exhibition that we 've booked ‘ Just the Job ’ , which is black women erm and the kind of jobs that they 've got , a large percentage are carers and erm and it is the thing that erm women feel that they can do and it erm in a way that it comes out of their role in the home , the caring role , and erm and it 's a role that they get sort of erm trapped into and it does n't pay very much money , as Brenda was saying earlier . |
| 12 | Well they were , they were really dependent on , I mean on each other , they were a unit even though they were two families in a way |
| 13 | I mean we 've , I mean at that point you 've got that was the point where you 've got the massive United States aid coming in erm you , you 've got erm United States equipping China with all enormous fire power , sending tanks in etcetera , I mean this was the beginning of , of the realization of the United States that , that the communists were a threat and they did n't like it and they , they were putting massive ai aid erm and , and that there was all that United States war machine erm |
| 14 | I mean at that point I would either do that , you know er change it or that would have been it |
| 15 | I mean at that time say perhaps go in the pub the or the or the , I mean there used to be so many pubs round the er , the dock area then , I mean you take the , and erm then there used to be the erm there was all them pubs round the dock then , noth one or two more but I ca n't re oh the was another one . |
| 16 | Well we were n't anyway there was very few pe , I mean at this time of the year I suppose but there was one place and it said Sunday lunch , there was a sort of black board outside , Sunday lunch erm four pound was it four fifty it was four fifty was n't it ? |
| 17 | Well this is about , I mean at this point it 's about one o'clock in the morning . |
| 18 | Chairman you 've got to allow me because by the time I 've finished you wo n't be able to stop me , er , but I mean if there 's a lot of money floating about in this area then I think that er , some committee or other should be looking at the the refurbishment of the courts in Devizes which are a disgrace , and partly the fault of this council when th they were allowed to get into such a state , and I mean at some stage or other , something or else is gon na to have to happen to them and I would hope that the magistrates in their wisdom in some committee or other are , are deciding to take these courts back into use . |
| 19 | See what I mean about that skirt ? |
| 20 | And yo and your er see what I mean about this area up here , I mean it 's not a bad thingy . |
| 21 | And I mean in that way you might sort of really want to go and look at one of these erm er sort of er rather awful inner city areas . |
| 22 | ‘ Those trees were superb ; there was drama in each figure I was going to say , but I mean in each tree … . |
| 23 | Certain ones of them , for instance the Brazilians may not be taking an awful lot of notice , or may not apparently be taking an awful lot of notice at the moment , but I think the pressure is on , and that things are changing , and more and more countries are going towards policies that will in fact support , sustained yield production and timber from the forests , and the reservation of the forests for that purpose , erm I mean in many countries have a policy where they just let tribal institutes use the raw material , and the forest is not reserved , and it 's not looked after . |
| 24 | I mean it 's , I mean er , we still consider , I mean in many ways it 's , it 's Breckland but particularly Norfolk we want to particularly their members we want to get , we want to get to , I mean er , you 'll need obviously great support authority District Council but er , er I will , I will consider that , but I do n't really think it 's necessary for that |
| 25 | I mean in any case ten minutes . |
| 26 | I mean in some cases be left with the ward sister and I think in general that 's who they will nominate . |
| 27 | Mm I du n no what we get asked to do you know , I mean in some cases we can handle everything like pulling out bloody cables after other receive in that kind of thing |
| 28 | and i it was n't in all areas that the came back , I mean in some areas there was enough security but you would n't know which area was going to be secure . |
| 29 | I mean in some ways |
| 30 | I , I mean in some respects this , this , this is very good Mary . |