Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had n't thought about that do you know , I reckon that Sister Josephine erm behind all this , she wanted that hall and she and Father used to talk about this you see they want to extend the church back and do away with the car parking area as well , oh that 's alright , but erm sort of ca n't see any point in it , I mean congregations are going down , they 're not increasing , the church is big enough for what is necessary I would of thought would n't you ? |
| 2 | Is there any basis for that do you imagine ? |
| 3 | First she was on her own with Rose and some of the women , then they sent for the midwife , who did n't turn up , and only after that did they think to come for me . |
| 4 | After that do you fail so to keep him ? ’ |
| 5 | And er after this did you move back to Edinburgh ? |
| 6 | Turning to the mirror , she saw herself in the long white silk dress , clinging to her slender body , curving off the shoulders , accentuating her fine collarbones , tight at the waist then flaring out with clouds of taffeta below that made it seem as if she floated rather than walked . |
| 7 | Later , when lucidity returned to him , the recollection of that made him blush and cringe , but at the time he did not care . |
| 8 | She said , ‘ How much of this did you do ? ’ |
| 9 | What I ever did to annoy Old Saul , whether it was the heat that made him especially cantankerous , whether Agnes really had kicked him in the head when she arrived , as Mrs Clamp says-none of this do I know . |
| 10 | We need one of these to make it stand up . |
| 11 | Bearing that in mind , which of these do you think you 'll have to give up ? |
| 12 | Will he eat one of these do you think ? |
| 13 | So we set some of our comics the toughest challenge of all make us laugh about Maastricht . |
| 14 | But first of all let me explain how we come to agree the number of booklets on the and the individual financial target per assignment . |
| 15 | Er now let's go back over oh first of all let me explain what the idea is Hello . |
| 16 | First of all let me emphasize our common experience that most human relationships are asymmetrical . |
| 17 | So , first of all let me say , it 's a matter of choice . |
| 18 | First of all let me state I like him as much as I like Cuntona . |
| 19 | Least of all do I recognise the fairness and balance of the current Tory legislation which you claim . |
| 20 | Isabel sat in her room , behind a locked door , and her sister knew neither what she did there or what she was planning to do and least of all did she know why . |
| 21 | O H now how many of those do you want ? |
| 22 | Erm and ho how many of those do you expect to have agreed as fixed prices at er this stage of of the development ? |
| 23 | Working for an outfit like that helps you tell the real from the fraud . ’ |
| 24 | A child 's breathless wailing calmed by the firm slap of the father 's hand , a dead ant revived by the careless press of a passing sole , a wounded finger healed and sealed by the knife 's blade : anything like that made me flinch and veer . |
| 25 | At times like that do you despair , turn to drink to try and coax back the muse ? |
| 26 | Well it is , it is , yeah , it 's a , there 's a little of flesh but nothing like you know it was when his foot got like that do you see what I mean ? |
| 27 | But things like this make one doubt , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 28 | Things like this made him feel his age . |
| 29 | Supplying engines to projects like this lets us compete with the supercars and avoid all the complicated polemics they create , ’ said Reitzle . |
| 30 | Carrots and meat and good stuff , and then they used to put a little flour to thicken it like this do you see , with a big spoon like that . |