Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun sg] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 Eventually it seemed it was only I who ever thought about that still , cold morning , recalling in my dreams that cry and that hand held out to me for help I could not , would not give , and the silence that followed Andy disappearing under the ice .
2 All six had conquered hardships of their own to help those in need and Celebrities Guild founder Ella Glazer said : ‘ They 're all remarkable people and it 's a pleasure for us to reward them for work which might otherwise go unmarked . ’
3 The hand was hot , the skin dry and the slender fingers lay in her palm like splinters of fine porcelain — she was afraid to squeeze them for fear they might snap .
4 If your supplier conditions newly arrived fish before offering them for sale you will usually avoid problems once the fish are transferred to your aquarium .
5 So you know once you 've gone to them No once you 've gone to them for advertising you ca n't go to that person for something else .
6 in the heavens and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves for fear we may be scattered all over the earth , well that was God 's command was n't it there they said be scattered all over the earth
7 Can I can I say that I after coffee I 'd like to go through each of these criteria and try to distinguish those which are relevant at structure plan level and those which may be more applicable down at the district local plan level .
8 Promise me you 'll think about getting some help , someone with experience who could organize all the day-to-day menial stuff that you 're forced to do ?
9 If you analyse the blood of someone with cholera you 'll find that the watery fluid effused into the stomach and bowels is n't replaced by absorption .
10 Erm on , on yours in fact I could n't check sequence erm on the programme that you 'd given me because I did n't , I , I had know way of telling whether we did get a clash .
11 Many people with AIDS have to spend long periods of time in hospital unless there is someone at home who can help and look after them .
12 They are clearly not " mistakes " from the point of view of their speakers , although to a hearer who knows nothing of Creole they may sound very odd .
13 Being " directly answerable to the electorate " really means no more than that if your MP presents himself for reelection you can vote either for him or against .
14 They 're sort of things to focus on points of focus within when you 're receiving Confirmation of the ways in which through Confirmation you can enhance the gifts which you already have and focus in on the power of the Holy Spirit through those gifts .
15 The person who gets on with the job instead of wasting time in chatter may show up the less zealous and cause the chatterers to feel vaguely guilty , which of course they wo n't like .
16 Thus , we can not predict social events with absolute certainty and have to couch our forecasts in terms of probabilities , provided other factors do not change , which of course they can .
17 The anti-realist does not believe in the existence of this further ‘ real ’ world which lies behind the world that we know and which may come apart from our world in ways which of course we could not recognize if they occurred .
18 So that 's that 's quite a lot , if it 's an investigator , which of course it may not be .
19 ‘ A request to subscribe to a building to re-house some people in the Gorbals , an invitation — which of course I shall refuse — to lunch with Lady Laughlan .
20 Which of course I 'll ask yeah I 've got plenty of those sort
21 A small noise-level indicator can give some guidance about the volume of background noise ( which of course you can not hear ) .
22 After that she practised her cheery-little-girl act to allay any of Maxim 's suspicions which of course he would n't have anyway .
23 Which of course he could not — not the physical thing ; she knew that what she felt as a warmth of affection was experienced by him as a demand for that .
24 You 've got plenty of rubbish you can use one of the ones you 've got You 've got a cartridge inside .
25 Always plenty of room I ca n't be bothered cos I 've got to give Foxy his shorts
26 However , if given plenty of room it will eventually slowly establish and flourish .
27 I would quite like to include historical information about many of the places of interest along the route , but that would be a lot of work for £75 and I imagine the Council already has plenty of material which could be easily incorporated .
28 Lord Robertson is a large man with a Morningside accent and a florid face which in court he used continually to rub with his hand .
29 Behaviour which lies outside ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , and to which in addition there may be strong personal disinclination : e.g. homosexuality as regarded in enlightened circles .
30 Asked to name sources of credit out of the blue , people might well simply leave out or forget about some sources which in practice they could use , if they were offered that type of credit when they were buying .
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