Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've had a marvellous clear out — got every single shirt on to the line — and when you take that off you could put it in the bucket so I can get it out tomorrow . ’ |
| 2 | Some of them would make their way to the railway station , but a few , having no horse and trap and unable to afford even the train fare , would travel on foot the whole week , often sleeping rough in the fields or in barns or farmhouses . |
| 3 | As I said , life is not all plain sailing , there are troubles , there are storms and some of them are very fierce and some of them would cause us to , to wonder if there is an escape . |
| 4 | I remember when I was working on the building sites in Manchester , the Irish lads called onions " navvies ' apples " and some of them would peel them and eat them whole like fruit . |
| 5 | And some of them would take it maybe themselves just or in Kirkwall . |
| 6 | Different people will notice different things and some of them may surprise you . |
| 7 | I 'm sure that some of them will help me . ’ |
| 8 | Some of them will use their votes judiciously in order to bring about whichever outcome it is they seek : the defeat of the John Major government . |
| 9 | But it 's the same as England , really ; some of them can handle me and some of them ca n't . |
| 10 | Now er some of them can stop you see . |
| 11 | Some of you may say it is not good manners to be removing such things from one 's chest at the dinner table . ’ |
| 12 | Some of you may remember her because we stayed at her hotel er a little while ago and she has a lovely horse chestnut tree er outside her hotel and since we went it stopped producing conkers . |
| 13 | SOME of you may remember me appealing for help to form a national organisation to write to prisoners on death row in the Caribbean . |
| 14 | Though some of you may question my priorities we must be under no illusion . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll be glad to stretch your legs for a bit longer in Thunder Bay , and some of you might visit your horses . ’ |
| 16 | Smith told them : ‘ If you play really well against what looks like a near full-strength side , some of you will face them in next week 's Test and others will go higher in the national rankings . ’ |
| 17 | Some of you will pick it up very simp , easily , others need to have a few tries at it . |
| 18 | We 've got our ferry port , very proud of our municipally owned ferry port , I hope some of you will use it , or if you have n't done so already . |
| 19 | The predominant influence of parties in deciding which of their candidates shall win seats is an inescapable fact of political life , however much some of us may deplore it . |
| 20 | That 's the thing about drink : some of us can take it , and some of us ca n't . |
| 21 | Drawing a line from the Bishops Cannings church co-ordinates to each of the salient points of the line and comparing the angles of each of them will tell us if they were linked by a straight line of not . |
| 22 | Accordingly , the parties agree that each of them will accept my decision on the matters referred to me hereunder as conclusive and binding and that neither will bring any action or proceeding or make any claim against me as expert relating to or arising from the performance of my duties hereunder . |
| 23 | Each of them will have its own integrity , its own remit and its belief in its own purpose . |
| 24 | In contrast to this , according to the emotivist thesis , the typical cause and effect of a statement like ‘ Personal affection is a great good ’ is not any kind of genuine belief , which could be true or false , but an emotional attitude of favouring personal affection , which each of us may find ourselves either sharing or otherwise , but which we can not properly call true or false ; it therefore has primarily an emotive rather than a descriptive meaning . |
| 25 | But each of us must keep our information up-to-date so the company as a whole can be up-to-date , too . ’ |
| 26 | Thus Kant 's moral philosophy has the merit of mainly being concerned with illuminating how each of us should decide what to do himself , rather than with advising him how to judge others . |
| 27 | If each of us could play our own small part , those parts would link up , like the ripples on a pond , to make a earth-saving whole . |
| 28 | Even when I said I was family — well , yes , I know it was n't true but it seemed near enough the truth to use to persuade them neither of them would give her away . ’ |
| 29 | My father would rage and storm , not so much at my mother as to her , and against Helen and Pat in their absence , but in the end neither of them would say anything to either of my sisters . |
| 30 | He moved up to kiss her while his hand continued to stroke her aching body , then , when neither of them could bear it any longer , he thrust into her , and she arched back , drowning under wave after wave of mounting pleasure . |