Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean to tell me , ’ Mrs Wilson interrupted , ‘ that you went round every secretarial agency in London asking about someone they might have employed fourteen years before , someone who most likely had changed her name , and you expected to succeed ? ’ |
| 2 | Think about someone you 'd like to say ‘ No ’ to now . |
| 3 | I mean , all I use I mean , if I was making them for somebody I would use about four or five layers and then I would put a piece of lace of braid or something at the top |
| 4 | And if you tell her about somebody she 'll tell them . |
| 5 | ‘ Now you think of someone you could marry , miss , ’ said Liddy , ‘ then read aloud the words on that page , and if the Bible moves , perhaps you 'll marry him . ’ |
| 6 | She must have reminded me in her remote stillness , her lucid silence , of someone I used to know , used to love . |
| 7 | His explanation is simple : ‘ Of course , I could have done better , but I enjoy the friendship of running and would never run past someone I could help get to the finish , even if I could win the race . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I would never run past someone I could help get to the finish , even if I could win the race ’ |
| 9 | So if you want to get rid of somebody you can go and tell them to peu de doci which means getting lost . |
| 10 | If I hear of one I will inform you . ’ |
| 11 | you know , can you think of one you might 've had last night or one that you particularly remember or something like that |
| 12 | There were three attics and through the open door of one he could see Fox sorting the contents of a huge cabin-trunk while his assistant was foraging in a cupboard beside the chimney breast . |
| 13 | Er about five past one I should think |
| 14 | I 've always voted conservative but I feel they 've made such a mess of everything I 'll vote for someone different this time . |
| 15 | So he would use the charm and the lies on the old lady in her grief , and cheat her out of everything he could get . |
| 16 | ‘ Bith , Culdub , ca n't you think of something we can do ? |
| 17 | If either one of us wanted to sleep with other people then that should be OK and it was a question of something we could work out and that would not necessarily break the relationship even if in fact it actually did . |
| 18 | I try to think of something I can say that 's better than just I 'm sorry , but my brain has dried up . |
| 19 | ‘ The death of the remand prisoner , ’ Fairham interjected , as if reminding Nicholson of something he might have forgotten . |
| 20 | You can use abstracts as an indication of something you might want to read , or you can just read and learn from the abstracts themselves . |
| 21 | I wish you 'd think of something you would like for your birthday . |
| 22 | I wish you would think of something you would like for your birthday |
| 23 | So in a group you do n't need one of everybody you could have just half of these but everybody could fall in maybe two roles within that group . |
| 24 | He began by giving official passports to Jews who could claim some vague connection with Sweden , and ended by thrusting , in defiance of the Gestapo , cyclostyled papers bearing his signature into the hands of anyone he could reach , in the cattle trucks in railway sidings or along the road as the tragic columns struggled by . |
| 25 | • If you do n't know of anyone you could share a job with , try approaching employment agencies who might be able to match you up with someone . |
| 26 | Russian designers have certainly taken advantage of anything they could learn from the West . |
| 27 | But this second mutation of Christianity was the work more of a change in the nature of the Roman world itself , its social and its political structure as well as its intellectual assumptions and its culture , than of anything we might call ‘ the impact of the barbarians ’ on it . |
| 28 | ‘ Certainly not of me or of anything I might do . ’ |
| 29 | But ca n't you think of anything I can give you ? ’ |
| 30 | It was disappointingly empty of anything I could comprehend ; mainly there was local news , with a great deal of editorializing about the German Constitution . |