Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] and [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have some mail for you and will call out the names . ’ |
| 2 | The second problem with knitting too many rows of tuck is that if a needle is n't knitting ( and , when tucking , it is n't ) it pulls up the knitting on the needles either side of it and can prevent them knitting off correctly . |
| 3 | Hank had no doubt that , sooner or later , old tabby-cats like the MacDonald woman would get wind of it and would give his mother hell about it . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I will keep her on the same round but I will keep an eye on her and may switch the rounds . |
| 5 | Ludens thought , she 's a puritan ; and he felt a sympathy with her and would have tarried , as he sensed that she wanted to talk to him . |
| 6 | They took the little house two doors away from Ken and Rhoda ; her own to play with , to sweep and dust and arrange as she liked , and meals for two to cook at her discretion , and her father and grandmother just down the road so she had both a respite from them and could keep an eye on them , not too close but not too far . |
| 7 | Ca n't you wait until you have a cottage to yourself and can do what you like with your life , Seb Quilter ? ’ |
| 8 | She had brought a lot of her own furniture with her and would sigh and shake her head every time she found a burn or a ring mark on it , and tell me how she had always polished her things ‘ until you could see your face in them ’ . |
| 9 | In this way , thought Chapman , the Southern League , in its new guise , would provide greater competition within itself and would have greater command over its members ' loyalty by providing automatic access for successful clubs to the League . |
| 10 | Sussex 's Wood gave a good account of herself and should have claimed the second set . |
| 11 | Well — what if there were , they had had a lot of him and would find through loss , perhaps , all sorts of qualities in themselves and others they would otherwise have missed . |
| 12 | The heads of agreement will be prepared by us in consultattion with you and will set out the principal terms such as the definition of profits for the purpose of the multiplier . |
| 13 | It would be a contradictory state of affairs to believe that higher education could maintain one kind of culture within itself and could underpin a quite different kind of culture within society at large : there could not be any fundamental incongruity between these two cultural functions of higher education . |
| 14 | I 'm not going to go through the erm , passage at the bottom , but I 'd like you to have a go at it and will go over it on Friday . |
| 15 | Sometimes , when a volcano erupts in the sea , massive carpets of floating pumice accumulate on the sea around it and may drift a long way from it . |