Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if I have to wait for you I 'll wait forever cos your eggs are not done |
| 2 | Even allowing for what they would have lost on laundering the proceeds , there should have been a tidy sum . |
| 3 | It is no mystery that a child can feel compelled to judge himself from his father 's viewpoint , although it may seem so if one uses Freudian language and starts puzzling about what it could mean for an instinctive egoist to ‘ introject ’ the image of his father . |
| 4 | Not only am I not prepared to have a semi-detached marriage , but I 'm convinced that if you really cared for me you would have no hesitation about placing my interests first , ’ had been his parting shot as he had left the apartment , slamming the front door loudly behind him . |
| 5 | I think she imagined if she did n't think about it it might go away . |
| 6 | You have to work off what you can get . |
| 7 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 8 | Part Two — Working in the ES — summarises the key points you will need to know about what you can expect in terms of support and entitlements from your new employer and other useful information ; and |
| 9 | The award asks children between the ages of nine and 12 to write about what they would like to do when they grow up . |
| 10 | Charles and Diana frequently visited their brother John 's lichen-covered grave in the Sandringham churchyard and mused about what he would have been like and whether they would have been born if he had lived . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In such circumstances , it is effrontery that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East and my hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) should be attacked for what they might do , instead of the Government being brought to account for what they have done and continue to do . |
| 13 | She knows what I 've got yet she is convinced that if she looks after me I 'll get better . |
| 14 | cos I says if he looks after it I 'll buy him one with radio on as well |
| 15 | " If you 'll nobbut stop runnin' after 'em they 'll settle down . |
| 16 | It certainly has something of value to offer and there is only one way to find out whom it will suit ; try it ! |
| 17 | It was a more than intellectual comprehension ; and to write of it she must strive to become that meeting . |
| 18 | • 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Measure the service you provide against what you would like in similar circumstances . ’ |
| 20 | In other words , there are no revenues included against which we must charge future expenses and there are no expenses against which we must match future revenues : there are no hidden liabilities but at the same time there are no hidden windfalls . |
| 21 | There is very little incentive at the moment because you are constrained with what you can do with the money . ’ |
| 22 | Through this , her love can be tempered into a compassion and understanding with which she can help and sustain others . |
| 23 | You take Shallot 's advice on this : the power of witchcraft lies in what you can make other people think . |
| 24 | Moggridge Associates ' designer Martin Darbyshire , who worked on a small fax machine for a Scandinavian manufacturer , endorses the view that the appeal of fax still lies in what it can do , not what it looks like . |
| 25 | This is a general facility we might like to write in which we would allow us to work like that on any job there is n't for some reason a job , a good reason why a kick-in procedure ca n't be followed , that we deal with it by having em , in the master job file which states that , states the deliberate erm , position rather than an accident . |
| 26 | Consider taking a cheap base in the area before term starts from which you can study the area and the vacancies , and be ready to pounce from close at hand . |
| 27 | After a flight to the east , your body is behind the new local time and to adjust to it you will have to advance your body clock . |
| 28 | Better concentrate on what you can control and get on with it . |
| 29 | Can I then introduce to you I 'll introduce the speaker in a few moments , quite formally , but Michael who 's the guest of Roy . |
| 30 | Researchers are not constrained to what they can observe or experience directly , but are able to cover as many facets of as many people as resources allow . |