Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She 's a very conceited woman , Pete the adulterous told me she was a very conceited woman and er Neil says I I I 'd have to talk to him to him about this , she could n't discuss anything with him she would lay down the law , that was how it had to be and I said no I said Gerry and I , I had no hesitation , as I said , in putting the boot in and Brenda and Dave take the same the attitude to children that you let them first of all when they 're small , you have to tell them no like you do not |
| 32 | If something happens at the school or to someone associated with it which may reflect badly give facts but no opinions . |
| 33 | By the time we finish with it we shall have just scratched the surface of the subject . |
| 34 | Cos I was , I said to the youngsters yesterday , I says I 'll tell you what we 'll do , we 'll just take your trainers tomorrow , or we 'll go down the town and put your competition paintings in and then we 'll come round and get the bus up home , and then I thought ah the hell with it we 'll go on down to York Street |
| 35 | ‘ And if he 's thinking he 'll be getting away with it he can think again ! |
| 36 | But if he thought he could get away with it he could think again ! |
| 37 | The full Oxford English Dictionary is available on compact disc ; and with it you can do far more extensive searches for information than the printed book allows . |
| 38 | And given you know just just a bit of help , be it financial or or erm housing or or help in terms of of contact and support and er you know having having people round you you can call on . |
| 39 | the truth should be er help for me now , give me , give me a support or something and from her I could go about two weeks not hearing at all , no phone call , nothing . |
| 40 | From it you can look across to the well-occupied slopes on the other side of the wide river valley , where there are numbers of small villages and some fine agricultural land , because these glaciated valleys are celebrated for their fertility . |
| 41 | That 's that 's it until I know or I know what I 'm actually looking for in it I can run around chasing me tail all day which |
| 42 | In it you 'll find more fun and thrill rides than any other amusement park in Europe . |
| 43 | Probably she 'll be so wrapped up in it she 'll feel differently . ’ |
| 44 | One day someone is going to feel so sorry for her he 'll end up marrying her . |
| 45 | His restlessness permeated the entire house , and she felt guilty , certain that her presence was tying him to Gullholm , that if it were n't for her he would go home , or visit one or other of his sisters or his mother , all of whom made regular telephone calls . |
| 46 | ‘ But without them it will look much better , I promise , and if we take out these awful shoulder-pads … ’ |
| 47 | I think I mean it was interesting cos someone said earlier about people coming in I mean once you get them in I mean I always feel it 's like the pantomime each year which is an amateur pantomime yet the actual people coming in to see that I mean it 's well in the ninety per cent 's and you talk to people when they come to see the pantomime and ver invariably the the mum 's or dad 's say no I do n't normally come to theatre but I come to the pantomime and they enjoy it very much and when you talk to them they can say well what you think of it ? |
| 48 | what we 're likely to be short of it seems to me we could end up being twenty four thousand pounds short at the end of the year . |
| 49 | If they 'd come straight to me we could have quietly got it done . |
| 50 | In the time available to me I shall answer as many as possible of the points that have been raised . |
| 51 | I can not stand it any longer , if someone does not come to me I will give up and be miserable for ever and perhaps go home of my own accord , write or wire to Uncle C. and say you are coming at once pleas darling , and come on Saturday or I will give up altogether and always wretched . |
| 52 | ‘ My life 's insured by the department , ’ he explains to Felicity , ‘ so that if anything happens to me you 'd get both a lump sum and a regular income . |
| 53 | Er , thank you Chair , for the opportunity to introduce the paper which I do briefly bearing in mind what I , I see are all the pressures on you which will go on into the afternoon . |
| 54 | At 78 he still refused to stop work : ‘ My advice to parents is not to give up to the rising generation the place you have occupied in the world so long , because there are some who are very near to you who would turn round and put you out homeless and penniless . ’ |
| 55 | I feared that without him I would batten down the hatches of the physical part of me and crawl back inside the shell which I had built around myself in the three years before he blew through my life . |
| 56 | Good , he thought , if I really work on her she 'll go away and leave me to it . |
| 57 | In itself it could mean nothing ; in regard to him it could mean only that he was mad . |
| 58 | The clue is , of course , that if Archer 's coat was powder-stained his killer must have been someone known to him who could get up that close in the deserted night street where he met his end . |
| 59 | If he thinks the doctors are giving up on him he 'll give up himself |
| 60 | ‘ I can also pick up music — without it I 'd go absolutely berserk . ’ |