Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although some of its own experiments were now showing that air pollution in southern England damaged leaves and made them fall early from trees , it could not bring itself to say as much . |
| 2 | Why do I hang out with filmstars ? |
| 3 | Can I recruit directly in schools ? |
| 4 | To find out what tickets are available , how much they cost & c you first ring Ticket Call ( 0891–121680 ) where you pay money through your nostril to hear someone bloater on about competitions and how to enter them before you get the info you rang for . |
| 5 | What can I do now in terms of shorter distances . ’ |
| 6 | How long should I hold on to records ? |
| 7 | Could I point out to members that we did have er written replies to try and speed up the question process , could I ask members both in asking the question and especially in answering , not to make it another speech occasion because otherwise it destroys the whole purpose of having the written replies . |
| 8 | ‘ He made me dress up in clothes like my mother 's . |
| 9 | If a grown-up really wants to find out what it is like to live in a young person 's world , let him or her get down on hands and knees and go about like that for a week . |
| 10 | With the eventual departure of Nik Powell , the inner core was built around Branson , Draper and Berry — a triumvirate whose similarity in medium-length haircuts , corduroy trousers and comfortable sweaters could , on occasion , make them look almost like brothers . |
| 11 | To help you prepare intelligently for exams . |
| 12 | Do you think in terms of scales and modes relative to the chordal structure you 're playing over , or do you think more in terms of the overall picture ? |
| 13 | Do you know more about engines than this stupid engineer here ? |
| 14 | Did you look forward to occasions like that ? |
| 15 | ‘ Did she spend much on restaurants , on living well in general , on entertaining ? ’ |
| 16 | Right planners , now according to me this is for Thursday , next Thursday week t week one Thursday so homework for Thursday finish writing a list er whoever 's giggling will you calm down of things you believe are important do this in rough and I think we 'd better underline the next bit , bring it to the lesson now , quite seriously if you have only managed to get five or six items at the moment on your list that you think are important , that 's not enough , you really do need to be going for a minimum of ten , and if you ca n't then the next piece of work that we 're going to do in the lesson next week is going to be quite difficult . |
| 17 | Do you go out to restaurants for a Chinese meal |
| 18 | Did you go out with Knuckles ? |
| 19 | Erm do you go out in teams ? |
| 20 | I actually became interested , not so much in the women locally but my o , my own grandmother Greta , was a herring gutter from Wick I never knew her , I have one photograph of her taken with her two children , and when my children were small I used to look at this and think , how did she get away for weeks to work and follow the boats |
| 21 | Where would you put in on councils . |
| 22 | ‘ Do you get on with women better than men , Bob ? ’ she asked . |
| 23 | ‘ Shall I bring them down to Water Gypsy this evening , or will you come up to Chimneys to see them ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 've seen you come in for cigarettes . ’ |
| 25 | How could you kiss someone properly when you knew they had let you sit there for hours waiting for them while they went off and had dinner with someone else ? |
| 26 | Could n't we eat out of doors ? |
| 27 | Okay shall we move on to billboards ? |
| 28 | Can we move on to minerals considerations ? |
| 29 | ‘ Could n't we meet out of doors ? ’ suggested Linda , the Kelpie Second . |
| 30 | ‘ Boy , did we get away with things ! ’ she says with relish . |