Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [coord] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she did not forget ‘ sitting on me grandad 's rocking chair combing his hair and I can always remember him sat there and me stood up behind him : I 'd comb his hair for hours and he just sat there and let me . ’ |
| 2 | you could sit and play with your teddies for ages and you never complained . ’ |
| 3 | That if you work in the big city you might only have seven miles between calls but it still takes you three quarters of an hour . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've been refusing that man a cheque book for months but he just went inside and someone from senior management , who has n't been behind a counter for years , just hands one over without a thought . ’ |
| 5 | He was my room-mate in the days when your school was used as a sort of summer camp for magicians and he actually did disappear one day and we all thought he must have gone home . |
| 6 | All this may be done for the best of reasons but it only ensures that children bottle up their feelings as well as their tears , which , as we have seen in previous chapters , can have far-reaching effects . |
| 7 | ‘ Our backs were disappointing in some respects against Monaghan , ’ he chides , ‘ We gave away two goals within a couple of minutes and you simply can not do that and expect to win championship matches — it 's not just on . ’ |
| 8 | Oh they used to be ever so funny houses you know and in them days and The er you never used to see in the oh a lot of houses and you never used to see big windows like these . |
| 9 | There needs to be a long term education of cyclists and I sincerely apologise to those walkers who have had any bad experiences . |
| 10 | Previously we estimated that our data request omitted 6.5% of cases and we now add a further 6.1% who may have been lost because of inadequate records . |
| 11 | Mrs Bradshaw had met my mother a couple of times and they plainly approved of each other . |
| 12 | I 've heard this film , seen this film quite a number of times and it really is good . |
| 13 | There was no colour bar , because normal rules are applied for the selection of recruits and it just happens that black and Asian people fall the tests . |
| 14 | Yeah and especially on the fractions and the different types of fractions but you just find o found out what makes ninety have n't you ? |
| 15 | ‘ You can get them in Helsinki now , but at that time … anyway I had only been in New York for a couple of days and I only had the clothes I had taken with me . |
| 16 | So they , they welcomed the idea of a separation of powers but they also insisted on another principle , probably the most important principle of American government , and that is the principle of federalism . |
| 17 | Children in the United Kingdom face different sorts of problems but they too are under threat . |
| 18 | But , in the aggregate , they are unable to increase their holdings of bonds and they only succeed in driving up the price of bonds . |
| 19 | His deafness cut him off from a lot of things but he never told us to speak up and would sit at family meals with a benign expression on his face while we chattered away . |
| 20 | ‘ I tell yer lots of things but you never even listen . |
| 21 | erm so no certainly they asked me about it and so on but I think that rather like their food forum they might like to get a communications forum going erm because they 've been thinking about having a Business Club and various other things because they 're involved with the Management Programme and all sorts of things and they maybe going to do some training for heads and people like that |
| 22 | ‘ I think it started her interest in a lot of things and I positively encouraged her later on to explore other things , ’ says Penny . |
| 23 | but that 's no problem for me , it used to be a problem but it is n't now because I 've worked on building up my confidence in other things so I 'm good at quite a lot of things and I always keep re-enforcing that that I 'm good at doing these things . |
| 24 | Well tha , that was very rude to come fucking , a lot of things and he just say |
| 25 | Before 1970 it was largely left to the Weights and Measures Departments of local authorities to enforce those statutes which gave protection to the consumer of goods and they often took the view that they had no competence to deal with complaints which did not indicate a possible breach of the criminal law . |
| 26 | There was never any danger of that , because I 'm terrified of needles and I never wanted to make drugs my life 's work . |
| 27 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 28 | But there were loads of spaces and I also happen to know that if you do n't stay long the hotel management does n't mind . ’ |
| 29 | They have loads of fillings and you just choose what you want and there was curried chicken , prawns , could have salad with them or you could have a baked potato with your own filling , I had a baked potato with tuna fish and coleslaw , coleslaw was made with mayonnaise , it was gorgeous . |
| 30 | I mean it 's good for them learning to be amongst a lot of children and they soon learn that erm they ca n't have their way . |