Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | on about and I suspect that Councillor must be on about . |
| 2 | As she said , ‘ The audience did n't know what the f — we were on about and it went on for simply ages , but Ken could be very indulgent with that sort of manic streak . ’ |
| 3 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 4 | and she , he , she goes down to the abortion centre right after and he dies ! |
| 5 | And she was coming back along towards and she comes all along the dual carriageway and this car in front of her |
| 6 | The nine , well you go down into and you get a bus go wherever it dropped you and then half a mile , mind you that 's gon na cost you about fifty P |
| 7 | Last night , Ena Gilmour , Raymond Gilmour 's mother , of Hawthorn Avenue , Johnstone , said : ‘ I will allow myself to be slightly optimistic , I do n't put it any stronger than that because I have been let down before and I do n't want to let myself go too far this time . ’ |
| 8 | he could get social security but here they closed the social security bit down in and he 'd nowhere so he came up here , oh he 'd stayed here many time previous to that . |
| 9 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 10 | I saw clouds passing swiftly by and I sensed my own movement in another time and space . |
| 11 | only other one he 's got is a silk one so er I was gon na go on Tuesday and have a look and they had them there before Christmas , seven ninety nine and , but it said one size now I do n't know whether the one size will fit Di because the last one I had for him I sent away for and I had erm so I do n't know whether them down there would fit , they were seven ninety nine , there were white and lemon and pale green that was striped I think . |
| 12 | And , and well I remember once there were a whi a few of the men went away to and they got over the stick , you understand what that means ? |
| 13 | Erm the the railway track , erm once it was extended through to and I say I 'll give you the details on that in a minute , erm went over the er Road , and then the track that was nearest to er the town , was curved in and joined that other line erm and er went off to . |
| 14 | what I 've tried to do is not to and we 've had the money , is to buy one in each set cos we have n't got the money to buy full sets , thirty books is a joke ! |
| 15 | ‘ I begged him not to and he stopped . ’ |
| 16 | the money he 's on like and he comes |
| 17 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 18 | I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh . |
| 19 | It goes up and straight down l and you ca n't stay up erm in the water , you go straight under and you do n't find yourself in the middle erm of the pool where it actually comes in you find yourself being pressed against the wall by the water pressure |
| 20 | Well , I know what you 're up to and I 've tumbled to Janice . |
| 21 | I know damn well what you 're up to and I do n't like it . |
| 22 | I did n't know what he was up to and I guess I did n't care . |
| 23 | This man came up to and he heard this chains . |
| 24 | So I asked him what he was up to and he said he was going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it , and then he pushed th " trolley in , and I went in after , and the mother began her howling and shrieking , and Will said , " Well , I 'll walk off and leave you to it . " |
| 25 | No she came up to and she said can I sit on the end of the table . |
| 26 | And she used to love taking a new ten shilling note out of and I 've saved this for holiday . |
| 27 | But two cars took her out against and they believe that she 's gone to the airport and they did n't know where where she was excised . |
| 28 | she phoned up Ben about Caroline going out with and she goes erm , she goes erm Ben does Lewis like Jessica ? |
| 29 | Oh yeah I mean they were good company to go out with and I said to you at dinner time and then since they 've joined us , so we was all the same |
| 30 | So , this tiler were there with that you know , I says well why , you know and er I went back in and I turned the fire off altogether |