Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [indef pn] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exactly thirty minutes later , Shannon packed the last two brushes into an already crammed hold-all and glanced quickly round the small room , checking for anything she might have missed first time round . |
| 2 | • If you do n't know of anyone you could share a job with , try approaching employment agencies who might be able to match you up with someone . |
| 3 | And if I had n't met the people I 've met , I think I 'd 've been a very frustrated person cos erm , even though you can think of something , un unless , if you have other people you can go , if you say to somebody you could say , oh God , you know let's do this and this and this , or I think , really think this or this and someone else goes yes I do |
| 4 | ‘ Bith , Culdub , ca n't you think of something we can do ? |
| 5 | I wish you 'd think of something you would like for your birthday . |
| 6 | I wish you would think of something you would like for your birthday |
| 7 | you know , can you think of one you might 've had last night or one that you particularly remember or something like that |
| 8 | But ca n't you think of anything I can give you ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Personally , I ca n't think of anything I 'd like more than to have you as a brother-in-law . ’ |
| 10 | Erm he , he then obviously goes on to erm to erm talk about peasant bans and prohibitions erm and for some incredible reason the peasants suddenly take a disliking to gaming , gambling and opium smoking , three things that I could n't think of anything I 'd like to do more , erm |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't think of anything I 'd loathe more ! ’ |
| 12 | Susan could n't think of anything she 'd like to do less , but she would support Maggie . |
| 13 | And a witness told how he had seen looters running through evacuated apartments hunting for anything they could carry away . |
| 14 | ‘ When you want to talk about anything you 'll know where to find me . ’ |
| 15 | The man who had severed his traditional local ties to live in the impersonal and anonymous city searched for something he could identify with , for new loyalties and attachments . |
| 16 | The suspect may also be searched for anything he could use to effect his escape and for evidence relating to any offence if there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that the items are in the suspect 's possession . |
| 17 | Even then we would play it a bit too close and find that some unforeseen emergency would send us scrambling around looking for something we could sell to avoid starvation . |
| 18 | He was thumbing through USA Today for the umpteenth time , looking for something he might have missed , when he heard her giggling . |
| 19 | If you are on edge , perhaps you are being pushed into something you might regret . |
| 20 | Thus , though more than 20 per cent of people are in fact likely to use mail order , it is very unlikely that mail order would ever occur to more than 20 per cent of people as a potential source of credit when they were ( say ) standing in front of a shop window looking at something they would like to buy . |
| 21 | His explanation is simple : ‘ Of course , I could have done better , but I enjoy the friendship of running and would never run past someone I could help get to the finish , even if I could win the race . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I would never run past someone I could help get to the finish , even if I could win the race ’ |
| 23 | It must sound like something you would say spontaneously . |
| 24 | By day it 's very much a ‘ let's get a sunlounger and lie on the sand ’ sort of resort and the sandy beach is well equipped with everything you 'll need in the way of bars , restaurants and shade , and there are several places to waterski , windsurf and parascend or try your hand on the wet bikes . |
| 25 | Faced with this , Amy had seemed to abandon her frivolous society friends — or had been abandoned by them — and turned to someone she could trust . |
| 26 | There are other people who only work by consensus , but once they 've agreed to something they 'll do it very effectively . |
| 27 | If he exaggerated at all , it was in supposing that anything I might say mattered all that much . |
| 28 | When the pain came I twisted away from it and clutched at anything I could get hold of , and swore . |
| 29 | So if you want to get rid of somebody you can go and tell them to peu de doci which means getting lost . |
| 30 | If I hear of one I will inform you . ’ |