Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [adv] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 If they walk in there they 'd get a right haul , they 'd have the lot .
2 Otherwise it get 's sore , but then every time I walk in there I can see every joint a lot better .
3 ‘ Aah thowt as 'ow 'e 'd 'ave more sense . ’
4 ‘ You bloody well get in here and swim to where you can stand up . ’
5 So assess your finances , look at where you can make cuts in expenses .
6 Look at where you can make money .
7 Let's first examine how we can generate and use dramatic tension , and then look at how we might teach narrative .
8 ‘ In other words we look at how we should work together to get things done rather than the technical details of the task , ’ she added .
9 Our lives are miserable as we remember times when we might have been kinder , we might have been more loving , less impatient .
10 We talk of somewheres we 'll go sometime As
11 But those involved in entente floral feel at least they would have had a fighting chance of clinching the title .
12 birthday but they wo n't if you go in there they might give you a bag .
13 now he passed that on , that had , sort of knowledge on through the people in the shop okay , if you , soon as that link gets broken and you go into a shop something like erm Burtons okay , big retail shop like Burtons , you go in there you 'll have a manager in there and assistants and so on , but their background knowledge has nothing to do with tailoring , nothing at all
14 no you 'd have to get all out and have a look , but I mean if I go over there I 'll bring back a load of D K and I know I will we 'll see .
15 You had this lump of rock that you dangled from a thread and people discovered that it always pointed in the same direction , so if you were on board , a ship for the first time people were able to travel in a ship without having to hug a coast all the way across or navigate to where they could see .
16 If you can put yourself in the other person 's shoes and think about how they might feel , it will certainly help if you let them know that .
17 Assuming , again for simplicity , that both species reproduce asexually , think about how they might evolve .
18 Think about how you could have foreseen them .
19 Think about how you could say who you are .
20 What I 'd like you to do just for the last ten minutes is to think of a member of staff you have who has a training need and think about how you will go about training them and the methods that you will use .
21 Think about how you will read the story aloud so that your listener will find it interesting and amusing .
22 I think about how I could get dressed up and go out somewhere , for a couple of hours , and just leave it all , because I get so sick of it sometimes …
23 Now think about how she might solve this problem :
24 Think of where we would have been without nurses during the war . ’
25 If you tried to plot that against Think of how you 'd do it if you had a graph and you plotted Y against three X squared plus two .
26 oh I love to maybe he 'll shout
27 I mean if this had all sort of come before left we 'd have got it through no problem
28 Like , when they come in here I 'll bring them down to the canteen and let them have Coke and sweets .
29 It has the softest of summer zephyrs blowing across its fields and hillsides ; swift and rumbling waters break through forest and plain ; and mountain heights rise to where they can gather the island 's mists to their crowns .
30 If we are serious in our intent to protect the children we care for then we must attempt to ‘ treat ’ the root cause of abuse rather than the symptoms , as Mr Pringle appears to suggest .
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