Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must therefore resist any temptation to read a book on doubt like a medical dictionary , or before long we may convince ourselves that we are suffering from every variety of doubt . |
| 2 | I think , I think a shop , if you look at from the shop 's point of view erm I think it is quite understandable and natural that they would , they would either like a receipt or at least they would like to see some evi |
| 3 | The pilot of the future will fly by the flick of her Macintosh mouse — or at least she will gain access to vital information she needs by that means , following that agreement between Apple Computer Inc and Honeywell Inc 's Minneapolis-based Honeywell Air Transport Systems Division . |
| 4 | It was a macabre sight , strongly reminiscent of a scene from a TV western — or at least it would have been . |
| 5 | Or at least it will go for twenty quid in the end if he does n't buy it . |
| 6 | And on a good night the stars would seem to brighten ; if you looked up it was like a clear winter 's night in the city , one of those nights when you find yourself on a dark street , one without streetlamps , and for once you can see that the stars have different colours ; they are like still fireworks . |
| 7 | Figure 8 shows the Utilities Screen and from here you can choose and run a variety of the helpful programs available in DOS5 . |
| 8 | Erm what will happen is that we will er hopefully at this meeting er set a budgetary , budgetary position within the guidelines required by the policy committee and then that will go forward together with all the other service committees to the policy committee on the twenty seventh of January and from then we will go on to the County Council on the fifteenth of February . |
| 9 | That 's the sort of the general trend erm and from there we can go on to other things . |
| 10 | We 'll start down at the far end of what we call the lured mark and from there you 'll have to tack all the way up to this closest one , the windward mark . |
| 11 | The bell tower is the highest building in the city , and from there you 'll see a carpet of red-roofed houses rolled out below you . |
| 12 | These , like the basic set , begin with instructions for all these lovely patterns in the basic state and from there you can run through a gamut of colour alteration , tension experiments and striped treatments . |
| 13 | And from there he would rattle back to Wimbledon and his wife of twenty years . |
| 14 | ‘ I used to go and play basketball at this gymnasium , ’ recalls Randy , as though it were only yesterday , ‘ and from there I 'd go over to this drummer 's house and we 'd jam . ’ |
| 15 | He would have to wait , and until then he would keep as close as he could to the Russian . |
| 16 | To give all his players better club conditions he persuaded his directors to spend money on improving dressing and recreation rooms , and before long he could boast that the Town 's facilities were the best in the country . |
| 17 | He conducts great concerts , and before long he will make the lame walk — and then he does just a good concert and people are disappointed . |
| 18 | But that calculation had gone up in smoke with the original letter , and since then she must have bitterly regretted her rashness . |
| 19 | And also there 's my business card and on there you 'll see that you 've got a contact number |
| 20 | And at once I could do it . ’ |
| 21 | And at once I could smell it on the tied-on head-cushion — that same elusive , old-fashioned perfume of the towel , of the glove . |
| 22 | Unwisely , I let Dana see my drafts of these poems , and at once I could sense his disapproval , his jealousy even , that I had written the poems myself . |
| 23 | But it was kind of him to have organised this — and at least they would command a good view of the bridge . |
| 24 | And at least we 'll find the girls ' car because according to what one can make out of her statement , they were removed from it somewhere on the road between here and Taverna yesterday morning … ’ |
| 25 | We are a proud nation and at least we should have been put on stand-by . ’ |
| 26 | I do n't mind that and at least she 'll have a shortish coat wo n't she ? |
| 27 | And at least he could rely on Freeborn to answer it without initiating a philosophical discussion about the basis of the self . |
| 28 | Tourists navigated with resigned expressions : this was Holiday and at least you could understand the lingo . |
| 29 | I think they should get rid of the stigma in condoms , cos what frightens me is that in about ten years time my daughter will come and maybe ask if she can go on the pill and at least I can tell her no , use a condom there 's less chance of sexually transmitted diseases , but it 's my sons they wo n't come and ask . |
| 30 | And at least I can sleep at night . ’ |