Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , though , we do in society have erm all sorts of erm apparatuses and institutions , not necessarily for reconciling different evaluations , but for co-ordinating them I would say . |
| 2 | For the latter , I usually talk people through the fact that after saying it we will clap our hands , stamp our feet , scratch our ears and finally shout hooray . |
| 3 | After asking what they would like to drink , Vitor provided cut-crystal glasses of vinho verde , but his duties as host quickly took him away to pour refills and greet other arrivals . |
| 4 | After gorging itself it would lie down and go into a digestive torpor , and could alternately eat and doze over a period of several weeks . |
| 5 | Well , Chair , erm , most of my money is under the Resources Management sub-committee , erm , that has been very thoroughly examined , I think the Resources P A G have agreed with me , on the other P A G , and John has written that on to search for saving what I would say , over and above the call of duty . |
| 6 | His blond head dipped briefly , as he refused her the possibility of completing what he must have guessed would have been a remonstrative retort . |
| 7 | Like the politics of the miners which seamed through the talk of his brothers , never as vivid as the ‘ stories ’ but always there , those early films provided him with examples of acting which he must have absorbed willy-nilly . |
| 8 | And when the all clear sounded , even though the realization that she had survived yet another night sent relief singing through her , there was the agony of wondering what she would find when she returned to Lyra Street . |
| 9 | Erm and of initial like instead of saying them they 'd say just say em . |
| 10 | Yet her household , instead of doing what they might to ease her last days , were not merely neglectful , but downright cruel . |
| 11 | As well as making quick botch jobs of things that need careful repair if they are not to fall apart again next week , teachers , when they confront the impossibility of doing everything they ought to do head on , are faced with making some very tough priority decisions . |
| 12 | ‘ I said , ‘ So you 're going there with no back-up , no weapon , no way of knowing what he 'll do ’ — something like that . ’ |
| 13 | I think he got confident of knowing what he could do . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've no way of knowing what she must bear , we 've no burdens like hers . ’ |
| 15 | The electrical information is recovered , and by the process of decoding it he can determine the amount of emotional stress in actual figures based on the levels of the electrical impulses picked up from the subjects . |
| 16 | Then he wondered if he was capable of putting what he must have heard to some use . |
| 17 | Instead of carding someone he 'll put his arm round her and say Do n't ! |
| 18 | Of course , the rival may fight back , but the point is not that this type of calculation ensures a successful barrier to entry , but that it provides a way of assessing what it will cost the rival to surmount the barrier to attain cost leadership . |
| 19 | But I am convinced — from what I have seen and what my commonsense tells me — that more often than not they simply tilt towards the bait at a slight angle and suck it to their lips from distances up to nine inches , a process of vacuuming which they may repeat several times before attempting to swallow the bait . |
| 20 | Now this comes into sort of preparing what you ought to have ready when you 're about to make your will . |
| 21 | No doubt it amused him , but although he did n't laugh outright he took this way of telling her she could forget it . |
| 22 | ‘ What a pity your father is so set against accepting what he might consider to be charity from Tamar . |
| 23 | You tell me what you 'd like to eat exactly in future and if I feel like doing it I 'll do it . |
| 24 | You tell me what you 'd like to eat exactly in future and if I feel like doing it I 'll do it . |
| 25 | And if I do n't feel like doing it you can do something yourself . |
| 26 | And if I do n't feel like doing it you can do something yourself . |
| 27 | You must avoid negative study habits — like telling yourself you 'll begin that essay when you 've taken notes from one more book . |
| 28 | Christina felt like telling her she would look beautiful in a torn sack , but decided she was going to hear comments like that all her life . |
| 29 | Erm and if we then find money for printing it I would approach Barclays Bank , banks , local banks and would it do it very modestly the same local the same style er and only hand it out to places where people are likely to pick it up . |
| 30 | You 're continuously working round and taking people off doing what they ought to do simply to move things around and you , you 've talked of that . |