Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought you were supposed to be finding out what he was working on , not going on about what he might or might not have done with Suzanne Regan . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm going to get the truth out of my wife , and if I find out there 's anything going on between you I 'll be back here to use you as a punchbag ! |
| 3 | If you think a little about it you will be able to convince yourself that Rk is nothing other than the old familiar resistance ( proportional to length ; inversely proportional to cross-section ) derived in a different manner . |
| 4 | This writing was discovered by her ; she read some material before her visit , which prepared her a little for what she would see . |
| 5 | Erm I think I 've learnt how to do it , it 's fairly straightforward but er him having tied the leader on for me I wo n't have to go back to him anyway for quite some time . |
| 6 | " Men are daft enough for anything you should know that . |
| 7 | That decision was passed unanimously and if it is good enough for us it should be good enough for the Tories . |
| 8 | If only for them I 'll do it . |
| 9 | And , although I 'm not so bitchy as to suggest women want him only for what they can get , nine times out of ten it 's probably the truth . ’ |
| 10 | Good only for what it can do . |
| 11 | At the back of her mind was the half-formed worry that William was with her only for what he could get . |
| 12 | ‘ Only for you it could n't have come to anything . ’ |
| 13 | Nobody else was moved over the next couple of days so we talked endlessly about what it might mean . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sure if you thought hard enough about it you 'd know the reason for that , Seb . |
| 15 | ‘ Even if anyone came in for me I would n't want to go before the end of the season . |
| 16 | It 's on a house is only worth what somebody will give . |
| 17 | The next morning brought more early arrivals ; namely , the two ladies from Germany — who had travelled together despite what one would have imagined to have been the great contrast in their backgrounds — bringing with them a large team of ladies-in-waiting and footmen , as well as a great many trunks . |
| 18 | Dr Neil turned away from inspecting his own bookshelves , said , apropos of what she could not imagine , ‘ You are not English , I perceive , Miss McAllister . ’ |
| 19 | But because of natural bodies we know not the construction , but seek it from the effects , there lies no demonstration of what the causes be we seek for , but only of what they may be . |
| 20 | It is a common problem for a woman to undervalue herself , being aware only of what she can not , rather than what she can , do . |
| 21 | The finder of goods is entitled — except only against one who can show himself to be the owner — to legal protection against all the world . |
| 22 | Well I know they 're not allowed to dig down like what they used to do . |
| 23 | By sailing along behind someone you can act as a human video and when your partner has finished his run you can mimic what he was doing . |
| 24 | The good prospect ’ he added , ‘ could arise if , as individuals , we felt able to resist the temptation to produce when that production does no more than fill up warehouses and to resist the temptation to chase prices down with what I can only assume is the objective of preserving a small bit of market share ’ . |
| 25 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 26 | At the same time that personal computer technology is moving to centre stage for corporate applications , ‘ it is moving down into what you might call the intelligent television , where you can select any type of movie to see , or shop , or interact with information , ’ Gates said . |
| 27 | By breaking it down into something I can do today , there 's a much better chance I will actually do it . |
| 28 | A realistic budget will do three things for you : it will sort out the urgent essentials from the details which can wait ; make you feel good if you manage any or all of it at a lower price than your original estimate ; and inspire you to improvise , to consider if you could achieve an equally good effect and still fit in with what you can comfortably afford . |
| 29 | There was a feeling that the Town Boys were an arrogant elite and to actually get in with them you would probably have to do a lot of serious drinking in the Marlborough Arms . |
| 30 | True , you will have to put up with unearthing all manner of car parts , everything from exhaust-pipes to wheel trims , but mixed in with them you can expect to find plenty of items lost by earlier travellers . |