Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pers pn] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan turned out to be North 's own favoured ‘ final act ’ for the contras : that if Congress did not approve any more money for them they would seize a piece of Nicaragua , establish a provisional government and there make a last stand , while the American Navy blockaded the rest of the country . |
| 2 | There is little to say about this except that if living alone is a new experience for you you will tend to buy too much at first and waste a lot unless you cook and freeze . |
| 3 | Yeah we should get sixty pound for them I should think . |
| 4 | They admit it 's expensive , but say that by sharing the aircraft between them it should provide value for money . |
| 5 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 6 | yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void |
| 7 | I mean there 's , there 's the practical side of actually having , I mean well there 's various aspects of it you could have someone as a figurehead |
| 8 | This is why Matthew 18:15 gives the admonition that if our brother sins against us we should go to the brother and show him his fault . |
| 9 | ‘ With a figure like yours you can take anything you like , love , ’ said Dad jauntily . |
| 10 | Go to a pushbike shop they whip them off and whip them on for you you buy , you know , if you go out and buy one then just take wheel with you they 'll stick them straight on . |
| 11 | We noticed that quite often if people ate the sandwich they left the cake , or vice versa , so when we used to collect the trays from them we would take whatever was left . |
| 12 | If you buy your engagement ring from them you will get a 10 per cent discount on your wedding ring or rings . |
| 13 | If he had moved his mouth from hers she would have come to her senses , resisted , but he did no such thing . |
| 14 | The Irish have settled into this country and there are communities of them all over do they go and see your concerts and if they do that must mean a great deal to them I should think ? |
| 15 | Well I went and worked in a factory for about nine months I suppose , and the man himself , cos it was casting , brass castings , the man himself says , he says look son , this job 's no good to you I 'll tell you that . |
| 16 | If Ken had only put his mind to it he might have in the end come up with something even better . |
| 17 | If he sets his mind to it he could make it in the cross-channel game , ’ says Scottish goal scoring ace Derek Cook , who himself will pose a considerable threat to Ards . |
| 18 | If you want to make a fight of it I should warn you that they were not his to give . |
| 19 | He looked at me as though he was trying to work out which part of me he would take a bit out of . |
| 20 | I looked in on him not half an hour ago , and he is fast asleep , and by the look of him he 'll sleep until past Prime tomorrow . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ By the look of it I would think so . ’ |
| 22 | If there 's no work for 'em they can go home for the day . |
| 23 | I mean , when you can get Dick Tracy for free you 'll take it , but when you have to pay £10 for it you 'll leave it on the shelf . |
| 24 | If it was n't for the air of wary intelligence about him it might have been supposed that he was a barbarian from the Hubland wastes . |
| 25 | Help us to draw closer to others , in friendship and fellowship , so that as ambassadors for you we may convey Your message to the world today . |
| 26 | Yeah right so go down and see him , and then go over to that place near Red Row and see if they 'll cut that wood for you we can see it 's just gone half past two now , I want a ball game on the fence post |
| 27 | Pretty fair stack of them I should think , was n't there ? |
| 28 | And for a really considered exposition of it we can turn to Charles Temple 's Native Races and their Rulers ( 1918 ) , a remarkable work which , though it bears the unmistakable stamp of a mind operating obsessively in isolation , pursuing ideas by their internal logic rather than by the rules of external evidence , can yet be assumed to possess a representative character . |
| 29 | About six feet below them they could hear thumps and scrapes as the luckless Stim dug his way down into the darkness . |
| 30 | From the hall behind them they could hear the commotion as their comrades and the invaders fought hand to hand . |