Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But a proposal to re-draw the tax-boundary line between them would win little favour in the rich suburbs . |
| 32 | A resumé by Secretary General Ian Martin of the momentous world events that have occurred during the past five years set the work of AI in context and also set the scene for the working parties , which between them would report back to the plenary with recommendations that would change the AI mandate dramatically . |
| 33 | France has shown some sympathy ; an independent nuclear power , it has never accepted the notion that Russians and Americans between them should run the nuclear affairs of the world , let alone the post-Soviet world . |
| 34 | Their total vote of 1,510 was 600 votes short of Conaty ( Independent ) with 2134 , and no amount of vote transfer between them could have postponed the elimination of any of them until after Conaty . |
| 35 | Since many associates who were not blood relations often assumed the surname but between them could muster only a limited number of Christian names , confusion was avoided by the bestowal of what we might call a nickname , or what has been more justly described as a ‘ toname ’ . |
| 36 | Masculine intuition , he thought ; these two , perhaps you should n't trust it , but these two between them could stitch me up . |
| 37 | The two principal isotopes of oxygen , , are chemically very nearly identical , but modest fractionation between them can occur when oxygen is partitioned between phases in which it is bound in very different ways . |
| 38 | CONGRATULATIONS to the Department of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , for proving the law that if one department is capable of one stupid press release , two between them can raise the stupidity by an order of magnitude . |
| 39 | In considering the issue of legitimacy in relation to our constitutional arrangements and the exercise of governmental power , what has to be done is to examine a range of practices , decisions , actions ( and non-practices , -decisions and -actions ) statements and policies which between them can amount to a portrait of power , so that we can form a judgment or an assessment of that power set against the principles of limited government outlined and discussed so far . |
| 40 | When both cheetahs and gazelles reach the maximum running speed that they can ‘ afford ’ , in their own internal economies , the arms race between them will come to an end . |
| 41 | If the goods are close substitutes , competition between them will drive price down near to marginal cost . |
| 42 | Certainly , this broader remit seems eminently sensible , partly because the existence of strict demarcation lines between advanced and non-advanced further education is harmful to both and partly because the distinction between them will become more blurred as and when the provision of recurrent and continuing education is expanded . |
| 43 | If they are not moving relative to each other at one time , the attraction between them will cause them to start falling toward each other . |
| 44 | This does n't mean that the others had no ‘ powers ’ , that they seemed to do little for me may have been my own lack of receptivity . |
| 45 | ‘ But I ca n't imagine that your plan for me would enhance Bo-Bo 's pleasure . ’ |
| 46 | The worst possible thing for me would have been to have gone through the half in 63 or 64 minutes , just being pulled along by a fast field , and then to have blown up over the second half . ’ |
| 47 | Although I am not a Christian and certainly do not read the bible , God , for me would have been an excuse not to sort it out myself . |
| 48 | Similar impressions seem to arise from sentences such as I may leave tomorrow and I can finish it next week . |
| 49 | He produced a notebook and took down the address of the party in Fulham ( as best as I could remember it ) and the time , which I guessed at around 11.15 p.m . |
| 50 | Yeah , probably , me and this other mate he 'd a , did a , I can , I can remember him saying something about I 'll race yeah , it , like I remember just remember him , me and him run running down ramps and stuff trying to get back down to the ground floor , so . |
| 51 | Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to . |
| 52 | By that time we should have about I would say at least another ten thousand pounds in that account of yours . |
| 53 | We might go to France in another four er about I would say spring time |
| 54 | Erm the it was about I should imagine well guess , three years old back then . |
| 55 | Well you 've got a lot of other things to think about I 'd say . |
| 56 | No , only about I 'd say late twenties Ed , you know , do know what it was though , he never had a drink he just sat there talking to himself , having a good chat to somebody , aye |
| 57 | ‘ If that 's all you 're worried about I can explain simply enough . ’ |
| 58 | The price you paid for yours would sound about right . |
| 59 | Velázquez 's name , for example , would have been familiar to very few Mexicans in the seventeenth century , but as the only artist authorised to execute likenesses of the King his official portraits of Philip IV and the innumerable engravings after them would have been well known . |
| 60 | Since the majority of elderly people requiring help are women , then a great deal of the responsibility for looking after them will fall on women 's shoulders . |