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 | Between them they will pick up an aggregate £1.9m to cover early termination of their service agreements . |
| 3 | Then you can write a piece for me which will point out the problems , without declaring that they are insoluble short of a social revolution . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ When I left it was open ended so that if things did not work out for me I could go back to playing Charlene . |
| 6 | " If you 'll nobbut stop runnin' after 'em they 'll settle down . |
| 7 | Mind you they 'd probably get a hundred thousand for theirs I should think now . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | If she married one of them she could look forward to a life of uncertainty , warfare , shortages , assassinations , massacres and tragedy . |
| 10 | The curving windows at the stern are freckled with spray ; through one of them you can make out a set of fat capstans and a listless macaroni of sodden rope . |
| 11 | So some of them you can work out buy if you know what a transformer does , it steps down all of the current , it reduces the voltage . |
| 12 | Exercise 1 : Try playing the children 's party game where you spend two minutes looking at an assortment of small items on a tray , then cover them with a cloth and see how many of them you can write down . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Anyway , thank you all very much , er some of you we will see again tomorrow , ten o'clock . |
| 15 | And I would dare those of you who would look up the newspaper clippings of that occasion and challenge that view , because you would find a much different reading in those newspaper clips than what I learnt many years later , trudging round the island , Personally I thought that I was being particularly clever bombing a seaplane that was taking off , It was only when I was serving on Sylt in the fifties that I learned that this was in fact a tug ( or you might call it a barge , a sea-going barge ) on the end of 100 metres of line , that was being towed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ By the look of it I would think so . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | If the before I come to go past it he would cut back in and and climb across even if if the next car then back in again you 're just going , you start out of line |
| 21 | So while he 's looking for you somebody could run out and kick the tin , there you go and fetch him , and if he 'd caught anybody and when you kicked that tin the other , well you could all go and hide . |
| 22 | if I have to wait for you I 'll wait forever cos your eggs are not done |
| 23 | You never know , through you I might found out the mistakes I made . ’ |
| 24 | People like me I can get away with it , I get |
| 25 | Underneath them I 'll write down what to do . |
| 26 | If Lexy was another like her it might explain why she was willing to accept such cavalier treatment . |
| 27 | With them you can buy just about whatever your little capitalist heart desires . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | and then if that 's okay with you I 'll come back in about two weeks ' time and |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |