Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] [prep] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What will I discuss with my next host ? |
| 2 | What do I do with it first of all ? |
| 3 | ‘ How much of your clobber will you need for your first two days ? ’ |
| 4 | What did you do in your last job ? |
| 5 | What can you remember about your first week , or when you joined the force ? |
| 6 | When asked ‘ What did you like about your last job ? ’ the chatterbox 's reply includes a detailed description of her recent holiday in the Dordogne . |
| 7 | What secrets does she share with her second husband , the Earl of Angus ? ’ |
| 8 | The amount still outstanding on the loan to a maximum of £15,000 is automatically settled should you die before your 65th birthday . |
| 9 | The amount still outstanding on the loan to a maximum of £15,000 is automatically settled should you die before your 65th birthday . |
| 10 | What did you get for your tenth birthday ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ What did you get on your tenth birthday ? ’ |
| 12 | But in future , Christina , before you make managerial decisions , would you check with me first , please ? ’ |
| 13 | It is not too difficult to imagine how this could slip quietly into polyandry : females could develop the habit of mating with a second male and letting him care for her second clutch . |
| 14 | To get to the end of my story first , let me point to his last winter 's feat of equally Laurie O'Hara 's O55 Wimbledon cross-country record . |
| 15 | I thought : what did he see as his last sight on earth ? |
| 16 | Let us try as our next example something more difficult like |
| 17 | A further consequence for linguistic form exists in the examples ( 40 ) to ( 43 ) but , before that , let us turn to our second question ; we can now see why postnominals could often have an " aura " of emphasis , yet without this being clearly and consistently present . |