Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] and [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those are the kind of works which will have long-term benefits for everyone and will create knock-on employment , she said . |
| 2 | I tried so hard to be good but a lot was expected of children in those days , and I often had nightmares thinking the man would know about me and would come and get me . |
| 3 | Instead of sending donations to different charities direct , providing the minimum annual sum is over £120 a year ( or over £10 a month ) , donors can ‘ gift ’ the money to CAF who will maintain a ‘ charity cheque account ’ for them and will distribute the money to whichever charities they nominate . |
| 4 | Our Services deserve the excellent pay and conditions which we have secured for them and will maintain . |
| 5 | Mr Dunn said the firm hoped to create more jobs in the not too distant future , while Roddy Ross of Tecnomarine said the partnership between the two engineering firms represented a strengthening of relations between them and would work to mutual advantage . |
| 6 | But the r and K lines were cultured at different densities , so that selection on life-history traits other than late fecundity may also have differed between them and may have accounted for the decline in late fertility of the r -line females . |
| 7 | An icy wind was blowing , but the moment Modi saw me he came and said , quite casually , as if referring to something he did n't need in the least : ‘ Look here , I 'll sell you my overcoat , it 's much too big for me and should fit you nicely . ’ ’ |
| 8 | Or perhaps I should just wait here — perhaps someone 's gone into town to look for me and will come back eventually — ’ |
| 9 | People like Nick ( Kent ) and Charlie ( Murray ) were fraternal towards me and would say , ‘ Listen Tony , people like Johnny Thunders are a real f—-up . |
| 10 | Sussex 's Wood gave a good account of herself and should have claimed the second set . |
| 11 | Well — what if there were , they had had a lot of him and would find through loss , perhaps , all sorts of qualities in themselves and others they would otherwise have missed . |
| 12 | The O'Hooligan character , with his outsized nose , was so popular that iron casts used be made of him and would turn up occasionally as Belfast doorstops . |
| 13 | Well I like my mum and dad here ( adoptive parents ) 'cause I 've been with them for some years , but there again , I like my own father as well ... we still think of him and would like to go and visit him . |
| 14 | Regarding the player you recommend , we are aware of him and will investigate further . |
| 15 | Hank had no doubt that , sooner or later , old tabby-cats like the MacDonald woman would get wind of it and would give his mother hell about it . |
| 16 | The Head of Department then said that he considered that the criticism had been constructive , that he accepted most of it and would try out various changes . |
| 17 | so let's get rid of some of it and let's make the angle theta . |
| 18 | If I 'm going to spend several hundred pounds on an outfit , I make sure I get real value out of it and will wear it a lot . |
| 19 | Lucille herself never used her title , but she knew Sharpe was perversely proud of it and must have informed the Prince of its existence . |
| 20 | Restlessly Leith moved over to the window , but while the view from her room was quite exquisite , she saw nothing of it and could see only Naylor 's furious face as he accused her of leading Travis on . |
| 21 | Joan had thought of it and could understand Anne 's feelings . |
| 22 | The second problem with knitting too many rows of tuck is that if a needle is n't knitting ( and , when tucking , it is n't ) it pulls up the knitting on the needles either side of it and can prevent them knitting off correctly . |
| 23 | But the Rastas felt that the language was the African people 's own , that they should be proud of it and should set about improving it " ( 1986a : 44 ) . |
| 24 | Provided the problem comes within the Ombudsman 's orbit , he will look into all the facts for you and will inform you of his decision , together with his reasons . |
| 25 | I have some mail for you and will call out the names . ’ |
| 26 | Very rarely you would come across a person that seemed to think that you were beneath them and ought to do as they said . |
| 27 | ‘ I was greatly heartened and told myself I must previously have misjudged the situation — that my subjects were after all behind me and would see that right was done . ’ |
| 28 | Occasionally this contrivance could overshadow the less congenial reality which lay behind it and could override the more mundane , everyday exploitation of work on the land , but this , given the conditions under which farm workers lived and worked , was only sporadically successful . |
| 29 | It was as if he were in two minds about something and must select his words with care . |
| 30 | He knows you were with me and may have set someone to watch for you . ’ |