Example sentences of "[subord] [indef pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or they came by something where somebody turned up in a little van that was n't a Post Office van and I had to sign . |
| 2 | I have always liked to read the Golden Age detective stories , if you like , the country house murder mysteries , but I would have to admit that reading those is to some extent desire for stasis , a desire erm for a particularly safe kind of world , where everything works out in the end , because that 's usually what happens , and so these days I tend only to take very small doses of that particular medicine . |
| 3 | Every time his plane touched down at Nice airport and he saw palm trees and tanned porters in white , short-sleeved shirts , Adam enjoyed afresh the glamour of a life where one stepped on to a plane in bleak winter weather and shortly afterwards stepped off in warm sunshine . |
| 4 | Dalton interwove the two viewpoints in Labour 's June 1944 statement on full employment ( which he described as largely Keynesian with some socialist additions ) and Labour 's 1945 election manifesto was more convincing on full employment than anything put out by the Conservatives . |
| 5 | ‘ In a strict Party sense this was all bourgeois individualism and bohemianism , to me it was infinitely more attractive than anything going on in the Communist Party , particularly the student Communist Party , which was largely in-fighting and sectarian politics . |
| 6 | He dialled out , and as he waited for it to be answered he knew he was using a line more private than anything set up between the Kremlin and the White House . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're saying that if someone goes up from the North Pole , and keeps going in a dead straight line a really truly dead straight line — they will eventually come to the Earth — ahead of them ? |
| 8 | ‘ If someone comes out with a car that looks like ours , that has the same windscreen , a roll bar in the same position and so on , that did not happen by accident . |
| 9 | ‘ If someone comes in with a litter of four-month-old puppies and I take them in , would you believe they just come back six months later with the bitch 's next log ! |
| 10 | If somebody comes up with a suggestion for a change to a procedure , at this meeting , yes you should be looking at what that suggestion for change is but all of you round the table should be thinking , well does that change adversely effect other jobs in our areas and it should n't happen that you will get change after change after change . |
| 11 | Erm , er , now of course to get back to the ambulance erm if somebody comes out of an epileptic fit and goes immediately back into another one , then you must call an ambulance , it takes so much from the person , it takes so much energy that the person ca n't possible go into one fit after another , erm without showing some affects and therefore you would have to get them to hospital , if you do n't and they have two or three fits one after another they can die , so they must go to hospital . |
| 12 | Well , if somebody walks round with a pen or a pencil , or crayons . |
| 13 | But Caspar said this was unlikely ; the Draoicht Suan would probably keep everyone inside Tara asleep until somebody came along with the counter-spell . |
| 14 | And the silk scarf with it in a faded paisley design looked like something brought back by a missionary aunt from India about thirty years ago . |
| 15 | On the outside it looked like something left over from the siege of Leningrad in 1944 , but inside everything was in immaculate white , including a large wrinkled matron who proceeded to give the medico a verbal roasting , followed by expulsion from the premises . |
| 16 | That such agreement underlies the working of the language game is likely to be overlooked until one comes up against a disagreement which it is difficult to regard as one of opinion . |
| 17 | Alternatively , filmmaking is seen as a sort of relay race in which each member of the creative team has control of certain moments — the producer handing over to the writer , who hands over to the director , who hands over to the lighting cameraman and so on until everything comes back to the producer again . |
| 18 | Each life decision is to some extent irrevocable , since even if one goes back to the fork in the road and takes the other turning , he can not eradicate the effects of the experience the first choice has brought him . |
| 19 | If one goes back to the Greek , one will find the term speiran , a precise translation of ‘ cohort ’ . |
| 20 | If one runs out of the latter one can use paper tissues instead , though I would n't recommend them for pressing fragile flower heads as the tissues can leave a slight pattern on the petals . |
| 21 | If one looks back at the text-books and review papers written about psychobiology during t , his period one finds that they were largely preoccupied with topics like motivation and emotion . |
| 22 | Because there will usually be a common understanding between the two Japanese , the Japanese businessman whom one wishes to meet will generally be more favourably disposed to hearing one 's opinion than if one walks in without an introduction . |
| 23 | Yeah , and it was their tradition was it that if one turned up with a dirty |
| 24 | If , if one turned up with a dirty one they have to buy the beer that 's how they used to be . |
| 25 | If one works back from the sixteenth-century evidence , one is left with a strong impression that the years after 1450 saw the greatest pressure of enclosures . |
| 26 | If anybody comes in for a car radio cassette , I 've stuck one at the top there twenty quid if anybody |
| 27 | i i i in a sense it is a , it is a shift to the left because under the May the fourth directive erm rich peasants in particular would 've been left out of it altogether and there would still be some landlords who were , who would maintain their property but , but now he 's shifted to the left and this , this does represent a further attack on landlords cos , cos everybody comes down to the same level . |
| 28 | I 'm not saying that and I 'm not saying I ca n't cope , but it should be a Marshal on this job so that I 'm there if anything comes up in the village , you see what I mean ? ’ |
| 29 | Check if anything comes out of the mouth . |
| 30 | In this way , if anything leaked out about the deal , the Americans could claim they were not supplying Iran directly . |