Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it would throw me completely if you put , if you changed some of the number plates over . |
| 2 | The Minister did not answer me earlier when I tried to raise a point about the period of between six and 16 months . |
| 3 | Do you want them now if you wanted them ? |
| 4 | You have up here you 've got neither win lose but it 's like it 's a respectable thing you know you respect each other you do n't trust them completely and you do n't co-operate completely but they just respect just not you 're just not willing to go that further little bit and it becomes more of a more of a rather than a win lose or a win win it 's more of a people half and half okay I 'll give this much if you give that much . |
| 5 | " I do n't think she 'd ever trust me again if she knew . " |
| 6 | Dr Jean Coope , in Menopause , advises : ‘ You may not think the stranger is the perfect son or daughter-in-law , but the chances are that your children know who will suit them better than you do , and the sooner you accept this fact , the happier your family will be . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ OK , then , if you want me to play it straight , I 'll introduce you tomorrow whether you come out for dinner with me tonight or not . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Would n't know her again if she walked in here right now . |
| 9 | But even as the idea occurred to her , she dismissed it ; from the athletic way Fernand had cleared the rail it was likely that his legs were as strong and muscular as his sinewy arms and he would probably catch her long before she reached the house . |
| 10 | Yeah , I suppose to , you know with you saying it 's quite a biggish house , I said erm , does she need it like so she said yeah because the two kids are in one bedroom . |
| 11 | I 'll catch it now before it does . |
| 12 | I think there are many purposes that the County Farms should have , and we need to look at what is the best value financially , that we can obtain for the people of Wiltshire , so when everybody talks about they 'd like their country schools maintained , they 'd like this that or the other bought , they 'd like Corsham station purchased , we could buy it easily if we sold a County Farm could n't we ? |
| 13 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
| 14 | We can all enjoy it eventually if we try hard enough sort of thing . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd enjoy it more if I had the tools … but yes , I do . |
| 16 | Enid and I will describe it all when we come back . ’ |
| 17 | When he had dressed himself he went back out of the kitchen door ; no doubt Ellen would latch it again once she heard him go , her vengeance at what life had done to her completed . |
| 18 | Here the consequentialist differs from the non-consequentialist in that some of the latter would stress the importance of people keeping their promises and would consider it better if they did . |
| 19 | ‘ If the inhabitants are like us , they will respect us only if they see that we are strong . ’ |
| 20 | was that you could , you could give them then if we know it 's going to be certain people , we can give them names . |
| 21 | I thought he 'd send me home but he did n't . |
| 22 | I would do them later because I tell you what happens then , there will be a ch , there may well be a choice in two columns , I do n't know if that |
| 23 | Right I 'll do them again if anybody missed any . |
| 24 | They will harass them even if they do n't arrest them . ’ |
| 25 | The twins are in the buggy outside , ’ she said , ‘ You 'd better bring them inside before someone steals them . ’ |
| 26 | At the next new moon get into your boat and let the wind carry you eastwards until you reach the windswept isle of Bujan , the sun 's bright home , where shines the amber stone Alatyr , guarded by the eldest brother of all the crows . |
| 27 | She had hoped he might arrange to come and collect her now that he had the car — and now that things were , well , serious between them . |
| 28 | He said nothing to his wife , but at the next new moon got into his boat and let the wind carry him eastwards until he reached the windswept isle of Bujan , where the grass grows green and the grapes hang on the wild vines . |
| 29 | She said can I borrow her please and I said no . |
| 30 | This state can be induced in about three-quarters of the population ; the rest for some unknown reason can not achieve it even if they wish to do so . |