Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | If you decide at the end of the day the thing to do is to pick up this kid and run like hell for somewhere you can gain , wave for help , or put him in the car and drive like mad to the hospital , then you might just do that , even though it breaks all the golden rules of first aid |
2 | Examples are known at Great Chesterford , Camerton , Margidunum and Droitwich , among others.59 But these structures on the whole resemble the familiar winged-corridor villas of the countryside , a building style which was restricted neither to Britain nor entirely to the countryside.60 Care must therefore be observed in trying to identify them as the residences of minor provincial officials , for obviously they might be no more than the farmhouses of local landowners and in degree little different from a normal villa . |
3 | All fords of the Esk , including Kirkandrews , were guarded on the English side by Graham peel-towers ; and though these would not be strong enough to hold up three thousand from crossing for long they could send warning back to the English authorities if so inclined . |
4 | The underlying question for a reader of criticism is what influences are exerted on the critic ; but as in this instance , for long it may be impossible to know the truth . |
5 | well that 's what I say in all tablets and that if you take 'em for long you 'll become addictive to them |
6 | I do n't know what , well the I mean it 's all paid for so we 'd either depending how many people are going away or whatever |
7 | Their captain ( for so I must term him — though their forces understand no battle order and hurl themselves pell-mell on us like mere animals who must quench their parched throats with blood ) , a certain youth who is called Dulay to his people , with a trick of the eye that makes him seem to look at you and yet not see you ( and other tricks beside — I have seen this same swart creature climb a ladder into the air as if it were a tree planted there foursquare ) , we apprehended as he fled from our justice . |
8 | This particular study for so he could listen to it . |
9 | Plus this pension so you 'd be , you 'd have your house paid for so you 'd get a nice |
10 | Cos it 's , the you 're supposed to that 's what it 's for so you can check all your spellings . |
11 | And the only thing is that finally after three months of waiting for the received all their medals and things for so it can go ahead . |
12 | Interestingly the resolution is below that of the Hi-Res screen displays on several of the computers that the Touchmaster is available for so it will be impossible to resolve to a single on , for example , the BBC Micro in Mode 0 . |
13 | " These are mine , " he said , " for naturally I ca n't give you pears from my brothers ' share . " |
14 | That is another way of saying he wants his team to win , because they remain only a point clear , although after tonight they will still have a match in hand . |
15 | Thank heavens that after tonight there should be no need for them to meet again . |
16 | I then reported situation and at end I told him that after tonight I might be of no further use and should resign with the whole Cabinet . |
17 | This was not of itself disastrous — after tonight it would once more be his profession — but whereas painting had a tangible end result ( two , if he included the recompense ) , pursuit and seduction always left him naked and empty-handed . |
18 | Course manager Ian Duff has put the starting time back from 2.30pm in the hope of boosting the attendance and he pointed out : ‘ With the televised football not starting until after 7.00pm there should be enough time for people to leave their offices , go racing and come home to watch the soccer . ’ |
19 | But after today it 'll be back to earth with a bump . |
20 | The day after tomorrow they 'll wake up to find themselves in Madeira . ’ |
21 | The day after tomorrow you 'll receive a visitor , and everything will be sorted out then . " |
22 | Cos I wan na try and sort mine out cos after tomorrow I ca n't take any more . |
23 | I said earlier that if it 's the American sound you 're after then you wo n't be disappointed with the Utopia system . |
24 | And that 's where he moved from here over the road and after then he used to have his own , see , he had a slaughterhouse built at the back , see , he done away with the slaughterhouse down the piste and he used to kill all his stuff there . |
25 | that after to-night I might be of no further use , & should resign with the whole Cabinet . |
26 | It was tinged with panic too for finally he could only babble again and again how sorry he was . |
27 | about fucking I 'll have a pint of lager please . |
28 | But there is need for agreement before each financial year about exactly what will be totally delegated to the head under LMS . |
29 | ‘ For tonight I will put a chair by her door , out in the passage where she will bump into it . |
30 | Erm , the amount of information available determines , on the probability of thereby you can reverse it round , and say the amount of unemployment . |