Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Took my letter off me said she 'll come back for it at dinner time because she wanted my bag , I mean like well I , I had n't said that . |
| 2 | ‘ Local authorities have an independent responsibility from 1 April and it is less than satisfactory for them to say they will pay the same rates as central government , ’ he said . |
| 3 | might say , I 'm a beef farmer , erm I enjoy my , my beef very much , my philosophy is that erm , if we 're going to use animals we 're going to eat the , their time here should be as humane , they should have as humane treatment as possible , and they should be free from fear , hunger and pain , and when the time comes for them to go they should know as little about it as possible . |
| 4 | Although it is frightening that so many people take Ecstasy to guarantee a ‘ good time ’ , what is more frightening is that it takes a Class A drug for them to feel they can lose their inhibitions . |
| 5 | Creggan was startled by this and wondered if in some way she understood that he had made a vow that if ever the chance came for them to escape he would place her freedom before his own . |
| 6 | I was careful to explain my own attitude to commissioned work — that in order for me to work it would have to be within the broadest of limitations . |
| 7 | ‘ Surely I already know what the contents of our contract are — namely , that I am to work for you for a period of eighteen months , after which time you will release me with my debt to you cancelled ? ’ |
| 8 | Had a long chat with Dad about which service we should attend . |
| 9 | All filters will require a short ‘ run-in ’ period of up to three or four weeks during which time you should keep stock and feed levels low and conduct extra partial water changes . |
| 10 | You then have 15 seconds ' rest , during which time you must stand still . |
| 11 | Alternatively , if you require a little time , a booking can be held on ‘ Option ’ for 24 hours during which time you must make the booking ‘ firm ’ otherwise the booking will automatically be released . |
| 12 | Concerned specifically with the issue why there is no circularity involved in a justification of deduction which employs deductive reasoning , he contrasts explaining the validity of a form of inference — for which purpose we can use any of our knowledge — with persuading someone of the correctness of a rule — which requires that we avoid circularity . |
| 13 | To be sure all this is done to create something , for which reason we can call it work and not rage . |
| 14 | More than 90 per cent of them said they would support new legislation to ensure higher energy-efficiency standards in household appliances . |
| 15 | He says ; Once one of them says we will go with him then they will all go because they will stick together but I was very suprised with the ammount of people that go . |
| 16 | But if either of them imagines they can force my hand , they much mistake the matter ! |
| 17 | Many of them say they 'd like rather more variety . |
| 18 | If , on the other hand , I am in my early twenties and my parents are in their forties and one of them dies I will grieve in the same way , but am likely to be taken unawares and be unprepared . |
| 19 | Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to . |
| 20 | Er they were banking on the fact that there 'd be problems for other countries because of , you know , public perception etcetera , you know the French had decided almost all of them decided they 'd have a nuclear programme anyway so , so , so they were er o okay . |
| 21 | The local constituency officers got new people and could plan how and when to use them — and later many of them decided they 'd like to go on working with their new friends . |
| 22 | So it 's a it 's a nice place cos it 's like it they do a great spread of I mean you can go for like a nice meal there , but you can like also eat , you know dips and |
| 23 | I think it should be remembered that that public support actually was against a requirement of one thousand nine hundred dwellings , which is not quite the proposal being put forward by the County at the moment , but it is clear that there seems to me n not to be any public or great strength of public objection to the sort of proposals that are now before you in this enquiry , and it also seems to me that the reasons behind erm that that public support are essentially because it meets the first requirement of paragraph P P G thirty three , that the alternative expansion of existing towns or villages will represent a less satisfactory method of providing land for new housing that is needed , I think that is the essence of the public support , and so first of I think you can say that that 's that means that first criteria , and certainly it seems to meet the second automatically because it an expression of public preference . |
| 24 | Now , erm on the subject of of the family , it 's worth mentioning another erm sort of debate that goes on within the subject of child sex abuse , the business of I suppose you might call it the business of responsibility . |
| 25 | Had a bit of everything chips We 'll put it all in one dish an it 'll eat it all . |
| 26 | So it was kind of him to think you might feel like that , too . ’ |
| 27 | She ca n't think of what values she would like him to grow up with , as there is a more immediate concern . |
| 28 | Monica , who runs an ice cream parlour with husband Peter , 52 , added : ‘ I suppose if people caught a glimpse of what happened it may have looked suspicious . |
| 29 | ‘ Neither of us imagined she could have been so wonderful . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Many of us felt he should have had the courage to admit that the job was n't working out instead of using his reputation as England manager to negotiate a lucrative overseas contract and then leaving everyone high and dry without a second thought . |