Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [indef pn] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 " Men are daft enough for anything you should know that .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 ,
5 By breaking it down into something I can do today , there 's a much better chance I will actually do it .
6 Unfortunately , the announcement of free time seemed to be the local signal for metal shutters to clang down over everything one might have wanted to see .
7 You sit there and spend a million dollars on effects to try to make it sound like something you can already go out and buy .
8 Does , does it call into question the fact that that was really what the peasants did think and believe , or were the peasants opportunists , and if they felt they could get away with anything they would get away with anything ?
9 With Tracey apparently intent on limiting his own involvement , she longed to talk things over with someone who might offer more active help ; at the same time , she felt an almost superstitious reluctance to go through the story again in the kind of detail a confidante would need .
10 The porter was tipped , Alain was in the driving seat , and she was being swept away by a complete stranger to a house she did n't know at all , far away from anyone who would help her .
11 Personally , I would much rather just give it away to someone who can handle it if I could find them .
12 Not to everybody it would n't
13 Then he saw others , similarly bent , all working away at something he could n't make out .
14 yeah he looked a bit bad but if you 're off for one you might as well be off for two ai n't ya ?
15 To one side was a row of lights which flickered on and off like something you 'd get
16 Magee moved closer , inside the high stone walls of the yard , walls that effectively cut it off from anyone who might be passing .
17 A spokeswoman said : ‘ We were not condoning what he did or holding him up as someone who should be followed .
18 She did not add , He would jump at the chance of someone filling that post , so that he would n't be asked to take the children off Rose 's hands until she is once more fixed up with someone who could manage her unruly crowd , as well as herself and the house .
19 When Myra was regressed she was unable to come up with anything which might have had a distressing effect upon her before the incident with her cousin .
20 You 're tangled up in something which will probably end in humiliation .
21 Glenda and Dee would be pleased to hear from anyone who might like to join the club and also from anyone who would be willing to give talks or demonstrations at club meetings .
22 She wants to catch up on everything they can teach her about themselves , because then she can learn about herself .
23 I read up on everything I can about him .
24 The outer stood up to everything I could throw at it until a wicked Gogarth chimney thrutch resulted in a nicked sleeve , while the fleece has resisted all but a hot cylinder from the Snowdon Railway !
25 I imagined he had been up to something I would rather not know about .
26 The shadow on the step , the wind in his eye , the very fact that Fly was here when he never came into the city on weekdays : it all added up to something he could n't quite catch hold of .
27 Mark Wright , restored to the captaincy , squared up to anyone who would listen but the Spartak player was booked , as was Burrows as the melee died .
28 It 's not always easy for you to talk your problems through , but if there 's something bothering you , it might be a good idea to open up to someone who can help .
29 On the surface Dana was hard and self-assured , out for everything she could get , but Claudia knew that exterior was n't completely genuine .
30 We 're always looking out for somebody who could cause er problems in Wolverhampton and problems generally .
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