Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [conj] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It was a tense moment for everyone because he could n't control where he landed or his speed .
2 Many of us find it difficult to have faith and trust and feel love for someone that we can not see and often feel that we can not hear or get close to .
3 This profitability is maintained by a balancing act ; the fundamental chemical industry balance summed up in the fact that if you want to get the utmost out of sodium chloride , you should n't have either sodium or chlorine left over unsold at the end of the day ; not much use increasing the use of one if you ca n't increase use of the other in proportion .
4 Her curious visage reminded him of something but he could not think what .
5 It is obviously every bit as important to respect the wild flowers in a foreign country as it is in one 's own , and not to pick large quantities of anything as you will only need a few pieces to create a floral souvenir of your trip .
6 No no , there are natural , we always have a strong preference for something but we can actually develop them , just like management style we have a strong preference for , for one style but it is something that we can learn can get more and try and rationale sort of like theoretical we can try and rationalize what 's perhaps happening is that in situations when we 're not gaining a lot and it could be that it 's because it 's had a lot of activity and we can actually gain more from it we can rationalize it and analyze it .
7 Oh we did send for something but I ca n't remember what .
8 You can make pleas for extra schemes but if you do so I could only suggest that you also accompany it with one that you would rather er is not done , so there are actually replacements rather than additions .
9 ‘ It 's certainly true that if people suggest they will go to the appeal procedure then we will do almost everything we can to avoid that , which means in some cases we 're letting people get away with something that you would n't let others get away with , simply because they 're being difficult — well , not being difficult , they would be just exercising their rights . ’
10 a so and so , er maths is crap and so on and you know , that 's that 's going to make this into something that we would n't want
11 we are not dealing with anything that we can not
12 He tried to tackle Gina about it , hinting that a young man like him needed sex from someone if he could n't get it at home .
13 well I think they 're expensive car now apart from anything and I would n't make it , take
14 ‘ I was Ronni to everyone before I could even walk . ’
15 That person is a menace to everyone but he may well think that , in a few hours ' time , he 'll be back to normal and no harm will be done .
16 ‘ At the time I was convinced it was an allergic reaction to something because I could n't believe I could be suffering from acne at my age ’ .
17 But when you get to one where you ca n't do it in your head you 've got to go back to this bit .
18 I flash on something but I ca n't think what it is ; something empty , something white .
19 Morally , that is a vastly superior case to the one produced by the Government — and , alas , supported to some degree by the Opposition Front Bench — who say that we should fritter our resources so massively on something that we could never use .
20 I would recommend it to anyone and I ca n't thank you enough . ’
21 There are passages in this book which are curiously enigmatic or coy ; but I 'd recommend it to anyone and I 'd freely tell them about Dennis that he 's a good old boy , a sound socialist , a grassroots climbers .
22 They will know that their maturing children need not be committed to anything that they will not be free to abandon in later life if they so wish .
23 It wo n't be worth anything because it wo n't have meant anything to you .
24 But as a political shibboleth it was raised to all-powerful heights and was used as a battering-ram to silence any suggestion by anybody that one might ever spend more on anything even if the aim of spending more immediately was to spend less later .
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