Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] " 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By breaking it down into something I can do today , there 's a much better chance I will actually do it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Why I wanted it and how that ties in with who I can love , get it together with , I mean long term . ’ |
| 14 | Initially , both this and its French counterpart , the Academie des Sciences , were concerned as much with what we could call technology as with science . |
| 15 | He was interested only in what he could see or hear or touch and , above everything , measure . |
| 16 | They cobble workings together from whatever they can scrape up . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It should be a close race on paper , but when it comes down to it we 'll see what happens . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | If you give in to them they will do it even more and they will think they have won , ’ she said . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ So among what you might call the floating waiting population , there 's really only you . ’ |
| 26 | The educated person is characterised less by what she can do , and more by what the process of learning and knowing has done to her . |
| 27 | I can not keep her any longer for what she can afford to pay , and she would like you to find her accommodation near where you live . |
| 28 | was n't just for me I 'd like to know him . |
| 29 | He neither filling another form , I says well I 'll fill it in tonight for him he 'll sign it and if I post it tonight you 'll probably get it tomorrow . |
| 30 | So erm I 'm hoping to be able to do it , just off what I can do , m my experience as it is like . |