Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [conj] [pron] [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 | ( Why be beaten up for nothing when you can be beaten up for being a smart-arse ? ) |
| 3 | He 's very good and he 'll probably do it for nothing if he can get a couple of hours off . ’ |
| 4 | The landlord said that we could have the hall on Sunday evenings to run the club , and we could have it for nothing as he would make his money on increased bar sales . |
| 5 | 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 ’ … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ They 'll be terrified of hearing you say something about them that they ca n't bear . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Takes a dozen a year off me if I can find them for him . |
| 11 | He should have left the bloody things off because they 're gon na have to take them off if they have their carpets down and might have to have something planed off them or something might n't they ? |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Maybe we could join the fair folk … prizefighting for thee and I 'd be a tumbler . |
| 14 | But there 's so much for everyone that you can get away from it all . |
| 15 | It was a tense moment for everyone because he could n't control where he landed or his speed . |
| 16 | The client knows that the CAB is there for everyone and everyone will be seen if they are prepared to wait . |
| 17 | There is room for everyone and you will be made very welcome . |
| 18 | It 's probably not to yourselves providing the compensation was paid and that 's fine , but it would be a matter of great importance to those for whom that it would have to provide the money . |
| 19 | ‘ I , er , take it he told you more about me than he should ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You are n't worried that there might be things about me that you wo n't like ? |
| 21 | I 'm sorry you had to worry about me because I would n't let you know what was going on in my mind , but I hope now you 'll realise why I kept silent for so long . |
| 22 | He 's been shooting off his mouth about me and I 'll close it for him . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She ca n't hear beauty singing through them like I can ! |
| 25 | Well it actually does n't very , it does n't touch the actual fence it erm all along the concrete poles they 've got holes through them where you can put some wire different higher of fence you see |
| 26 | We read that the apostles in Jerusalem sent Peter and John down to them and ‘ when they arrived , they prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit , because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them ; they had simply been baptised into the name of the Lord Jesus . |
| 27 | If you embark on using someone as your detective who is immensely superior to yourself either intellectually or in the social scale ( and by that I do not mean any conventional listing of dukes , earls , barons and honourables ) you will be heading for trouble when you try to have the sort of insights for them that they would naturally have . |
| 28 | In the fourth Gospel Jesus tells his followers , heart-broken because he is going to leave them , that it is better for them that he should do so : |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |