Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it one where you have to keep it with you ? |
| 2 | This mourning cleanses us of our false expectations and superficialities , where we try to flatten everything into a manageable world in which we are in charge . |
| 3 | Many of the cases , such as Seager v Copydex ( 1967 ) 1 WLR 923 , concerned actual or threatened breaches by ex-employees in relation to information given to them by their former employers , and where they wanted to exploit it to their own benefit . |
| 4 | She 's a friend of Bertice Reading , who is working at the Prince of Wales Theatre , so I arranged to meet her at the stage door at 2 o'clock . |
| 5 | It would have been a foolish , bull-necked man who would have looked a gift horse in the mouth … so I like to see myself in a small way as following in his footsteps . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm one of those people who can eat and drink what I like and not put on weight , so I had to do it by weight training and build up the muscle weight , ’ he adds . |
| 7 | I was very hungry so I began to eat something at once . |
| 8 | I then could nt bear to listen to the radio for the rest of the half , so I decided to occupy myself for 40 mins . |
| 9 | He is n't here , so I have to take you to the hotel myself . |
| 10 | And one other thing : when I take my three-year-old daughter out , the child seat gets pushed sideways by the back-seat cushion , so I have to straighten it by putting a book under it . ’ |
| 11 | The usual stratagems and repositionings have failed to induce narcosis in me , so I decide to settle myself against the soft zigzag of her body . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not a child , you know , although you seem to treat me like one . |
| 13 | He tipped up her chin so she had to look him in the eyes but she pulled her face away . |
| 14 | Erm I think it 's important to recognize in rail terms that erm the east coast main line , erm particularly obviously er the section heading north , British Rail would not allow er a new station opening on the east coast main line , so you have to confine yourselves to looking at those which have a a regional railway route . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ It 's lonely being a long way ahead so you have to get youself into a cocoon to protect yourself from the thoughts that can trouble your mind . ’ |
| 16 | Because you will not have it accepted if it is not in the house style , and there are conventions , appropriate , and quite different , according to the magazine , the newspaper , and so on and so forth , so you need to acquaint yourself with the house style . |
| 17 | This wo n't tell you where they would make a mistake if they tried to spell it themselves ; so you need to add it to the collection of words from writing as in Method 1 . |
| 18 | The job will take some hours and you will be without hot water while you are doing it , so you need to have everything to hand before starting . |
| 19 | And at the sewage treatment works And this again is on the syllabus folks , so you need to bear it in mind , The sewage works , they make use of both sorts of bacteria . |
| 20 | This is very important because once you start to perceive yourself in negative terms you will probably start to act in a negative way , being quarrelsome and finally looking to food for comfort . |
| 21 | After work the same evening , my husband and I walked all over the golf course and were eventually rewarded by spotting the dog in the distance , although we failed to coax her towards us . |
| 22 | Because we forgot to do , we forgot to do the spelling test last Friday , so we had to do it on Monday so we did n't get any spelling this week , so right now we did n't have a spelling test , this is brilliant , guess what we do now ? |
| 23 | The problem , of course , is most of us could n't give a sensible reply to the very searching questions they ask , so we tend to say something like ‘ that 's a fascinating questions , but you 'll have to wait till you 're older and ask a scientist ’ . |
| 24 | The problem , of course , is most of us could n't give a sensible reply to the very searching questions they ask , so we tend to say something like ‘ that 's a fascinating questions , but you 'll have to wait till you 're older and ask a scientist ’ . |
| 25 | They 've now taken the ramps out , which is a breach of the planning condition again , so we intend to pursue them on that , and they are offering , believe it or not that disabled people can be taxied from one side of the station to the other side of the station . |
| 26 | Now you rea fo w with a story like this you really need a erm a , a decent does of antibiotics and given the of the unpleasant taste and the pus you can see , ordinary penicillin probably wo n't do the trick , so we need to use something with a bit more oomph |
| 27 | These people have spiritual needs as real as ours are , so we need to ask ourselves in this parish what are we doing to help them ? |
| 28 | Jesus , it was awful , and the worst thing about it was , when we arrived the baby was still warm , so we tried to revive it with mouth to mouth . |
| 29 | We can distinguish sceptical arguments which , although they attempt to deprive us of knowledge ( or even of justified belief ) still allow that we understand the propositions whose truth we are no longer allowed to know , from those which claim that the reason why we do n't know their truth is that we can not understand them . |
| 30 | So I said to the bloke in the shop have you got some shoes he can put , so they had to do it with his trainers on , but he 's made them extra long cos he 's trainer 's is that much bulkier , so er , I said to , he ca n't do it . |