Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Television sets were rare and people watched in groups ; in the oases of the south it was customary to watch television out of doors in the cool of the summer evening , where any person who happened to pass by could sprawl on the sand . |
| 2 | One might think at first blush that a passing reference to a person that all your readers will have heard of would serve to authenticate your story . |
| 3 | And clearly these two here let's get rid of let's get rid of that . |
| 4 | He was thinking that the night Minch had referred to must have been the one when he had made a plea to the powers that rule the skies where eagles fly . |
| 5 | That paragraph refers to high quality of environment and agricultural land quality as factors which would have a bearing on the distribution of er erm employment land , and I just want to er assure the panel that I do n't think any of the allocations that we 've made er on the strength of the erm er consultations that we 've entered into would cause problems er for either qual high quality environment or high quality agricultural land . |
| 6 | The door he had entered by would take a pedestrian but not a vehicle ; the one at the far end was wide enough and high enough to take a truck . |
| 7 | He thought that none of those he had spoken to could have told him anything of the killing . |
| 8 | Any Conservative you care to converse with will predict a close contest at the next election . |
| 9 | But there is another type of comic crime fiction that is open to you , and in which the formula we have talked about will need some adjustment . |
| 10 | I know that I went there when the change I have spoken of must have been already complete . |
| 11 | Many of the families I have worked with will ask , for example , how to engage the services of an undertaker because they just do not know . |