Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've always voted conservative but I feel they 've made such a mess of everything I 'll vote for someone different this time . |
| 2 | I wish you 'd think of something you would like for your birthday . |
| 3 | I wish you would think of something you would like for your birthday |
| 4 | Russian designers have certainly taken advantage of anything they could learn from the West . |
| 5 | ‘ The characters are like someone you would meet in the street , although they tend to be a bit more romantic . |
| 6 | You can look forward to some sort of land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of a view and , let's face it , the mountain will still be there when you come back . |
| 7 | That is unless it 's sold to the sort of person who blasts half of his land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of on the west coast . |
| 8 | By sailing along behind someone you can act as a human video and when your partner has finished his run you can mimic what he was doing . |
| 9 | The basic beginners ' board , like one you 'd find in a windsurfing school , is a hardy beast with excellent stability and durability . |
| 10 | ‘ Let's think about it some more — but it sounds like something we could go for . ’ |
| 11 | It looked like something you might see in a photograph of black New Orleans in the thirties . |
| 12 | The flickering patterns of the light made her face seem insubstantial ; like something you might glimpse in a dream but which , when you came closer or held a clear light up to see it better , would fade or change back to its true form . |
| 13 | The man who had severed his traditional local ties to live in the impersonal and anonymous city searched for something he could identify with , for new loyalties and attachments . |
| 14 | He discussed any issue , and particularly this one , with everyone he could think of and he continued to show throughout his political career an indecision that in some directions had dire consequences . |
| 15 | Therefore it is only natural for the sponsors to indulge in a little nepotism and provide its Japanese audience with somebody they can identify with while they are enjoying a nightcap . |
| 16 | As we loaded up the trucks with everything we would need for our month away at Canjuers I felt that we might be about to learn some soldiering . |
| 17 | They built this vast Gothic castle , a sort of Highland fortress , only gargantuan , and filled it with everything they could think of , to show off . |
| 18 | The spacious boot coped admirably with everything they could cram into it in one week — picnic hampers , the weekly shopping , even the latest buys from Sue 's visits to the garden centre . |
| 19 | By day it 's very much a ‘ let's get a sunlounger and lie on the sand ’ sort of resort and the sandy beach is well equipped with everything you 'll need in the way of bars , restaurants and shade , and there are several places to waterski , windsurf and parascend or try your hand on the wet bikes . |
| 20 | This is a lively , swinging hotel with everything you could need for a holiday to remember . |
| 21 | She kind of wore it with everything she could think of I think that would go . |
| 22 | It is in this prayerful meditation that mystics say that they receive an illumination of the reality of God over and above anything they can reach by their own efforts . |
| 23 | Erlich had offered to help them with anything they might shout for , and he had been turned down . |
| 24 | ‘ If I 'm to talk to Evelyn Lennox , ’ he said calmly , ‘ I need to brief myself in advance with anything she might throw at me . ’ |
| 25 | into anything it must come from something . |
| 26 | And we protested , writing letters to everyone we could think of . |
| 27 | They fought over everything they could think of to fight over they were really niggly ! |
| 28 | One of these , Bernard Levin , memorably described a visit to Evita as " one ofthe most disagreeable evenings I have ever spent in my life , in or out of the theatre " , and " Do n't cry for me , Argentina " as a somewhat inferior melody to one he would hear as a boy , improvised on the saxophone by a busker outside the Albert Hall with only three fingers on his left hand . |
| 29 | The outer stood up to everything I could throw at it until a wicked Gogarth chimney thrutch resulted in a nicked sleeve , while the fleece has resisted all but a hot cylinder from the Snowdon Railway ! |
| 30 | Christians , too , look to Abraham as the father of all those who depend in faith on God rather than on anything they can do for themselves ( see Romans 4:16 ) . |