Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A solicitor will tell you whether you have a case and what your chances of succeeding in any claim might be ; he or she will advise you where — Court or Tribunal — and will explain the procedure and steps to be taken throughout , and will represent you in negotiations with your employer if you wish . |
| 2 | It irritated me a bit because what it what it was saying |
| 3 | Oh only a bit cos I I 've got ta cut David 's hair tonight . |
| 4 | Ah , but you 're a winner when I I 'm alright now . |
| 5 | I mean what you 're looking for is a reduction or what you would have liked to have seen a reduction in the land allocation for employment needs , and yet in the other breath you are saying to North Yorkshire , you should really cater for one hundred percent migration . |
| 6 | I I 'm certainly not My Lords er un er er an unqualified admirer of all our procedures in local Government , but I do believe that before central Government is further down the road of , of erm usurping functions which are now those of local government it has to persuade a large number of people that its own performance justifies such a course and myself I do n't believe it does . |
| 7 | Essentially this is a matter of love for the total cosmic reality of which we are a part as something whose magnificence transcends our own puny being , and gratitude to it for having brought us forth in the heart of it . |
| 8 | None of us had any idea what observation meant , but we had to write down a sentence or something we had noticed on our way to school . |
| 9 | Granted the potential meaning of to postulated above , these two general categories provide a clear illustration of Guillaume 's principle ( 1984 : 134 – 5 ) that actualizing a potential meaning is an operation of thought which takes place while the speaker is mentally constructing a sentence and which he intercepts when he has found the representation which he feels as adequate for what he wants to express . |
| 10 | Judith Masterman , whose daughter Alison works in the orphanage , said : ‘ We are not aiming to provide everyone with a mattress but whatever we can get helps . |
| 11 | He has , therefore , to know in his own mind how much power he can harness into a technique and what he is capable of . |
| 12 | lost something and I ca n't , I ca n't find it and I 'm looking and I 'm , and ee , and er , a bit of a noise or anything I 'm looking backwards is coming and then I realize he 's not there any more to come and then other days I just feel like I 'm dangling in the air and can see the , the ground and I ca n't touch it with my feet , just somewhere right , right out , it 's not real , not real you know and then you go , you get back to with a bump and know that it 's real and then it just feels left , nothing else , you ca n't help yourself in any other way . |
| 13 | When I went in for medicine I had the feeling that maybe I would take out an appendix on the kitchen table … now this has been a big disappointment of my life as a GP that whatever I can do , there 's someone else who can do much , much better . |
| 14 | If something is wrong with a bedroom or whatever they will come to us . |
| 15 | For while an objective attitude carries with it a certain distance , and a recognition that what we think of as natural responses such as gratitude or resentment are out of place , reactive attitudes confirm our beliefs about the expectations people have of one another in society . |
| 16 | Fishermen would never go out in a boat if anyone who could swim was on board , since the Fates might decide to give the man a chance to do so . |
| 17 | Rob Andrew had a quiet game , which is meant as a compliment because whatever he did was done efficiently and without fuss , whilst he always took the right option . |
| 18 | What he does have , though , is a fearsome grip on the band which looks to me like a dictatorship and which he maintains is just the way things have worked out . |
| 19 | A product where the dosage must be finely calculated arithmetically from the instruction data provided to arrive at the quantity of product needed required more thought and more decisions than a product dispensed semi-automatically via a dispenser or one which is supplied ready for use . |
| 20 | Er there was a lady fell over about two months ago on that footpath just at the beginning of the winter , and the cathedral council offered to pay for the installation of a light and what we did we contributed seventy seven pounds which is sixty including V A T to enable a second light to be installed because of the two steps on that footpath , one at each end , erm |
| 21 | Mealtimes provide natural variation in a programme and what you are going to offer will depend on the programme , the venue 's facilities , the season , the numbers and your budget . |
| 22 | I was more of a hooligan than what they were used to , ’ Bailey snorts . |
| 23 | She must be a musician or one who loved music . |
| 24 | And amongst neighbours , an executive found guilty of corporate crime continues to be regarded as ‘ upright and steadfast ; indeed , they will probably see him as solid and substantial a citizen as they themselves are ’ ( Geis 1978 : 283 ) . |
| 25 | Cos if I sing , when I 'm doing my homework if I sing along to a tape or something I start writing the words down . |
| 26 | Under the Adoption Act 1976 , a marriage between a child and one who has once adopted it is prohibited , but not a marriage between the adoptee and one of the adopter 's own children . |
| 27 | I led her upstairs , took off her wet clothes , bathed and dried her ; she accepting my ministrations automatically , as if she were a child and I her mother . |
| 28 | So he 'd been to the doctors about few weeks ago and he 'd been repairing his shed , said there was water coming in and he went to he said oh you 've pulled a ligament or something he said , it 'll take weeks for it to clear up but anyhow he went back again about a fortnight ago . |
| 29 | I go about in a wheelchair and someone who pushes it very often goes into a shop and says , ‘ Look here , you have bought rather a lot of things I think you had better give a cheque for them — now I ? I write the cheque out , dear , and you shall sign it . ’ |
| 30 | Ah sorry yeah so the fif the the five percent or the fifteen point seven and a half or whatever it is |