Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I take over the wheel and we lose them , the whole shooting match . ’ |
| 2 | Out there is a whole world full of garbage and it gives me ulcers to throw one more shred of scum back on the heap . ’ |
| 3 | She said no , she said , he told her if she wanted to go to the expense of a wig , she could get a wig and she wear it when she went out , but when she comes in the house she must take it off , she must not wear that wig |
| 4 | There was a small gap in the fence that was unaffected by the pile-up and we approached it at a forty-five degree angle . |
| 5 | and went to Nursery Nurses ' Association and they suggested I took charge of an evacuee centre for children . |
| 6 | yo you know if we had problems we 'd each talk to them and we had of course , we had , we formed a resident association and we took our problems to the resident 's association and and we wo , you know , if we had problems which could be ironed out the man , general manager of the development corporation , Mr would come and listen to our complaints and we seemed , you know , we we got along very very well really for such a small place with nothing because the only shopping facilities were in the old town or we had to go to Epping or Bishop 's Stortford you see ? |
| 7 | You are Secretary of the Magistrates Association and you have something like twenty five thousand members out of a total of something like twenty seven thousand Magistrates . |
| 8 | Very pleased to have yours and as I said in my last it 's your money , God has been very kind to you and you must n't fly up in the face of his kindness and I wish you had not taken this step , your Uncle Steve says property 's more trouble than it 's worth . |
| 9 | My concern that this might be a common fault was raised when I quoted the part number to my local Genuine Parts dealer who not only instantly recognised it , but knew how many were in stock and which bin they were stored in — and all without consulting the stores computer . |
| 10 | Somebody give us a card and we sent it away and we got a |
| 11 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 12 | To , to make people feel sorry for them and they have no shame at all in breaking limbs and distorting their features and all so that kind to make themselves look as pitiful as they possible can because they 're going to live a life of a beggar and they tell us it 's very profitable being a beggar in some lands , people can make in this country they reckon up to in places like London a hundred pounds a day being a beggar that 's more than you earn a day is n't it ? |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a good partnership and we think it 's going to get better . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a good partnership and we think it 's going to get better . |
| 15 | One gave her a gold ring and one gave her a little dog . |
| 16 | It 's her ring and I bought her that scarf . ’ |
| 17 | And now he was passing a second and more dilapidated pillbox and it struck him that the whole headland had the desolate look of an old battlefield , the corpses long since carted away but the air vibrating still with the gunfire of long-lost battles , while the power station loomed over it like a grandiose modern monument to the unknown dead . |
| 18 | What you 've got , you 've got your customer we 've got your menu feedback and you got your products . |
| 19 | We knocked them out of their rhythm and never allowed them to settle or sustain any momentum and I felt their frustrations were beginning to surface . |
| 20 | Asked by police what had happened , Mr Graham said : ‘ He attacked me with a hammer and I stabbed him . ’ |
| 21 | And the Chief said that does n't compare he said that does not concur with a visit I had last night in Glasgow whilst asleep when he awoke to a gleaming light at his bedroom and he said who are you and this figure said I am God and the Chief Fire Officer said well God , all I want to know is one thing , will I get my southern fire station ? |
| 22 | I stumbled into the bedroom and he followed me in . |
| 23 | As with the girl who died earlier in the year , this beaker of solution was in her bedroom and she mistook it for a bedtime drink . |
| 24 | On Sunday , all afternoon it 's flipping football and it drives me crazy ! |
| 25 | When I left school I would n't go on with me dad at first , I said I wanted to play football and me dad did n't want me to play football and he said you ca n't do a milkround and play football . |
| 26 | ‘ I like the physical aspect of British football and I feel my game is suited to the Premier League . ’ |
| 27 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |
| 28 | At that time we can respond by the greatest amount and at the greatest speed and we perceive it as being least difficult . |
| 29 | Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth . |
| 30 | And of course he goes in and the horse drops in the far side of the wee barn , and er Old goes in with his dram and he dips it into the horse trough you ken , and he turns you ken with his regimental , |