Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no special law allowing A , B , and C to meet together in the open air or elsewhere for a lawful purpose , but the right of A to go where he pleases so that he does not commit a trespass , and to say what he likes to B so that his talk is not libellous or seditious , the right of B to do the like , and the existence of the same rights of C , D , E , and F and so on ad infinitum , lead to the consequence that A , B , C , D and a thousand or ten thousand other persons , may ( as a general rule ) meet together in any place where otherwise they each have a right to be for a lawful purpose and in a lawful manner . |
| 2 | Although we will never know officially , because the Lawn Tennis Association is understandably touchy and secretive about such matters , I would be highly surprised to discover that they lost less than £500,000 on the Diet Pepsi event at the new National Indoor Arena in Birmingham in November . |
| 3 | Now you do n't have to worry if you go out and forget to turn your styler off — Hot Shot does it for you ! |
| 4 | can we just erm clarify that Mr , of course it 's dealing with the previous years accounts , but until you get to the end of the previous year are you going to know whether you 've over or under est estimated on budget ? |
| 5 | So it 's very important to know before you go round if if they 've got copy . |
| 6 | My dear Victor , I want you to know before you arrive home that an awful thing has happened . |
| 7 | Decisions about the nature of planning will of course vary greatly from school to school , but it 's important for the head to remember that we accomplish most when the staff and children are working together . |
| 8 | Anyway , forty six and then we had no house , at all , because my mother had died and my father , we said to my father you leave if you want to we should be alright we 'll find somewhere to go and we did n't and we had to have a Nissan hut for about a year , supplied by the Council |
| 9 | ‘ Sweetie , you know I said if there was anything heavy that needed doing you were to wait until I got in and I 'd do it . |
| 10 | It is illegal to drive if you have more than 80mg alcohol in each 100ml of blood . |
| 11 | I want to suggest that they have not and that there are equally plausible ( though less politically attractive ) explanations for the associations they claim to identify . |
| 12 | This is not to suggest that you dash out and decimate your garden . |
| 13 | And this means that if on the same grounds I claim today to know that it will rain in the afternoon , I must continue to assert that I knew yesterday that it would rain that afternoon ( in the teeth of the evidence ) . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ They deserved to win and we did n't because we did n't play at all . |
| 15 | Okay well they get they 've got lots of them to mark and they marked quickly but I Looks alright to me that . |
| 16 | I ca n't do that I tell you , I mean I do n't mind , do n't get me wrong it 's just that I was the last one back up and I got up there , still got a little bit of to do and they got more than they did |
| 17 | For three weeks I had nothing to do and I sat down and decided — I have recorded all these pieces before — to see if there was not something more behind the music . |
| 18 | He went in ahead of her and tried the lights ; they flickered once , but he seemed to know what to do because he went inside and Sandy heard him thump something , and then all the lights came on . |
| 19 | Tell the resident what you plan to do before you start so that he/she knows what is about to happen and can help if possible . |
| 20 | He had tried to sleep when he got home but to no avail . |
| 21 | R&D consortia which include films that produce different products using the same basic technological knowledge may also be able to segment user markets , price discriminating more effectively as a group than they are able to do when they act independently and earning a higher return on their R&D activities . |
| 22 | What I really want to ask before the house , very , very briefly indeed is the question of er what are they going to do when they get there and er thus look at the question of the cost effectiveness , well I see it . |
| 23 | Maybe he thought that since there 'd been sixty-odd quid in my bag there 'd be more on my person , and he only had to wait till I nodded off and then he 'd nick it and away . |
| 24 | Cotton lavender needs a dry sunny situation in light soil to ensure that it ripens fully and is thus better able to withstand cold . |
| 25 | She looked at him in enquiry , rapidly changing to alarm as he asked curtly if she was Miss Adams and , barely waiting for her nod , pushed his way into her small hall , slamming the door behind him . |
| 26 | Eva had become eccentric : when a decision was needed Ted and I often had to wait while she retired upstairs and meditated on the exact shape of the conservatory or the dimensions of the kitchen . |
| 27 | But that 's the same as if you willed spouse had died before you for instance , and you were the second of two to die and she had n't or she might have everything to the children and you still got a hundred and sixty thousand pounds , you ca n't avoid the inheritance tax in those circumstances . |
| 28 | But his mind was quick , and his memories were all intact ; and the longing never really went away , that awful persistent longing that could find outlet only in frustration and anger , and a wish to do bad things ; to hurt and to insult like he did now while he waited for David to concede defeat and agree to take him to the auction after all . |
| 29 | I HAD to laugh when I read recently that a water authority had charged a customer for collecting rain-water , claiming that it belonged to them . |
| 30 | That 's the price he 'll have to pay as he progresses onwards and upwards through boxing 's weight divisions . |