Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [coord] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | As one famous sportsman put it , ‘ Agree to do something for nothing and they 'll tell you where the bus stop is ; ask to be paid and they 'll send the limo . ’ |
2 | For example , the thought ‘ They are on my left ’ does not ‘ succeed ’ as a thought unless I can also have other thoughts such as ‘ If I move to my left they will move to my right ’ , ‘ They are substantial ’ ( that is , not a chimera ) , ‘ They are reachable/not reachable ’ , ‘ They are supported by something ’ , ‘ A large opaque object coming between me and them would render them invisible to me ’ … |
3 | Anyway when the time came to , to , to stop off for short time everybody had had their turn except the union president and myself and he came to me this foreman and he said er , now John I do n't want you to think what happened between me and you will make any difference about being sent back for . |
4 | Negative numbers , directed numbers all sorts of funny names for them and people get very confused about them but we 'll sort those out we 'll have a look at the number line which is a good way of doing it . |
5 | There 's only the castle grounds that 's a park in the city centre you 've got to pay a quid to go in there on Saturdays and Sundays and I think these trees really matter I am concerned and I 'm going to ask questions about them and I will talk to David about it as well although the leaf stem he can keep himself . |
6 | Botha , meanwhile , signed off with a few words of advice for the Welsh : ‘ They are going berserk about nothing and it might be time for the WRU to concentrate on their own rugby . ’ |
7 | Maybe we could join the fair folk … prizefighting for thee and I 'd be a tumbler . |
8 | There is room for everyone and you will be made very welcome . |
9 | He 's been shooting off his mouth about me and I 'll close it for him . |
10 | He 's been shooting off his mouth about me and I will close it for him ’ Lennox Lewis DONALD MACLEOD Lennox Lewis : ‘ The only fear I know inside the ring is the fear of losing . |
11 | Daphne would happily have paid for them but I would n't allow her to as I wanted my classmates to think we were pals . |
12 | Liz Norton will now be writing a double ration for them but it will be divided into ‘ Simply Silver ’ for punchcard machines and the new ‘ Silver Scene ’ devoted to the electronic machines . |
13 | We kept putting food on the ledge for them and they would go out for relatively short flights and then return . |
14 | It only takes a couple of players to have mediocre starts for them and they will be down there and lose confidence . |
15 | What , in order to decide whether they 're going to give us the contract what they have asked us to do is prepare a thirty minute radio , sorry thirty second radio presentation and we will re , record for them and they will hear , which we want to emphasise based on how good that was whether they want to take the contract out with us . |
16 | And if I may we 'll set something up for them and we 'll try and get the shirt on the telly and whatever and try and get people to remember . |
17 | And then we used to put some coops there and small runs for them and we used to carry them there , every night because they settled down better in the night than in the daytime . |
18 | Yeah I said to her if you look up what they were I 'll pay you for them and I 'll have them if you like he 's a real sweetheart he 's a good boy yeah Look what I bought today Tony . |
19 | Well this is a marvellous new form of economics , if we could just create things and er export them without getting paid for them and it would n't us . |
20 | Him and Mr he was another butcher , he was a wholesaler , and he used to perhaps buy twenty or thirty between them and we used to drive them home from Upware and split them . |
21 | ‘ It was tough for me but it will be easier second time around , ’ he said . |
22 | ‘ This is a new chance for me but I ca n't say yet that it 's the beginning of something long term . |
23 | ‘ I know it sounds absurd , but please do it for me or I might go out of my mind again , and really smash the living daylights out of him ! ’ |
24 | Agree to work for me and we 'll both have solved our problems . ’ |
25 | What I do n't wa , I know it 's handy sometimes you think , ah that covers a lot of things for me and you may have come across something yourself I 'll the there is a key , there should be a key to those things in my cupboard , those lifelines things not the same as cha , I 've got all sorts of ideas that you might pick out and say right we can use that as a lesson you might even just say well sod copyright I 'm gon na photocopy that and I 'll use it ! |
26 | Lol , a former council brickie , said : ‘ Boxing has been wonderful for me and it can be for the kids too . |
27 | I 'll never forget them for what they did for me and I 'll miss them all terribly , ’ she added . |
28 | I appreciate everything they have done for me and I 'll never forget that . |
29 | It went : ‘ Dear citizens , vote for me and I 'll give you houses . |
30 | ‘ You two wait here for me and I 'll join you in a minute or two , ’ she said . |