Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This writing was discovered by her ; she read some material before her visit , which prepared her a little for what she would see . |
| 2 | " Men are daft enough for anything you should know that . |
| 3 | If only for them I 'll do it . |
| 4 | And , although I 'm not so bitchy as to suggest women want him only for what they can get , nine times out of ten it 's probably the truth . ’ |
| 5 | Good only for what it can do . |
| 6 | At the back of her mind was the half-formed worry that William was with her only for what he could get . |
| 7 | Nobody else was moved over the next couple of days so we talked endlessly about what it might mean . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sure if you thought hard enough about it you 'd know the reason for that , Seb . |
| 9 | It 's on a house is only worth what somebody will give . |
| 10 | The next morning brought more early arrivals ; namely , the two ladies from Germany — who had travelled together despite what one would have imagined to have been the great contrast in their backgrounds — bringing with them a large team of ladies-in-waiting and footmen , as well as a great many trunks . |
| 11 | The finder of goods is entitled — except only against one who can show himself to be the owner — to legal protection against all the world . |
| 12 | Well I know they 're not allowed to dig down like what they used to do . |
| 13 | By sailing along behind someone you can act as a human video and when your partner has finished his run you can mimic what he was doing . |
| 14 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 15 | At the same time that personal computer technology is moving to centre stage for corporate applications , ‘ it is moving down into what you might call the intelligent television , where you can select any type of movie to see , or shop , or interact with information , ’ Gates said . |
| 16 | By breaking it down into something I can do today , there 's a much better chance I will actually do it . |
| 17 | True , you will have to put up with unearthing all manner of car parts , everything from exhaust-pipes to wheel trims , but mixed in with them you can expect to find plenty of items lost by earlier travellers . |
| 18 | Why I wanted it and how that ties in with who I can love , get it together with , I mean long term . ’ |
| 19 | Initially , both this and its French counterpart , the Academie des Sciences , were concerned as much with what we could call technology as with science . |
| 20 | He was interested only in what he could see or hear or touch and , above everything , measure . |
| 21 | They cobble workings together from whatever they can scrape up . |
| 22 | The experience of other countries and movements , particularly European social democracy , provided much from which they could learn ; and the future lay in a cooperative rather than confrontational relationship between the USSR and the wider world from which both sides could benefit . |
| 23 | If some studies of style are of doubtful value because of their emphasis on quantitative methods , the opposite tendency to rely entirely on what we may call stylistic intuition has , if anything , been even more prevalent . |
| 24 | Acorn Computer Ltd chose the Cebit Hannover Fair to launch a German version of its RISC OS 3 operating system : not much to it you may think — just translate the error messages — unfortunately the company had reckoned without the sheer verbosity of the German language — it took five beta versions before all the Achtung ! messages were successfully squeezed into the ROM . |
| 25 | It should be a close race on paper , but when it comes down to it we 'll see what happens . |
| 26 | But I have to say that they 've been the major percent of them er we think if only they would knuckle down to it they would do it . |
| 27 | For , oh , how awful is the seizure of the invisible , last enemy , sitting in triumph over the body , which is all over which he can have power . ’ |
| 28 | If you give in to them they will do it even more and they will think they have won , ’ she said . |
| 29 | At the end of the war government assistance was withdrawn and local Bureaux were left to scrape along on what they could glean from local authorities and other sources . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , the announcement of free time seemed to be the local signal for metal shutters to clang down over everything one might have wanted to see . |