Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | It could be argued that they might help to identify him , but it was felt that they might relate to another crime and that if we started talking about them it might put whoever was responsible on his guard . |
2 | If there is any justification in using them , it 's not that they accurately reproduce the eighteenth century , but that through them we can clear our way back to it through all the nineteenth-century ironmongery put in our way by what , musically , I regard as a particularly corrupting and polluting century . |
3 | Erm if it 's if you 're desperate for them we can rush it in |
4 | If only for them I 'll do it . |
5 | If it means business for them I should think they should want to do more . |
6 | If it did it for them it can do it for me ! ’ |
7 | He is confident that between them they can do their bit towards the deciding Test in a gripping series with Pakistan ‘ being remembered for the right reasons . ’ |
8 | It was marvellous when he rang , but since I ca n't have him ringing here again , I told him , in a moment of my feelings getting the better of me , that if he does have any message for me he could contact you , and you 'd pass it on . |
9 | Would you like to go and sort the books out for me I 'll give you a ticket . |
10 | If you can get an Aliens three poster for me I 'll pay you for it . |
11 | do n't worry about something for me I 'll have what anybody else has |
12 | And if you work for me you 'll take it seriously . |
13 | ‘ If you come after me I 'll do something to prevent you . ’ |
14 | cos I says if he looks after it I 'll buy him one with radio on as well |
15 | If he knew of them he would have them destroyed at once , and I do n't want that to happen . ’ |
16 | Since I 'm obviously the cause of them I 'll do my best to keep out of your way . ’ |
17 | I mean normally I do n't bother with the tokens , I mean I Anyway I paid the cheque and I said to Peter I said oh by the way what about me tokens for me for me toy I said if I get a free one of them I can give it to give it to the grandchildren . |
18 | Ooh great a , a lot of politic this is what I say they were , when I think of them I can remember them , even as , as a young girl and you know remember them they were all very , very er they were only just the average working woman er I do n't think , we had got , there again we 'd got an extremely good , they 'd got an extremely good secretary , a well-educated woman erm and er the whole family was involved and it was one of their family was went on to be an M P . |
19 | Now I 'm preaching to the converted here in terms of you you 'll appreciate we need copy . |
20 | The rest of you I 'll see you in the morning at ten o'clock . |
21 | Shifting her belongings more comfortably in his arms , he explained mildly , ‘ I told him that if he ever came within one hundred yards of you I 'd break his neck . |
22 | Well , judging by the looks of her I 'd put her at about fifteen , Vi , so get rid of her . |
23 | And er then at the end of it we 'll talk it through . |
24 | His central idea , the ultimate negation of the will to live , … ( offers ) the only salvation possible " — and turning to his own artistic activities , present and prospective , he added , " I have in my head Tristan und Isolde … ; with the " black flag " that flutters at the end of it I shall shroud myself to die . " |
25 | I used to listen to other children describing holidays in Bournemouth or Butlin 's or Benidorm , and not wanting to feel out of it I used to invent mine because I had never been anywhere ! |
26 | If you want to make a fight of it I should warn you that they were not his to give . |
27 | From the sound of it he 'd blow you away without a second thought . |
28 | That 's right and put your paddle in that and you scull you had to come down every time and many a time people 'd learn that that paddle will come out , but once you got the knack of it you could do it one hand , cos you was cutting down all the time like that 's what it was . |
29 | I mean there 's , there 's the practical side of actually having , I mean well there 's various aspects of it you could have someone as a figurehead |
30 | Come to think of it you could call anyone by a name which is not their own and make them sound stupid . |