Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [pron] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the first type , it always implies incidence to an actualizer of the infinitive event , someone or something which would have been explicitly expressed as the subject had the verb been finite . |
| 2 | Absolutely yeah , I mean I and I I 'll reiterate it and I 'm not siding with Malcolm but two days after the stock taking they did prior to this one , we were out there rechecking . |
| 3 | No I know my but it it 'll give me a little independence as well will it not ? |
| 4 | He was much more content now , though melancholy about himself and what he 'd come to . |
| 5 | Zak came up to me with Donna and offered me a lift back to the city in their bus , and at that exact moment I saw not Bill Baudelaire himself but someone who might go among the owners , where Tommy could n't . |
| 6 | But his hand was up , silencing me and what he must have guessed were to be my thanks . |
| 7 | He called me into his office and proceeded to deliver a very embarrassed speech about how he would support me and anything I might do . |
| 8 | His usually placid , cheerful features were contorted with rage and she stood dumb while he poured out a stream of abuse upon Ellen and upon her and upon the Wilson family and upon the English and upon everyone and everything he could think of . |
| 9 | A woman 's number was at the bottom of the Time Out piece and it was with some feelings of fear that I decided to ring it , not knowing who or what I would find . |
| 10 | Lashing out at him that way she 'd cut off all information about who and what she 'd become , and why . |
| 11 | ‘ In spite of no one being here but you and me I shall dress for dinner tonight , and expect you to do likewise . ’ |
| 12 | Let's look at the five in turn and see how they apply to you and what you can do to counteract any harmful effects they may be having on your life . |
| 13 | They 've done before you realise it , and once they 're done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you 'd like to be and you 've lost your true self forever . ’ |
| 14 | Good , okay well let's take some details from you and what I 'll do is I 'll register your details onto our mailing list so that erm , anything that 's coming onto the market you 'll get a phone call on straight away to let you know but also I 'll then check and see what we 've got that might suit your requirements at the moment . |
| 15 | planning for you but what I can show you is some sketches which the gentleman who bought the plot at Grey Lane brought to show me asked my opinion . |
| 16 | I mean I du n no whether you whether you you may want |
| 17 | ‘ Lord , the son of Siban , whose name has been offered to you as one you may see fit to pardon , as is the custom on this day . ’ |
| 18 | It was like in films when people have a heart attack — they mumble something which seems very important to them but which no-one can understand . |
| 19 | and I think it 's something that we ourselves should look at . |
| 20 | Trying to put myself in his skin in that room at that time must not , of course , be taken to mean that the act contemplated and later committed by Miller is something that I myself could think of doing . |
| 21 | Erm or the the Y against I mean in this one if you You could plot that against X which is the normal way . |
| 22 | Also , I should say that erm the District Health Authorities now also have the right to initiate this , and of course they are more likely to be in contact with children who are under erm school age , and so it 's going to imply that the different services within the Local Authorities are going to have to work quite closely together on this one and what you should have , by the time a statement is prepared , is a very detailed profile of a particular child and one in which the parent has been consulted and various other people have been consulted . |
| 23 | He insisted that no one but he himself could decide whether he was going to drink or not and anyway , he had plenty of money , enough to buy all the drink in the bar if he wanted . |
| 24 | Play him or her you can explain the results which you want from the session and the engineer can advise you on any extra equipment which you may need to hire . |
| 25 | If he could convince her that nothing she could say or do would make him change his mind about Carrie , the way would be open for him to prove to Carrie he had enough love for the two of them . |
| 26 | By this man who had no power over him and whom he could sink with one word to Merymose . |
| 27 | It was she , too , alone , he sensed , who could satisfy him and he who could satisfy her . |
| 28 | They 'll they and they you 'll see them going mm not that not that one back to the first I do n't know and then they get the dictionary out . |
| 29 | This surprised me , as I had not thought of him as someone who would favour me , and in any case I presumed that he would support Willie Whitelaw . |
| 30 | HOG will define an object 's attributes — what parameters can be set and what information can be retrieved ; the ‘ methods ’ associated with that object — what can be done to it and what it can do ; and its notification — what the object emits ( such as warning to tell the system that a file is nearly full , for example ) and what it can be read to . |