Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in a village in South India , where there may be say twenty distinct castes , a single honorific particle may have just one meaning ( e.g. speaker is inferior to addressee ) but have twenty distinct rules for its appropriate usage : members of one caste may use it to their cross-cousins , others only to their affines , etc. ( for the actual details see Levinson , 1977 ) . |
| 2 | The accumulation of life 's experience should make us at our wisest when we are old . |
| 3 | The logic of this suggests that we blokes should introduce you to our exes just to show what perfectly normal , likeable girls they are . |
| 4 | Perhaps Scott should take it with him in case someone tried to make contact . |
| 5 | This is an easy way of raising money , and appeal organisers are hoping other schools might adopt it on their behalf . |
| 6 | One government pamphlet complained how scarcely any of the Anglican clergy could find it in their hearts to thank the King , " and those Few that pretend to do it , have proceeded so Awkwardly in their Acknowledgments , as renders them of very little Value , since in the same addresses they also pressed for " the continuance of those Penal Laws , which diametrically oppose … the Royal Indulgence " . |
| 7 | ‘ The first 20 minutes will be critical and , the way he kicks , Botha could beat us on his own if we give him the chances , ’ said Carling , whose assessment was backed by pack leader Brian Moore . |
| 8 | Pat used to tell us about it |
| 9 | Perhaps Valerie would wash them for you ? |
| 10 | Something about the back of a man 's neck would remind me of him . |
| 11 | But the sign on the wall still said King Street , and Jacob presumed that as yet only members of the IRA and their supporters would call it by its new name . |
| 12 | If speed will turn you into your parents , PCP might turn you seriously psychotic . |
| 13 | When you have lined up your data in this way a glance will tell you for which sounds you have enough words to make check lists . |
| 14 | Presumably the interplay of political and economic self-interest of government in industry will bring us to their goal . |
| 15 | But in the near future clients will expect it from them all . |
| 16 | Leisure studies , interests and hobbies will keep you on your toes so if you 're a couch potato or telly addict you 'd better change your ways . |
| 17 | Kendall Square is pioneering massively parallel processing for the commercial world with its KSR1 machine , and Siemens Nixdorf will market it through its Scientific Computing Branch to technical and scientific users . |
| 18 | No it 's just that they take ages and ages and ages cos Dundee will ask Nottingham , Nottingham will ask us to bring the notes back , then we 'll send them to Nottingham , Nottingham will send them to Dundee , Dundee will send them to your G P . |
| 19 | Still , I expect David will talk her into it . |
| 20 | It is hoped that this instrument will help him in his new parish of Our Lady of Lourdes in Leasowe to enrich further the lives of the people at home with all kinds of music . |
| 21 | It 's obviously very important that some stories are big enough to break if you 're lucky in the national media but more important each of the clubs and sailing schools can get it in their local events because they 're only too happy to take er provide the stories . |
| 22 | I do n't really get pocket money but if I see something in the shops in , in , this toy or something my mum , mum 'll buy it for me and say that 's your pocket money for this week . |
| 23 | It was just possible that the kidnappers might show it to him . |
| 24 | ‘ About the Journal do you think William might edit it for us ? |
| 25 | It will take courage to do this , but delivering an ultimatum may bring him to his senses . |
| 26 | Various ideas were put forward , including the suggestion that the council should keep it on themselves or that it could be re-enacted by actors or schoolchildren . |
| 27 | When it reached the stage in the title year when it looked as though the scum might beat us to it , if they had have done , it would have been largely due to the difference between Whyte/Fairclough and Pallister/Bruce . |
| 28 | Oh there 's people go down the Chinese with letters and the boy 'll give it to me erm can I have so and so , so and so , so and so , so and so , I 'll pay you tomorrow when get paid . |
| 29 | I says well if you do n't smoke them I says me and Maggie 'll get them for you |
| 30 | Any fool can buy a blue-chip index ; Aunt Agatha could do it for herself , if she had the money and a stockbroker . |