Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he crossed the Glen it would be in his own good time , and with an eye to what prizes were left alive for the taking , and for them he would fight as doughtily as any man if he must . |
| 2 | Despite the outcome of the final , my message to Will and the boys is thanks for the memories ; for me they will live forever , and I will have great pleasure in years to come to say ‘ I was there ’ , not ‘ I was embarrassed ’ . |
| 3 | Mind you they 'd probably get a hundred thousand for theirs I should think now . |
| 4 | I could name at least three of my friends who would have been prompt to offer this undeniably attractive young man a doss down on the sofa , and one of them who would have already been thinking of taking him upstairs for the night … |
| 5 | If she married one of them she could look forward to a life of uncertainty , warfare , shortages , assassinations , massacres and tragedy . |
| 6 | I would have liked to have checked at once on the state of the horses , but I supposed if there were something wrong with any of them I would hear soon enough . |
| 7 | Anyway , thank you all very much , er some of you we will see again tomorrow , ten o'clock . |
| 8 | See you just start off by going through them one by one and consider what point is being made in each and those of you who 'd like just to move round and join these two ladies . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know whether you 're one of those who are interested in such things — from what I know of you I 'd say probably not . |
| 10 | ‘ By the look of it I would think so . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 12 | if I have to wait for you I 'll wait forever cos your eggs are not done |
| 13 | People like me I can get away with it , I get |
| 14 | With them you can buy just about whatever your little capitalist heart desires . |
| 15 | If plants have anything wrong with them it may have already been there when they were obtained , or it is a sign that they are not being grown in the right conditions . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | If something happens at the school or to someone associated with it which may reflect badly give facts but no opinions . |
| 18 | By the time we finish with it we shall have just scratched the surface of the subject . |
| 19 | ‘ And if he 's thinking he 'll be getting away with it he can think again ! |
| 20 | But if he thought he could get away with it he could think again ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In it you 'll find more fun and thrill rides than any other amusement park in Europe . |
| 25 | Probably she 'll be so wrapped up in it she 'll feel differently . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ But without them it will look much better , I promise , and if we take out these awful shoulder-pads … ’ |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | If they 'd come straight to me we could have quietly got it done . |
| 30 | In the time available to me I shall answer as many as possible of the points that have been raised . |