Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was afraid of how he might react if he confronted Zoe now . |
| 2 | ‘ The theme of the story was that something very sinister had happened a long time ago which had left the planet looking entirely different from anywhere you could see on Earth . |
| 3 | interested in so we 'll say excuse me to Martin . |
| 4 | I 'm not interested in abstractions , I 'm interested in how you can use theory and who it 's for and for what purpose . |
| 5 | So the very thing that was supposed to wake them up , the noise of the alarm bell , was turned in the dream into a wishful of now I can go on sleeping , okay there 's a bell , but it 's Sunday morning , you know , the bells are ringing , the church bells are ringing , I can go on sleeping , so they went on sleeping and they were late for the exam . |
| 6 | In the pub , beer glass in hand , he waxed lyrical about how he would spend his earnings . |
| 7 | To her it was indicative of how he 'd come to view their relationship . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , very few people will appreciate just how much time , effort and sheer innovative thinking has gone into making the engine look similar to how it would look had we merely pressure washed the outside and mounted it for display . |
| 9 | We felt this was important and valuable for otherwise she would have been so much in the company of adults . |
| 10 | Three visits from her husband had helped , perhaps ( the first in the small hours of the Sunday morning , two hours after his release from custody ) , but some slight complications had arisen with continued internal bleeding , and she had become deeply and embarrassingly conscious of how she must appear to everyone whenever she smiled . |
| 11 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 12 | Your Board has also , of course , looked very hard at how it would ensure we maintain the present secure and friendly image of Abbey National . |
| 13 | If they can get me down in black and white at least I 'll have my say , ’ he said . |
| 14 | He was curious about how she would react — had she just given it out of social politeness , or had she meant it ? |
| 15 | I am not confident about how I should take the hon. Gentleman 's concluding remarks , but I shall bear with equanimity what I suspect may be a poisoned chalice . |
| 16 | The magazines that are out today are very informative of where you can get the addresses of places to go , they give both sides of homosexuality you know , male and female as far I 've seen , and definitely in the past two years or so . |
| 17 | It was as easy as anything , and for a long time I , I felt well at least I can get in that way and then I thought oh maybe I should , you know doing , doing anything about it , but now I always go out of the other door |
| 18 | He 's probably tired by now I should think . |
| 19 | Asked about the possibility of economic difficulties , she was concerned about how they would manage : ‘ The new government does not know where to begin with the economy , which is in a shambles . |
| 20 | Staff are concerned about how they should get themselves ready for change . |
| 21 | Employees are likely to be concerned about how they will fit back into the system on returning from an overseas contract . |
| 22 | Well while we were all delighted about the tremendous increase in income two years ago we were also a little concerned about how we should hold on to it , but we have . |
| 23 | Despite the introduction of the ESL , the EC was concerned about how it would collect its statistics relating to the movement of goods among member states when internal frontiers came down . |
| 24 | This section is concerned with how you can achieve that expansion . |
| 25 | The only encouraging news for the government contained within the opinion polls was that a sizable proportion of the electorate — up to 50 per cent in some key marginal constituencies — remained undecided on how they would vote . |
| 26 | To change from clockwise to anticlockwise it must go through a third dimension to become a mirror image . |
| 27 | That 's why it 's impossible to be prescriptive about how you should allocate your own time — and that 's why it 's essential that you learn how best to manage your time for yourself . |
| 28 | Mum and Dad were worried about how I would cope , but Clare said everything would be all right . |
| 29 | Peter Upton , principal of Colne High School , Brightlingsea , is not against the scheme , but is worried about how it will work : ‘ When we measure these new levels are we raising the standards or are we lowering them ? |
| 30 | I was very worried about how he would cope because of the different surfaces of the road . |