Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Well it does seem that women are most unrepresented , and I for one would recommend positive discrimination . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Anyway , surely someone like him could get hold of condoms if that 's what he wanted . ’ |
| 6 | as if someone like me should have sat there quietly like a mouse , demure and repressed ! |
| 7 | ‘ I can hardly believe , ’ he found himself saying , ‘ that someone like me could have become an … er … |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm surprised someone like you can have such a fixed view of someone else , i.e. me . ’ |
| 11 | Good heavens , is it really likely that someone like you could catch a man rich enough to own a house like this ? |
| 12 | For example , anyone presenting someone to her should give her half the story : ‘ This is so-and-so . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Most parents , though , have a world-view which as you may expect does include ‘ their ’ children as fully paid-up members of the species . |
| 18 | The cost of the trip will be £300/£350 per person , which as you can appreciate is no small sum . |
| 19 | Unfortunately for Kemp , however , Cedric Downes discovered the guilty pair in flagrante delicto , which as you will remember , Lewis , is the Latin for having your pants down . |
| 20 | Naked women cycled energetically round an indoor track as spectators placed bets on which of them would reach orgasm first from the rubbing of clitoris on saddle . |
| 21 | The open and public part of the contest between the two companies for the monopoly of the Indian trade ( apart from the normal process of lobbying , in which it was said very large sums were spent on bribery ) was devoted to finding which of them would lend more money to the government . |
| 22 | There was no question , of course , as to which of them would have to put the proposal for ‘ protection ’ to Cowley . |
| 23 | Consider the variety of ways in which humans spend their time and ask which of them would have value if they occurred , miraculously , in a kind of vacuum . |
| 24 | Let's look in this bucket and see which of these things will float and which of them will sink . |
| 25 | Every seven years representatives of the eight magical colleges in Altdorf meet to decide which of them will reign as the Supreme Patriarch for the next seven years . |
| 26 | First , is it inevitable that political parties , not voters , should rank candidates on their lists , and thus decide which of them will have the best chances of being elected ? |
| 27 | They pecked at some dead creature on the moorland verge , squabbling over which of them should have it , wheeling and darting at each other like terrible shadows in the mist . |
| 28 | As the four-man squad loped , half-crouching , along the space station 's strangely-twisting corridors , Ace and Daak were squabbling about which of them should guard the other 's back . |
| 29 | Which of you would like coffee and what kind ? |
| 30 | Delia Sutherland was thinking : Who 'll be the first , which of you will speak up ? |