Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he crossed the Glen it would be in his own good time , and with an eye to what prizes were left alive for the taking , and for them he would fight as doughtily as any man if he must . |
| 2 | Between them they will pick up an aggregate £1.9m to cover early termination of their service agreements . |
| 3 | Despite the outcome of the final , my message to Will and the boys is thanks for the memories ; for me they will live forever , and I will have great pleasure in years to come to say ‘ I was there ’ , not ‘ I was embarrassed ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ When I left it was open ended so that if things did not work out for me I could go back to playing Charlene . |
| 5 | " If you 'll nobbut stop runnin' after 'em they 'll settle down . |
| 6 | Mind you they 'd probably get a hundred thousand for theirs I should think now . |
| 7 | If she married one of them she could look forward to a life of uncertainty , warfare , shortages , assassinations , massacres and tragedy . |
| 8 | The curving windows at the stern are freckled with spray ; through one of them you can make out a set of fat capstans and a listless macaroni of sodden rope . |
| 9 | So some of them you can work out buy if you know what a transformer does , it steps down all of the current , it reduces the voltage . |
| 10 | Exercise 1 : Try playing the children 's party game where you spend two minutes looking at an assortment of small items on a tray , then cover them with a cloth and see how many of them you can write down . |
| 11 | I would have liked to have checked at once on the state of the horses , but I supposed if there were something wrong with any of them I would hear soon enough . |
| 12 | Anyway , thank you all very much , er some of you we will see again tomorrow , ten o'clock . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't know whether you 're one of those who are interested in such things — from what I know of you I 'd say probably not . |
| 14 | ‘ By the look of it I would think so . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 16 | If the before I come to go past it he would cut back in and and climb across even if if the next car then back in again you 're just going , you start out of line |
| 17 | if I have to wait for you I 'll wait forever cos your eggs are not done |
| 18 | You never know , through you I might found out the mistakes I made . ’ |
| 19 | People like me I can get away with it , I get |
| 20 | Underneath them I 'll write down what to do . |
| 21 | If Lexy was another like her it might explain why she was willing to accept such cavalier treatment . |
| 22 | With them you can buy just about whatever your little capitalist heart desires . |
| 23 | If plants have anything wrong with them it may have already been there when they were obtained , or it is a sign that they are not being grown in the right conditions . |
| 24 | and then if that 's okay with you I 'll come back in about two weeks ' time and |
| 25 | If you walked round the bishop 's wood shortly before you left Cuddesdon , you were likely to become aware of an elfin prelate hunting you through the shrubbery like a gaitered satyr ; and when he caught up with you he would say breathlessly , ‘ If you ever need a bed … ( panting ) … do n't forget I have fifteen spare bedrooms ’ . |
| 26 | She 's a very conceited woman , Pete the adulterous told me she was a very conceited woman and er Neil says I I I 'd have to talk to him to him about this , she could n't discuss anything with him she would lay down the law , that was how it had to be and I said no I said Gerry and I , I had no hesitation , as I said , in putting the boot in and Brenda and Dave take the same the attitude to children that you let them first of all when they 're small , you have to tell them no like you do not |
| 27 | By the time we finish with it we shall have just scratched the surface of the subject . |
| 28 | Cos I was , I said to the youngsters yesterday , I says I 'll tell you what we 'll do , we 'll just take your trainers tomorrow , or we 'll go down the town and put your competition paintings in and then we 'll come round and get the bus up home , and then I thought ah the hell with it we 'll go on down to York Street |
| 29 | ‘ And if he 's thinking he 'll be getting away with it he can think again ! |
| 30 | But if he thought he could get away with it he could think again ! |