Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they get paid , they say about used to , used to be seven and six pence , something like that , but er course today that 's different altogether . |
| 2 | Because the father is the model for the superego and the actual embodiment of authority and the demands of the cultural prohibitions against incest and parricide within the individual 's own family , it is perhaps not surprising that the antagonism towards him and what he stands for need not be limited to such self-evidently anti-social and aggressive tendencies as those revealed in the statistics of crime and violence . |
| 3 | Thank you Mr say for shall I put the er , Mr 's amendment to erm to the late resolution . |
| 4 | A relatively old rug that has been well looked after may be in far better condition than a newer item that has seen less considerate use , and some contemporary items are deliberately made to look old by the use of chemical washes ( p. 27 ) . |
| 5 | Er put up there , you would n't know of would you ? |
| 6 | Those that you think are worth persevering with can be grown on for another year , getting a second chance to bloom . |
| 7 | The account should have the login flags CAPTIVE , DISCTLY and DEFCLI set , and the command procedure which it logs into should only give the account read access by virtue of the SYSPRV privilege ( so that the user can not edit the command procedure after executing the break-out ) . |
| 8 | Is your watch programmed into should automatically |
| 9 | ‘ The guys I would like to work with would be Mel Gibson or Michael Hutchence from the Australian band INXS . |
| 10 | If this rule is not complied with , the issuer is guilty of an offence , any subsequent contract etc entered into may be unenforceable and the issuer of the advertisement may face criminal charges and/or fines . |
| 11 | That the classical doctrine of the trinity has in this manner been departed from may be thought to be of no small consequence . |
| 12 | He said a letter sent to competitors informing them of the restriction and threatening possible exclusion of wheelchairs from future London marathons if the rule was not adhered to should not have been sent . |
| 13 | Oh , they will have to if they want to wo n't they ? |
| 14 | The first thing to realise is that anyone who comes to visit you because they want to will not care — and probably will not notice — if your home is not perfect . |
| 15 | The court said that the conclusion the arbitrator had come to could only have been reached by in effect giving evidence to himself in flat contradiction to the evidence given by the applicants ' expert witness , and the arbitrator was guilty of misconduct in failing to observe the rules of natural justice . |
| 16 | The events they referred to can be verified from other sources : the battles of Kawz and Hawaria also appear in Graziani 's work , for example , and are thus authenticated ( Graziani , 1932 ) . |
| 17 | Opening a brewery at a time when Britain 's drinkers are supping less beer than they used to might not seem like a good idea . |
| 18 | Any man who wants to can go ashore for the afternoon . |
| 19 | Erm , indeed some eighty ninety year olds do n't need any supervision , on the other hand some people in their early sixties may need to be looked after , and , you know , I do n't fancy the idea of anybody being able to claim allowances because they 've fit granny , erm , on the other hand anybody who needs to ought to be able to , and I think this wording secures that . |
| 20 | I ca n't , I ca n't wait till ca n't wait till Christmas cos I do n't stop eating . |
| 21 | The parts that are being looked at may be very different but there is a uniformity about the emotion generated . |
| 22 | Now , could argue that Greater York could be bigger or smaller , the local government commission , erm er there report is a very interesting read , I mean a number of the options that they 've looked at would be a gra er a city of York going out to the ring road , erm that might be one option , there 's a there there idea of of Greater York , they did harden , they did see some merit in in a Greater York unitary authority based on the Greater York planning study I think , erm whether that is going to come to pass only Mr Gummer presumably er knows , so my idea of Greater York is that it 's an area which is tied socially and economically to the city , you could argue as mobility increases , as the A ni nineteen is improved up through the County that really Northallerton now is perhaps more within the sphere of influence of York than it was ten years ago , erm e it was probably to a degree influenced by York even twenty years ago , erm I do n't think er there is much to be gained by debating where Greater York ought to be , the Secretary of State previously has n't been bothered about er amending it er it seems to us to be the reasonable area , and it 's a combination of five districts , erm erm erm who who who hopefully should be working together towards sorting out the er other problems of Greater York . |
| 23 | The packages I 've looked at should , in different degrees , allow you to draw or paint as naturally as possible with a mouse . |
| 24 | The only other regular vehicles to come by would be cement lorries , large yellow giants driven by steam which , as darkness fell , you could see coming with the fire boxes aglow . |
| 25 | Television sets were rare and people watched in groups ; in the oases of the south it was customary to watch television out of doors in the cool of the summer evening , where any person who happened to pass by could sprawl on the sand . |
| 26 | The last thing it would think of would be working . |
| 27 | The only one I could think of would be Robert er , cos he 's sort a erm , he 's a bit of a broguey sort a |
| 28 | Every subject I could think of could be painful to her and in any case would be hard to sustain as a monologue . |
| 29 | Every shop had its errand-boy , and meat , fish , green , grocery and almost any commodity you can think of could be delivered to the door . |
| 30 | One might think at first blush that a passing reference to a person that all your readers will have heard of would serve to authenticate your story . |