Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb mod] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , most people do n't think much of Liverpool as a place to work and live in , though I think it 's fantastic and I live in greater style — in the wing of a large Victorian house — than I could in the South . |
| 2 | Believe it or not , it can wash ( and dry ) virtually everything to a better finish than you can in the sink . |
| 3 | If today we can see better than we could at the time the agonized grandeur of the figure of Pope Paul , the one almost ‘ liberal ’ pope of modern times , we can also see how deeply uncertain was the Church he left behind him and — after twelve years — we begin too to be able to assess in its very different character the pontificate of John Paul II . |
| 4 | There 's another public site at Hinksey Hill , which is very new , where they 've settled well , and there is about to be a private site out at Frilford , and that site will allow the Vale to be designated and that means that people who are encamped illegally in laybys and bridleways and grass verges can be moved on much more quickly than they can at the moment erm and if we 're not careful they 'll all be moving into West Oxfordshire . |
| 5 | The snag today is that those black sheep will create much bigger problems than they could in the past . |
| 6 | They can far more readily appreciate the meaning of the data relationships illustrated in a tabular form than they could in the file and record specification forms of conventional systems analysis . |
| 7 | The decision of the Divisional Court in the Manchester Corporation case is not binding on this court and , although it may in the event have reached a conclusion with which I would now agree , I find the reasoning by which that conclusion was reached wholly unconvincing . |
| 8 | An award of damages will no more be denied to a person vulnerable and predisposed to mental illness than it would to the victim of physical injury with an eggshell skull . |
| 9 | So maybe it took one minute more than it should as the crow flies . |
| 10 | The I 'm your representative for the minster governors and I 'll be slipping out later on this evening if I may of the installation of the new headteacher , that will be seven minutes time so if you 'll excuse me . |
| 11 | Erm I 'd like just to re remind the county if I could about the question I did put in my opening er remarks that er we would like some view from them as to whether if their if their strategic exceptions policy is n't er ultimately included in the structure plan they would object to the principle of us er pursuing this sort of approach through our local plan . |
| 12 | If you can post the letter |
| 13 | ‘ Believe it now because you will in the end , anyway , if you stay here long enough . ’ |
| 14 | Even a radical writer like Olive Schreiner appealed for women 's right to work , since it would in the end prove beneficial for the race , ‘ parasitical mothers ’ , she argued , produced ‘ softened sons ’ . |
| 15 | I ran away as fast as I could along the pavement . |
| 16 | ‘ If someone came and pinched my bum on the escalator I 'd k-i-c-k him as far as I could down the escalator , ’ Topaz responded with gusto . |
| 17 | I then severed the last piece of shaft as close as I could to the head , and again found nothing untoward . |
| 18 | And I walked as normally as I could into the playground , my private pain overcome for fear of discovery . |
| 19 | I watched the distant cloud from the explosion drift away over the firth , dispersing , then I turned and ran as fast as I could for the house . |
| 20 | So just at the last moment as the ladder began to sweep that way I just pushed as er hard as I could in the air , and the wardrobe flew up into the air in that direction , the ladder flew off in that direction , I flew off in this direction |
| 21 | ‘ I want to get as high as I am able to , and to contribute as much as I can to the team . |
| 22 | I run fast as I can at the window , but it still wo n't break . |
| 23 | So you make er you know we 've my I would have explained as much as I can on the phone exactly how we operate . |
| 24 | MH : I get over as soon as I can in the morning and work here all day . |
| 25 | ‘ I still enjoy scoring and I 'll try to do it as much as I can from the middle . |
| 26 | and that it was er er obviously going to be a cost-effective exercise to do it there and then , and er you both er canvassed as many councillors as you could at the time , all the committee Chairmen were , were involved , I do n't see that you could have done any more in the circumstances . |
| 27 | Find out as much as you can about the school . |
| 28 | Find out as much as you can about the firm you decide on . |
| 29 | — Be as precise as you can about the role the video recording is intended to have in the teaching programme . |
| 30 | Get as many as you can for the trade figures . |