Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person 's kept himself out of trouble so is it really right for us to get him back before the courts again ? |
| 2 | It would be possible for him to wear her down , so she must be ultra-careful and protect herself . |
| 3 | If the patient had hobbies before his stroke or head injury , such as drawing , painting or needlepoint , you should try to make it possible for him to take them up again . |
| 4 | And er I always remember the lawyer who was acting on behalf of the union er said to these blacklegs , How would it be possible for you to see it though your window who was throwing the bricks seeing that the windows are so black and filthy you ca n't see the curtains that 's hanging up from the outside ? |
| 5 | BELVILLE : Do you think it is possible for you to love me preferably to any other of my sex ? |
| 6 | She was right about them letting me out . |
| 7 | and as you do n't have anything to do with the decorating anyway I do n't know what you 're peeved about you like it before and then you like it after , and you 're quite content to let me do the bit in the middle . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , their energies nowadays would be too low for us to observe them directly . |
| 9 | I do n't remember his words now and it would be ethically wrong for me to make them up , but he began to tell me that there was something in my lung . |
| 10 | It is going to be nine and a half times the footprint of Hambleton three and a half times the footprint of Brayton Bath it will tower in its mass beside them and it is totally unreasonable and wrong for anybody to describe it as merely of local concern . |
| 11 | This can be a somewhat daunting document , but it would be unrealistic for us to simplify it too much . |
| 12 | I happen to know it but I think it would be wrong of me to disclose it tonight er this evening . |
| 13 | ‘ And it was wrong of me to reject it out of hand . |
| 14 | How wrong of you to bring me away from the main road ! |
| 15 | It was generous of them to ask her along , she did n't deny . |
| 16 | Come Epiphany , she had grown too fond of them to take them down . |
| 17 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 18 | If it is impossible for you to release them there make sure they are given their freedom in an area with abundant supplies of nectar . |
| 19 | I am not arguing therefore that metaphors should not change , but that it is impossible for us to change them organically unless we understand them in the first place . |
| 20 | It was impossible for us to pay her direct debit whether it was 25p or £25 overdrawn . |
| 21 | It would have been easy for him to take it off . |
| 22 | ‘ How clever of you to work it out . |
| 23 | ‘ Damian , it was so clever of you to bring us here ! ’ |
| 24 | Margaret had n't found the glamour she 'd sought and Campion , my father , was bored by her following him around . |
| 25 | For though it is hard for us to credit it now , many people believed that if you travelled faster than — say — 30 miles an hour , you might actually burst and be scattered across the railway lines . |
| 26 | But it must be tiresome for him to have you constantly tagging at his heels all the time . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Then I would like it fine for you to advise me how I am to repaint my ceilings , Doctor ! |
| 28 | Adamus , it is unfair of you to shut me out . |
| 29 | You are not conscious of them weighing you up , but they do . |
| 30 | So far she had gained the distinct impression that being angry and obnoxious with her suited him just fine — he positively revelled in deriding her at every opportunity . |