Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This particular study for so he could listen to it . |
| 2 | Erm so who do we put into the suggestion of perhaps you will look at that with a very serious and maybe sort of er or by to take seventy three million . |
| 3 | I would be grateful if you could let me know immediately whether of not you can help by providing an article . |
| 4 | I mean you 're not exactly gon na get out of well you can read on the bus and train and that . |
| 5 | When she was out of here she would write to him and explain . |
| 6 | Bogue and Buffa ( 1986 , pp. 169–70 ) provide an indication of how one might proceed with such tests . |
| 7 | Having accounted for how action types might acquire conventional but unstructured meanings , he advances straightaway to a discussion of how one might come into an alien community and find evidence that their linguistic interactions are structured ( syntactically and semantically ) . |
| 8 | The root problem here is the question of how we can arrive at absolutely certain and reliable knowledge . |
| 9 | In my own research into books and reading I have had classes of 15-year-olds write essays on the subject of how they would feel about working in a bookshop . |
| 10 | As a compensation , and as a substitute for the lost narcissism of childhood , ‘ normal ’ people develop an ego ideal , a conception , more emotional than intellectual , of how they would like to be . |
| 11 | The development of safe and reliable engineering systems requires knowledge of how they will perform under both normal and failure conditions . |
| 12 | If the Government are prepared to put £66 million into the work now , as well as dragooning hon. Members to push this Bill through the House , they must have — certainly they ought to have — a clearer idea of how they will behave in relation to the ultimate funding of the project when British Rail wants to start work . |
| 13 | But if members of Labour 's Philosophical Tendency , from Tony Benn to Bryan Gould , are choosing their words carefully it may be through fear of how they will look in each other 's diaries . |
| 14 | She was simply reminding Jaq of how she might continue to be useful . |
| 15 | ‘ And she brought this outfit ’ — she touched Agnes 's sleeve — ‘ as a sample of how she would pay for her hats . |
| 16 | Three visits from her husband had helped , perhaps ( the first in the small hours of the Sunday morning , two hours after his release from custody ) , but some slight complications had arisen with continued internal bleeding , and she had become deeply and embarrassingly conscious of how she must appear to everyone whenever she smiled . |
| 17 | I thought of how I must seem to them , the people I 'd grown to know . |
| 18 | I simply have no idea of how it would proceed in practice . |
| 19 | I have read Labour 's document , which is entitled ’ Fair Rates ’ , in which the Labour party did not tackle the question of how it would deal with houses in multiple occupation or refer to salary levels . |
| 20 | As it turns out , our long way round through the deaf community , its history , sign language , memory and interpreting has given us an understanding of the concept of Total Communication and of how it might fit into the world of deaf people . |
| 21 | His undergraduates were thus given a sense of the progression of medical knowledge , and of how it might develop in the future . |
| 22 | This same point was made earlier during the discussion of general applications , and examples were given of how it can assist with such things as planning , exploring relationships , putting particular aspects of an organisation into context , etc ; in other words , using it as a basis for creative thinking and logical deduction . |
| 23 | Church history offers many examples of how it can happen in a group context . |
| 24 | He went into her giant bathroom to take his mind off things and stood there awhile between her mirrors , thinking not particularly of how he looked himself but mostly of the inflections that she had caught from Fred , and also of how it must feel to be this negligently perfect child , who had obviously never in her life spent herself combating a flaw . |
| 25 | But by the latter part of the 1970s he experienced an irresistible urge to return to the private sector and he had a very clear idea of how he would go about it . |
| 26 | This is more evidence for the claim that you get a verb phrase in a sentence erm , but it introduces , er it 's also an example of how you can account for grammatical phenomena in terms of er structural relations in sentences and large expressions . |
| 27 | The idiom is worth learning to understand in order to develop a sense of how you should respond to the ( often hidden ) questions inside an examination or coursework question . |
| 28 | And to do that will require individuals with the ability to clarify the issues and an acute sense of when they might advance by retreating a little . |
| 29 | Just for once I 'd like to be able to do something properly , but I never will . |
| 30 | Their husbands were away and they did n't know if they 'd come back or not and er , one girl er th this was n't at the , near where I used to live at . |