Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing really special about that distinguishes us , distinguished us from the pack . |
| 2 | They had n't thought about that do you know , I reckon that Sister Josephine erm behind all this , she wanted that hall and she and Father used to talk about this you see they want to extend the church back and do away with the car parking area as well , oh that 's alright , but erm sort of ca n't see any point in it , I mean congregations are going down , they 're not increasing , the church is big enough for what is necessary I would of thought would n't you ? |
| 3 | Er Alcuin want twenty fifth anniversary but nothing 's come about that has it John ? |
| 4 | I even got stick from a manager at work about that believe it or not , albeit friendly stick . |
| 5 | No they 're not no come on we 'll have the lid off that thank you , you can go down , mummy can get you some clothes to wear oh |
| 6 | wax jackets but they 're a waistcoat and I 've , I 've ordered one really just to see what it 's , it 's like , because erm at the moment I can , I just try and get a bit closer to the door , I think we 'll go round again , erm cos in the , in my club book at the moment , I , I can get twenty percent off and which brings it down to , it 's twe well say thirty pound so twenty per cent off it brings me down to erm brings it down to twenty four pounds and then erm with my commission off that brings it down to just under twenty one pound |
| 7 | He owes allegiance to Geoffrey now , but does as little to aid him and as little to harm Stephen as possible , protecting both his own and his brother 's interests there , while Robert does as much for him here . |
| 8 | Yeah , but you got ta be down here early enough for that to see him . |
| 9 | We got the Gilbey bar but I no the answer to that question would be if any company or org organisation was prepared or wished to talk about funding the theatre in any way and I think were 'd be more than welcome to sit down with and talk them and say well how would you perceive that which way would you like to go about it how can we assist that and I think we 're be open to suggestions from them how they see it I mean you know it could be seats it could be programmes it could be any any arrange of things that we 'd certainly welcome who approach us from companies but we I think we are pro-active in sense that we do n't wait for that to happen we actually go out but was said early I think given the recession it has been difficult lately to actually go out to companies and say I mean sure companies like the Harlow Council find it extremely finance the finances extremely difficult on them and with the recession it 's really difficult for them to actually find funding and I know lot 's of companies who actually cutting back on it certain areas I think funding of oth outside organisations will be one of the areas they 'll be cutting back on . |
| 10 | I want people to be able to listen to the records over and over again and I think for that to happen you have to create a depth of information that 's rock solid . |
| 11 | put the figures for that do they ? |
| 12 | You have to pay for that do you ? |
| 13 | Is there any basis for that do you imagine ? |
| 14 | Ah he got , ah he got done for that did he ? |
| 15 | Take the Singles ' Society , which seemed to exist solely so that its smartly dressed president could chat up pretty girls ; or the Alice Society : ‘ You did n't sign up for that did you , ’ said one newcomer to his friend as they left . |
| 16 | Oh Joyce you did n't fall for that did you ? |
| 17 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 18 | Well I had n't got through that had I ? |
| 19 | Something about this worried me . |
| 20 | Heard about this have you ? |
| 21 | Nineteen years later , in an angry letter from Italy about some review I 'd written which began : ‘ Jesus Gawd Aiken , you poor blithering ass ’ he concluded by saying : ‘ I 've never forgotten that you would n't go to the Blast dinner . ’ |
| 22 | A performance such as this persuades us that such assessments are quite wide of the mark , and almost as unjust as the neglect of Summer 's Last Will . |
| 23 | Only five per cent of acting Oscars have been won in comedies ( Jack Lemmon won Best Actor for the earnest Save The Tiger ( 1973 ) , not for Some Like it Hot , The Apartment or The Odd Couple ) . |
| 24 | It was the longest afternoon that I had known and it was worse when I heard the sound of tea being prepared downstairs for this made me even more hungry . |
| 25 | She also realised that — at the moment — Silas appeared to be annoyed with Doreen , but the reason for this escaped her . |
| 26 | For this to happen we need those who are actively involved in terrorism to reject it . |
| 27 | In order for this to happen it is imperative to educate people in general so that we may have a much greater knowledge of the fundamental causes of both health and ill-health . |
| 28 | In order for this to happen it is necessary to ‘ activate forces within the system to alter the system ’ . |
| 29 | I had a satellite mirror found in a quarry , and took i used this It was a mould for this to get it a perfect parabolic shape . |
| 30 | For this convinced him of how essential was religious practice to all civilizations . |