Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [indef pn] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Or if the ground was kind of wet we used to er make slide then and skate along on it and if the ground got dry we would get a old bucket or something and run round to the tap at the tank at the back of the school and get a a lot of water wet till you could slip on it .
2 You used to go up with a with a sack or something and gather the chickweed er out of the tattie and neep .
3 It must have been chasing a squirrel or something and fell into the hollow and could not get out again . ’
4 Did they fail in their exams or something or went to drink or .
5 The thing to do is is to sort of er plot to overthrow parliament or something and see if there 's any reaction !
6 Mind , must of re-done those toilets or something cos look they 've even got a disabled
7 eh brutal , er brute , er so many er only got a little bit more , eh sort of like you 've got er , I du n no , accent or something or add to it a few words , a few letters I mean , er a more I , a different accent you go to Manchester they said er different accent you go and so different one and to me from the beginning , not now , but from the beginning I was fascinate , I says why do they finish in Italian er ways , or add , you switch and them coins , erm , it still says
8 If your business creates flyers , brochures , catalogues , price lists or anything that involves the combination of text , graphics , illustrations and even photographs into a single document you will need page makeup software .
9 But there 's a chance that while he was searching , he found some letters or a photograph or something that tied you in with Mahoney .
10 that 's got asthma , and he often goes into or dia he 's a ba diabetic or summat and goes into comas .
11 Better a steady flame than one that flares up and burns itself out . ’
12 Is my hon. Friend aware that the Member representing Battersea has kept in regular touch with English Heritage , from which he has received confirmation that everything that needs to be done to protect that building has been done ?
13 Says Marcus Phipps , co-ordinator of the Orangutan Foundation 's Taiwan office : ‘ It 's a tragedy that something that began with such joy and expectation has ended so miserably . ’
14 There is utter and total confusion and anything that stands still they used to say they would paint it in industry they now say market test it and they do admit to us that the end object does not necessarily mean complete contractorization or privatization , but at this particular moment in time
15 This is a new market for hygiene and one that has significant potential for the future with increasing demands being made in safety and hygiene .
16 cos you did n't have to pay tax cos you 're a non-taxpayer and everybody that went to a building society got it taxed .
17 Formal , and informal , taboos around menstruation to some extent continued , but the ritual of male circumcision was abandoned — a fascinating development given the significance and purpose of the ritual and one that looks , at first glance , like a clean break with the past to facilitate the future and the expansion of Christianity ( see , for example , Acts 10–11 , 15 ; Romans 4 ; Gal.
18 You may now have the chance of finding a sexual experience that involves not only the taking and/or giving of pleasure but one that involves you in " sharing the experience of pleasure " in a meaningful way for both of you .
19 Magic swords are a good investment because anything that improves your hand-to-hand fighting abilities is a good idea .
20 And they 've got this doberman or something that barks all the time like , and it 's allowed i in the garden and it sits in the garden all the time and all the rest of it !
21 His son , Mark , trained as an osteopath or something and set up in practice here .
22 If er , scientists and his team works on a , or think they are on to a discovery or something that needs researching , can get , the necessary funding , office , or firms that they benefit , say this in the previous paragraph , that 's fine , but to concentrate on topics which are I do n't think that happens .
23 A horse that has had no exercise all day is less likely to stand still for the farrier than one that has just been ridden ; and a youngster that has never been ridden out on the road before will be considerably more nervous if it goes alone than it would with a companion .
24 It seems to me that whatever else was on the menu at County Hall last night , the dinner was principally a buttering-up exercise and one that ill-befits a county which struggled to make savings in the education budget earlier this year .
25 Until then , he had been sure of his memories , certain that he could not have forgotten his parents and everything that had happened to him and reinvented the whole of his life before he woke in the attic .
26 A second international trend present in the election and one that needs to be recognised as a global , not uniquely British , phenomenon is the decline of clear , ideologically based , alternatives to right-wing capitalism , a crisis of the social-democratic model that , far from being reversed by the disappearance of authoritarian socialism in the east , has been accentuated by it .
27 But the Department of Transport says it 's important to ban the plates because simply having them on the car , changes the driver 's behaviour and the idea is that speed is always a danger on our roads and anything that contributes to safety is to be encouraged .
28 If we begin with too cavalier an attitude toward them , we may miss a certain richness in our intellectual heritage and one that had a profound bearing on how the word science was understood , by both practitioners and their public .
29 They did not have to suffer a very low-calorie diet or one that involved eating expensive and unusual foods .
30 But we just you know like Saturday night we really enjoy making a nice meal and having a nice bottle of wine or something and doing something
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