Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not see much to encourage me at all , but this does not worry me for it could be much later when they arrive , after I have left for home . |
| 2 | She thought it unlikely that he would marry again , but nothing between them would change , however many wives entered , or attempted to enter , his life . |
| 3 | Now ladies and gentlemen if you have any questions we 'll be happy to answer them for you Can you just wait for the microphone because the guys at the back ca n't hear the question |
| 4 | Could n't nick them for it could you ? |
| 5 | And are these , all these peop people you 're telling me about they would just walk around and sleep wherever they could ? |
| 6 | But Visio takes the art out of being an artist , and I for one ca n't wait to see it . |
| 7 | However erm if if you as a panel are one minded to go for the new settlement option and two , er minded to make a ren recommendation about particular geographical locations or sectors , erm I for one would be very concerned that this would be done on the basis of of insufficient technical erm information . |
| 8 | I mean if it is helpful and Mr and I did have this discussion in the pre-meeting that we had , er certainly if you wish to recommend that the d that the stars on the the diagram were to be changed er just simply to show one star instead of a route , then I for one would be quite happy with that . |
| 9 | Erm I for one would certainly go anywhere to see the English beat the Italians . |
| 10 | Erm I for one would certainly go anywhere to see the English beat the Italians . |
| 11 | Well it does seem that women are most unrepresented , and I for one would recommend positive discrimination . |
| 12 | Learning it type is a full business and I for one need a bit more to keep me interested . |
| 13 | I for one will be most curious to see how the chancellor of the exchequer wriggles out of that particular i issue . |
| 14 | She looked at the tyre and saw at once that even if there had been someone about who could have helped her , the tyre could n't be mended on the spot-there was a long split in the outer cover . |
| 15 | When trying to guess where someone went when I missed him at the airport I do not imagine his thoughts , I try to imagine his situation as someone like him would see it , and think ; if he tells me he has just learned he has cancer I may hear in imagination the doctor 's grave voice , but I do not imagine the fear , I feel the chill of it ; if I see him cut his finger I do not imagine the pain as something objective before my ‘ mind 's eye ’ , either I look on as though the knife were cutting through cheese or I incipiently wince . |
| 16 | Anyway , surely someone like him could get hold of condoms if that 's what he wanted . ’ |
| 17 | as if someone like me should have sat there quietly like a mouse , demure and repressed ! |
| 18 | ‘ I can hardly believe , ’ he found himself saying , ‘ that someone like me could have become an … er … |
| 19 | ‘ It 's only after that that someone like myself would look for technical skill , but it has to have that initial force to grab your attention , 99% of the time . ’ |
| 20 | Only someone like her would be able to receive it and only a figure like that could understand the pain of it and yet also discern , beneath the scum of the surface , the beauties and longings which eddied in a clearer or cleaner current within him . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , and you proved to be a warm and funny companion , gentle and sweet , and I was intrigued to discover why someone like you would pursue a man . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm surprised someone like you can have such a fixed view of someone else , i.e. me . ’ |
| 23 | Good heavens , is it really likely that someone like you could catch a man rich enough to own a house like this ? |
| 24 | For example , anyone presenting someone to her should give her half the story : ‘ This is so-and-so . |
| 25 | That 's in fact what I feel I ought to , since nothing of mine could ad to the fire and force and beauy that 's here . |
| 26 | Nursing agencies have often been the means to re-entry in the past , and they too are having to adapt to new forces at work which for them could represent a consumer boom . |
| 27 | At the early end of parenting women can spend literally years in a state of near exhaustion , which for them can make sexual relations very unattractive . |
| 28 | In 1921 , Siqueiros had urged artists to ‘ avoid those lamentable archaeological reconstructions ’ ( ‘ Indianism ’ , ‘ Primitivism ’ , ‘ Americanism' ) but he had also warned against the use of ‘ archaic motifs ’ from the old masters of European art ‘ which for us would be exotic ’ ; instead his advice was to study the arts of both , learning from the ‘ constructive base ’ , the ‘ great sincerity ’ , of the latter , and the ‘ synthetic energy ’ of the former , to combine the ‘ lost values ’ of the past with new values to produce an art appropriate to modern America . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |