Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't fall over the wheel and she did pass her test . |
| 2 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 3 | Rona and he had taken a few round one afternoon , drinking endless cups of tea and listening to platitudes ; a pattern of conversation with all the formality of a dance , first the weather , and then naive politics of the cost of living . |
| 4 | He has done a lot of thinking and he has concluded the labour party is finished for him and I think a lot more people will do the same . |
| 5 | A lot of things that I 'd still do here if , if I could whip up some enthusiasm if my husband would , I ca n't , he was a bricklayer , sub contractor and they have knocked this kitchen out about three times since they 've been there , and the last , this last effort , I think they 've put imitation beams in , I have n't seen it , but we think they have and er , oh it 's , you would n't know it 's the same house at all , you would n't know it |
| 6 | ’ Even if a car is n't in stock and we have to wait for it to be built , we can generally hold the agreed price . ’ |
| 7 | I am buying a £110,000 house with my girlfriend and we plan to take out an endowment to cover the £100,000 mortgaged sum . |
| 8 | ‘ My girlfriend and I have talked about sex seriously , ’ says Steven , who is planning to go to college to study mechanics . |
| 9 | Design manager Ian Cheetham , 30 , said calmly : ‘ It was no big deal and we had to get to a very important meeting with clients . ’ |
| 10 | The Government says the dentists are treating too many patients under a new productivity deal and it plans to cut back on payments by an average of £6,000 to each practitioner . |
| 11 | The Government says the dentists are treating too many patients under a new productivity deal and it plans to cut back on payments by an average of £6,000 to each practitioner . |
| 12 | That 's the one for me because it 's so raunchy sounding and it 's got a real grit to it that I think is just fantastic . |
| 13 | She said we did a an experiment and we tried to perm a girl 's hair with Head and Shoulders |
| 14 | If we are going to deliver to the people to whom we as elected members owe the highest duty , that 's the people who are in receipt of our services the sort of quality service that we , that they deserve then I have to say that we can have as many reports of this nature as we like , but you have got to acknowledge the need to change and you have got to stop resenting the rights of parents and governors to run schools , you 've got to stop being obstructive to competitive tendering and you have got to stop arguing for the retention of services where it 's patently obvious that there 's over provision . |
| 15 | I remember my doctor coming in my kitchen some time ago ( he 's a good friend and a gastronome and he wanted to learn ) . |
| 16 | Japanese , it 's a massive one , one er , it 's a thirty thousand gallon erm pond and it 's got , and it goes through a filter box and it 's four and a half tons of erm four and a half tons and that is a lot of |
| 17 | The wedding ring was n't cut off , it was only the engagement ring and we 've sold that . |
| 18 | If you were on one side of the inside edge of the ring and you wanted to get to a point on the other side , you would have to go round the inner edge of the ring . |
| 19 | This a times course of jumps in a ring and you have to go as fast as you can . |
| 20 | The underground economy in every socialist state , however , has always been resolutely capitalist , and so my friend Kurowski and I have come here tonight to find out how the world 's oldest profession is adjusting to the new economic realities . |
| 21 | and , and after it I 've got erm a digger and I 've got daddy tools , what tools do you want ? , |
| 22 | My father , Sir Tom , was the second most famous man of the British stage , of any stage for that matter ; a towering and famous figure , one of the great actors of all time , who accepted the adulation as his due and who had expected me , like the rest of his children , to follow in his footsteps . |
| 23 | Jitka turned and put her fingers to her lips as they came to the main bedroom and they tiptoed passed . |
| 24 | Usually I start in my bedroom and I like to get to the top of the stairs by the baby 's lunchtime , and then I stop and give them lunch and then I carry on and get on quite well . |
| 25 | We do enjoy our football and we enjoy winning . |
| 26 | For instance , there 's one where two girls watch their brothers playing football and one 's got a bucket on his head . |
| 27 | ‘ I play football and I like watching it . |
| 28 | It is also a moment of generalisation for the twenty-one-year-old second mate who on this voyage from Australia , carrying grain and bent on winning the famous gain-race , had had to contend with an arrogant and hostile captain and who had cast off his boat , after a collision in the dark had given a mortal blow to the Blackgauntlet and he had waited in vain for orders . |
| 29 | However , at £75 million it was a very substantial investment and we had to open . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Players like Alan Shearer are a good investment and he 's brought him on . ’ |