Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand if I am in a drama experience my own actions and things about me may trap me into believing I am in an actual event . |
| 2 | Masculine intuition , he thought ; these two , perhaps you should n't trust it , but these two between them could stitch me up . |
| 3 | If they are not moving relative to each other at one time , the attraction between them will cause them to start falling toward each other . |
| 4 | He produced a notebook and took down the address of the party in Fulham ( as best as I could remember it ) and the time , which I guessed at around 11.15 p.m . |
| 5 | Derek Johns of Sheffield writes in to say that a company that has a rare new species named after it could find its share price sensitive to any environmental news . |
| 6 | If one knight became separated from the rest of his team he might find five or six opponents all bearing down on him at once , and one of them might strike him in the back . |
| 7 | The hovering clerk at Hussey 's back was watching them narrowly every moment , as though one of them might elude him when he came to gather them up again . |
| 8 | The heel of one of them might massage his arm or the rough texture of his cheek . |
| 9 | ( 27 ) Not one of them dare support you . |
| 10 | ‘ These are enormously strong roots and the melding of them may give us an organisation far more formidable than either could be on their own . ’ |
| 11 | The most energetic of them may form themselves into pressure-groups of a not wholly child-centred kind . |
| 12 | The roar of applause when it later rids itself of them may boost its popularity at a critical moment . |
| 13 | One or two of them may grab your arms while a third gets ready to hit you from the front . |
| 14 | Different people will notice different things and some of them may surprise you . |
| 15 | Some of them would make their way to the railway station , but a few , having no horse and trap and unable to afford even the train fare , would travel on foot the whole week , often sleeping rough in the fields or in barns or farmhouses . |
| 16 | ‘ Any of them would make you a better wife than I could . |
| 17 | Even when I said I was family — well , yes , I know it was n't true but it seemed near enough the truth to use to persuade them neither of them would give her away . ’ |
| 18 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 19 | Living proof of this point are tonight 's audience , who have come here hoping for some of the screaming industrial hardcore MBM used to play , but nevertheless 90 per cent of them would do their unintentionally amusing Maori rugby player dance to a series of sampled farts if they thought they should . |
| 20 | I am sure one of them would afford you the protection that you seek . |
| 21 | My father would rage and storm , not so much at my mother as to her , and against Helen and Pat in their absence , but in the end neither of them would say anything to either of my sisters . |
| 22 | I remember when I was working on the building sites in Manchester , the Irish lads called onions " navvies ' apples " and some of them would peel them and eat them whole like fruit . |
| 23 | Perhaps one of them would allow her to see more clearly : the ghost in the land , or the child that she had been , or the old dog , or the rooks in the tall trees , or the woman … |
| 24 | Obviously he had thought that the mere sight of them would frighten her into standing quietly and listening , but he was wrong . |
| 25 | And some of them would take it maybe themselves just or in Kirkwall . |
| 26 | The United Kingdom has been spared so far , but while the majority of the population are religiously inactive in terms of church-going , most of them would call themselves Christians , and their spiritual beliefs have been formed by Christian teaching . |
| 27 | Reversing the polarity of both thrusters would bring the vessel to a rapid halt ; swapping the polarity of just one of them would let it turn on a sixpence . |
| 28 | ‘ I doubt most of them would need it ; everybody did national service in those days , some would have been in the war . ’ |
| 29 | That way , every time she turned her head to address one section of the audience , the rest of them would have something to be surprised about . |
| 30 | As I said , life is not all plain sailing , there are troubles , there are storms and some of them are very fierce and some of them would cause us to , to wonder if there is an escape . |