Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group I talked to could only recall one prisoner escaping in recent years ; he had been shot during his escape and even then was not recaptured . |
| 2 | Changing between the 0.10 gauge sets that you refer to should not cause any problems ; the first set has a heavy top and light bottom and vice versa for the other , and the difference in tension and playability would probably be too small to notice . |
| 3 | While I can see that the woman you wrote about may well have deserved what she got — your report says the little girl was badly bruised — I do think we have to be wary of going to extremes . |
| 4 | I seem to be able to do the thing that she ca n't do ; that Pat ca n't do ; that the women she works with ca n't do : control my weight , my body , my self . |
| 5 | The first thing to realise is that anyone who comes to visit you because they want to will not care — and probably will not notice — if your home is not perfect . |
| 6 | Opening a brewery at a time when Britain 's drinkers are supping less beer than they used to might not seem like a good idea . |
| 7 | — Chinese traders when asked by the Romans what country they came from should really have replied ‘ Chung-kuo ’ ( Middle Kingdom ) . |
| 8 | The shop they went into would n't have anything to do with it though . |
| 9 | Bradshaw and Millar estimate that up to 70 per cent of lone mothers could be employed if all who said they wanted to could immediately get jobs and child care . |
| 10 | The account should have the login flags CAPTIVE , DISCTLY and DEFCLI set , and the command procedure which it logs into should only give the account read access by virtue of the SYSPRV privilege ( so that the user can not edit the command procedure after executing the break-out ) . |