Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pron] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I know they 're not allowed to dig down like what they used to do . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 , |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | By breaking it down into something I can do today , there 's a much better chance I will actually do it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Why I wanted it and how that ties in with who I can love , get it together with , I mean long term . ’ |
| 8 | It should be a close race on paper , but when it comes down to it we 'll see what happens . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If you give in to them they will do it even more and they will think they have won , ’ she said . |
| 11 | At the end of the war government assistance was withdrawn and local Bureaux were left to scrape along on what they could glean from local authorities and other sources . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | With Tracey apparently intent on limiting his own involvement , she longed to talk things over with someone who might offer more active help ; at the same time , she felt an almost superstitious reluctance to go through the story again in the kind of detail a confidante would need . |
| 14 | People do n't follow through on what they can see , erm and what erm might be there . |
| 15 | If he came over to them she would have to introduce him , and that thought was enough to bring on near hysteria . |
| 16 | To one side was a row of lights which flickered on and off like something you 'd get |
| 17 | There is a similar relationship between the individual and his surroundings which is suggested in a psychologist 's perceptive formulation of the position : ‘ Part of the intangible boundary of the self is marked off by what we can control . |
| 18 | Getting on with what you should be doing that can only see a few people doing that who are actually getting on with what they should have been doing while you are waiting . |
| 19 | The Myrcans looked on with what he could have sworn was approval . |
| 20 | Tomorrow she really must settle down to serious work on her novel ; time was slipping past , her deadline was approaching and if she did n't get on with it she 'd have Joe making agitated phone calls and coming down to visit . |
| 21 | Unless we can get professional managers who are as good entrepreneurially as those who set up for themselves we shall have major problems ahead . |
| 22 | And to make up for it I 'll treat you to a slap-up lunch in Haverfordwest . ’ |
| 23 | Every now and again , we run up against what you might call a medieval . |
| 24 | With an inconvenient house and stuck out on that headland with nothing to look at but a ruined abbey and that atomic power station they 'll have to put up with what they can get . ’ |
| 25 | We could n't do an awful lot because it was er er classed as a luxury business er and so we , we could n't get an awful lot of photographic paper or films or anything of that sort but we managed to keep the connections up with what we could get . |
| 26 | And they are quite happy to put up with what I would term the inconvenience of going there and back each day |
| 27 | ‘ Then I catch up with what I should have been doing all day . |
| 28 | I told Debbie about the house because they 'd quarrelled , she and her father , and I was afraid that if she did n't try and make it up with him he would change his mind . |
| 29 | She did not add , He would jump at the chance of someone filling that post , so that he would n't be asked to take the children off Rose 's hands until she is once more fixed up with someone who could manage her unruly crowd , as well as herself and the house . |
| 30 | If you walked round the bishop 's wood shortly before you left Cuddesdon , you were likely to become aware of an elfin prelate hunting you through the shrubbery like a gaitered satyr ; and when he caught up with you he would say breathlessly , ‘ If you ever need a bed … ( panting ) … do n't forget I have fifteen spare bedrooms ’ . |