Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room . |
| 2 | No , only about I 'd say late twenties Ed , you know , do know what it was though , he never had a drink he just sat there talking to himself , having a good chat to somebody , aye |
| 3 | But in between we should imagine a gap in the tageia : Plutarch ( On the Malice of Herodotus , xxi ) says that Leotychidas ‘ ended the tyranny ’ ( temporarily ) ; and if Echekratidas was a Spartan nominee whose tageia went right back to 476 his Athenian alliance is harder to explain . |
| 4 | Anyone who tried to set up in between us would find it hard going . |
| 5 | The B film was a Western starring Randolph Scott , and when that was over he would watch Jane Russell again , and somewhere in between he would eat his boiled egg and perhaps sleep for a while . |
| 6 | In between it can vary , depending on interest rates and the market . |
| 7 | When the deadline for judging whether the republics should be recognised arrives in January , will the 12 Foreign Ministers meet again to decide collectively whether the criteria have been met and whether all of them will recognise or not recognise the republics ? |
| 8 | P.B. All of this , which would go I think contrary … much of it would go contrary to the basic Catholic belief . |
| 9 | Along with them will go the ents and the dwarves , indeed the whole imagined world of Middle-earth , to be replaced by modernity and the domination of men ; all the characters and their story , one might say , will shrink to poetic ‘ rigmaroles ’ and misunderstood snatches in plays and ballads . |
| 10 | He had no official status and no powers of arrest , but once he 'd identified Alina then the two officers along with him would have been able to detain her on immigration charges . |
| 11 | We sometimes get the feeling that not all the bodies that come down to us need have done . ’ |
| 12 | Let's start all over we can start all over , yeah . |
| 13 | Dotted all over you can see the symbol of Wenceslas IV — a kingfisher and a towel . |
| 14 | Moran was neither rich nor poor but his hatred and fear of poverty was as fierce as his fear of illness which meant that he would never be poor but that he and all around him would live as if they were paupers . |
| 15 | The other people all around us must have thought — I do n't know what they must have thought . |
| 16 | At some time or another most of us will have sat beside the shore of a loch when there 's complete calm and not a breath of air . |
| 17 | He produced a notebook and took down the address of the party in Fulham ( as best as I could remember it ) and the time , which I guessed at around 11.15 p.m . |
| 18 | That 's what I 'm saying , if , if , if , a a we hope you 're never in the situation but if you was describing that man , try and describe that man as honestly , honestly and as best as you can do n't say , if I say to you oh did he have jeans on ? |
| 19 | It took the view that the upper limit is arbitrary , and might operate unfairly , since a person just above the limit receives no assistance , whereas a person just below it might have to make a substantial contribution but would have the security of knowing that that contribution represents the maximum liability for costs regardless of the actual cost or the outcome of the case . |
| 20 | He had a way of looking at people as though they amused him , just like you might look at the antics of white mice in a cage . |
| 21 | In the Trocadero large quantities of objects were displayed in a crowded , haphazard fashion , and , while Picasso was undoubtedly overwhelmed by what he saw and experienced , the impression he carried away with him must have been of a very general , metaphysical kind . |
| 22 | After all , death frightens the hell out of everyone ; so once you 'd gone and got it over with you might feel quite light-hearted . ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps the time spent away from him would help her regain some control over the wild emotions roiling inside her . |
| 24 | That ingrained courage , the belief that he must continue to fight on — the ability to fool himself into thinking that he could fight on — was all that was left to Tubby , and Colonel Windsor realised that to take it away from him could precipitate the final breakdown . |
| 25 | In the case of light , therefore , this means that stars moving away from us will have their spectra shifted toward the red end of the spectrum ( red-shifted ) and those moving toward us will have their spectra blue-shifted . |
| 26 | It was clear , too , that Kanhai , who had taken over the leadership from Sobers , was coming to the end of his career and that whoever took over from him would have the opportunity for an extended run in the job if he were successful . |
| 27 | it 's a pity cos I mean if we put , if , if Billy went away on I could use it |
| 28 | If you decide not to I 'll walk straight out of your office and you 'll never see me again . |
| 29 | Such methods are outside the scope of this book , but those who are interested in reading more about them will find relevant books in Suggested Reading on p. 141 . |
| 30 | There was nothing any of them could do to save him , scattered and outnumbered now as they were . |