Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | left to me I 'd take all curtains down |
| 2 | Told me I 'd come 5 kilometres . |
| 3 | There was silence between the three of them for a moment as they returned each other 's stare ; then Joe said , ‘ If you do n't wish to act for me I can make other arrangements . ’ |
| 4 | Anton tells me I can have 20 minutes and then he 's sending the other two on to finish things off . |
| 5 | By having someone in our adult lives who constantly feeds us verbal tranquillizers , or by feeding them to ourselves we can ease emotional pains and keep them at bay for a while . |
| 6 | This was certainly not necessary for the decision of the case ; but though the resolution of the Court of Common Pleas was only a dictum , it seems to me clear that Lord Coke deliberately adopted the dictum , and the great weight of his authority makes it necessary to be cautious before saying that what he deliberately adopted as law was a mistake , and though I can not find that in any subsequent case this dictum has been made the ground of the decision , except in Fitch v. Sutton ( 1804 ) 5 East 230 , as to which I shall make some remarks later , and in Down v. Hatcher ( 1839 ) 10 Ad. & El . |
| 7 | She was scanning the windows of the ward above , and holding up a plastic shopping bag , through which I could discern two bottles of wine and several cartons of cakes and other goodies . |
| 8 | Our gentle driving had resulted in 15.6mpg — about what I was expecting — but also a maximum touring range of 300 miles , which I can imagine some owners quibbling with . |
| 9 | In Men 's rooms , which are the only ones from which I can report personal experiences , there are elaborate rituals for avoiding the impression of suspect motives . |
| 10 | For a programme in which you can devote six hours a day to language learning , Brewster and Brewster suggest the following amounts of time on each phrase : In your daily programme you may experience two reactions — boredom or frustration . |
| 11 | He 's got a pair of shearing scissors and he 's been doing like , this boy 's African , so he 's got , you know , Afro hair , which you can do curly-wurly signs on the back of him , it looks pretty neat . |
| 12 | Camp on one hole one day , or in an area from which you can see several holes . |
| 13 | £50000 does not go very far in TV , except on one or two small regional stations ; it is quite difficult , as the cigarette companies find , to spend £1 million plus on a brand without using TV at all : if you only have a few hundred pounds to spend there are few press media in which you can consider full pages or even moderately large sizes . |
| 14 | But what catches the eye , while lane-changing to avoid the gaudily clad in day-glo outfits , is the ease with which you can buy boron-graphite shafts at just 13 dollars a go . |
| 15 | And the dear , good man had designed Almsmead , in the centre of a green field ; had surrounded it with a rose-garden ; given her apple trees and a lily-pond ; a trellised , covered walk down to the river with its clear , clean water in which she could see smooth pebbles and little silvery fishes instead of the slime and gas bubbles and dead cats one saw — if one had the stomach to look — in Frizingley 's canal . |
| 16 | This may take several hours during which she will lay small groups of eggs , which the male fertilises and covers with more bubbles . |
| 17 | At the same time , it has permitted the formation of a more precise theory of relationships from which we may deduce evolutionary pathways . |
| 18 | We can explain that they come from an age when theology and the natural sciences were not divorced from one another , when God was held directly responsible for disasters we would now call ‘ natural ’ , and for which we would have scientific explanations to hand that did not mention God at all . |
| 19 | Most of the weekend exercises started off with a para drop on to a drop zone somewhere in the British Isles , after which we would spend two days marching with large packs , practising attacks and fieldcraft . |
| 20 | We can all think of examples to which we would apply these descriptions and be willing to give reasons . |
| 21 | In other words , there are no revenues included against which we must charge future expenses and there are no expenses against which we must match future revenues : there are no hidden liabilities but at the same time there are no hidden windfalls . |
| 22 | In other words , there are no revenues included against which we must charge future expenses and there are no expenses against which we must match future revenues : there are no hidden liabilities but at the same time there are no hidden windfalls . |
| 23 | As with the stereotypes we refer to in the business of everyday life , we know they are not , and can not be , comprehensively true or correct , but they provide us with an indispensable framework within which we can interpret particular instances . |
| 24 | They are the first published documents from which we can glean personal details about ordinary older people in significant numbers . |
| 25 | We observe that , in addition to the given matrices C and B , ( 2 ) contains 2n + 1 other quantities , viz. λ , x , and F. Since we have n equations , we can determine any n of these quantities in terms of the remaining n + 1 , to which we can ascribe arbitrary values . |
| 26 | One answer to this question might utilize an optical theory of the telescope that explains its magnifying properties and that also gives an account of the various aberrations to which we can expect telescopic images to be subject . |
| 27 | This shape difference measure is the fundamental building block by which we can create large databases of outline shapes that can be searched efficiently . |
| 28 | The radius of the circle is determined by the reach of our fists and feet , the weapons with which we can repel unwanted guests if necessary . |
| 29 | The citizens charter is not only a programme of new suggestions ; it is a framework under which we can produce further suggestions ourselves . |
| 30 | This is one respect in which we can see regional differences opening up in the kind of support which relatives can give to each other , although we know very little about how these matters are handled in families at the present time . |