Example sentences of "[verb] and [pron] [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The discourtesy shown to me , down to the last detail … was not expected and I profoundly resent it , ’ he wrote to his brother after a visit to the new Prime Minister at Chequers . |
| 2 | ‘ This case has certainly not been forgotten and we still want to hear from anyone with information . |
| 3 | Besides , the sorts of holidays Rose and I usually go on would n't have been up-market enough for George . ’ |
| 4 | On having ideals , like as you grow older , I mean you 're quite an ancient person already , within the next ten years you 'll have to choose the sort of lifestyle you want and you really have to choose as well whether you 're going to involve other people in it for good or for |
| 5 | You know you 're allowed to go up to nine percent as you say and you just pay as many years as you like . |
| 6 | Spence , the 29-year-old Kent player , said : ‘ Some of the pin positions were difficult but all the greens are sloping and you just have to accept them . |
| 7 | But I was gon na tell you about there was one day I was at for money and I 'm coming up the road , and here this chap was standing in the road and er kind of thumbing a lift , so I says to him , I stopped and I often lift people in the road but er after he got into the , I had an old Bradford van at the time , and he said er , I said to him , I says , are you on a hiking holiday ? |
| 8 | Unfortunately the outstanding differences have not been resolved and we still have no date for talks . ’ |
| 9 | Elsewhere the band choose what can only be called a hardcore bubblegum sound and by the time you get to the final furlong , this regularity means the fizz is starting to fade and you dearly want the guitars to twist and shout and sing . |
| 10 | First , I was a gypsy and gypsies never forget and they never forgive . |
| 11 | Suppose your boss asks you for suggestions about how a particular problem could be solved and you immediately respond with some ideas . |
| 12 | Behind him , behind the last of the houses , the ancient terraces , which his forebears have shaped and which now shape this community , rise up steeply to the rock escarpment dominating this side of the island . |
| 13 | I look at r.s.s. every Saturday from about noon local time ( 5.00 pm Leeds time ) in the hope of getting the results asap and I normally have to wait for ages until info arrives . |
| 14 | ‘ I have n't a clue why you behave in the way you appear to behave and I honestly do n't give a damn … ’ |
| 15 | A lot of them letters that come out are already done and you just delete |
| 16 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
| 17 | They always , they always lag as you know , our , our , we always underspend capital in the first half against what our division think they 're gon na do and they always think they 're gon na catch it up in the second half , they never do but erm , it wo n't be , you know , it wo n't be materially different . |
| 18 | Erm , to congratulate you firstly on the level of settlements that have been achieved in the extracting and building conc building products division erm secondly , on , on one six seven the refused to make an offer and , er , if you could perhaps update us as to what , er method we 're gon na approach employers now , erm , to , to secure settlements in that industry er , we think it was deplorable that no offer was made and we also think it was deplorable that E C C Building Products decided to say that even if an offer had been made , they would n't have been prepared to implement it . |
| 19 | She said : ‘ I ca n't believe this ruling has been made and I just do n't know what more I can do . |
| 20 | You see , we 've got that board made and you just have n't played with your Lego much since have you ? |
| 21 | We got on well from the moment we met and we still see each other from time to time , and talk for hours about the good old days . |
| 22 | Well it 's , it 's more like more or less just like today , you know , if you , if you 've got nowhere to go and they just put you there , but I mean now you ca n't get in very good can you really , not now , but erm , Pat since she 's been on duty she 's had a terrible trial , terrible she had to get one , help in this morning , get one of the floor next door , then we 've had trouble one down further , but she 's been put into erm Ashlyn now for five weeks , so she 's out the way for a little while we 've had an awful worrying time here though , it 's absolutely been a pantomime cos this has just keeps er throwing herself on the floor , all the time she 's doing it |
| 23 | There may be occasions when a payment you are expecting is delayed and you suddenly need funds to cover the resultant cash shortage . |
| 24 | You may have noticed over the last three slides that several of sites have had a zero er percentage registered and we certainly feel that in a couple of these sites this was probably due to poor note-keeping rather than a percentage . |
| 25 | if it was n't completed and we still bring it in can we write it down or ? |
| 26 | Ideally , of course , the best support for any kind of camera is to mount it on a tripod , but tripods are awkward things to carry and they also have a dampening effect on spontaneity . |
| 27 | I still , I s it 's still swollen and I still have n't got my full grip , I 'm seeing the surgeon again today |
| 28 | The patrol boat , on loan to the council from the police , is now crewed by Vandaline workers who have been specially trained in boathandling and who also have passed swimming tests and been briefed on river byelaws and enforcement . |
| 29 | These guys seem to think all speed limits are there to be broken and they just do n't believe they will ever be caught . ’ |
| 30 | If women try to play this particular role within worship , this visual link with Jesus is broken and we easily sink into thinking of him as only vaguely human , as a nice idea in our minds that we can mould as we will . |