Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the final instance the golfer could simply refuse to work with his agent , who would then be faced with the problem of whether to sue his erstwhile client — a very expensive , long-winded and unsatisfactory process . |
| 2 | THE question of whether to use our own labour or contractors ' is a tricky one . |
| 3 | Pragmatists maintain that such checks are not merely tricky but also always leave the same option of whether to accept their apparent results . |
| 4 | He imagined for a moment that he was still in short pants , until she turned to him and added , ‘ What I mean is , I would have still recognised you , ’ and as if to soften her first statement she added further , ‘ Of course , you 've grown much taller . |
| 5 | The Prince smiled , as if to soften his sartorial orders , then gestured at one of his Dutch aides . |
| 6 | He glared at Melissa as if holding her responsible for this potential miscarriage of justice . |
| 7 | She was biting her lip and looking at the ceiling , as if willing herself awake . |
| 8 | Hearing what sounded like a muttered exclamation of fury at her elbow , Melissa looked around and saw Dora turn on her heel and march off into the orchard , where she stopped under an apple tree and stared up into the branches as if inspecting its heavy crop of fruit . |
| 9 | Overhead , a great circle of dark azure swirls round a gleaming crescent moon and into it , majestically , in the last light , sails Yr Wyddfa , as if to remind us that her magic lives . |
| 10 | ‘ Anything but , ’ he replied , as if remembering her dainty appetite when she had dined at his home . |
| 11 | The eyes of the round and woeful moon closed sighingly for a moment , and Rosalba took a deep breath , as if setting herself afloat on the night in her white nightdress , irresistibly reminding Caterina again of the great orb sailing in the sky like a big soft round pillow . |
| 12 | He used his hands flirtatiously , slowly , not flapping or pointing but caressing and floating , as if wiping his flat hand inches from the surface of a painting . |
| 13 | Even the sun , as if to mark my sudden sense of relief at being out of Czechoslovakia , chose to put in an appearance . |
| 14 | as if to demonstrate his terrible seriousness , he orders the people to set out the next day ‘ … for the wilderness by the way to the Reed Sea ’ . |
| 15 | Gothic he stated was not the national style its exponents claimed , but a foreign importation and as if to counter his own question to Scott , he recited a long list of classical public buildings in Britain and Ireland . |
| 16 | He paused for a moment as if to give his next words emphasis . |
| 17 | He repeated the word as if giving it due consideration . |
| 18 | He took a deep breath before he spoke as if to keep himself calm . |
| 19 | He looked away , as if studying his own thoughts . |
| 20 | ‘ It would seem that he wanted to conceal his past , ’ he said , as if grudging her that information . |
| 21 | His/her long muscular tongue lashed and probed the air like a sense organ as if to supplement his/her tiny shrunken eyes . |
| 22 | as if to prove myself wrong , a faint signal turned up a ‘ Maltravers ’ farthing of Charles I. I began to wonder just how old this site really was . |
| 23 | Of course we must be cautious about taking on difficult tasks as if to prove our social virility . |
| 24 | His eyes strayed to the rosy-cheeked children who were chattering happily and , to Meredith 's delight , he began to talk as if questioning his own feelings . |
| 25 | He gave a decided nod as if to approve his own argument . |
| 26 | Doctor Robert Dexter ran a hand through his hair and nodded slowly , as if answering his own unasked question . |
| 27 | The place was hardly cordoned by guards , as if to emphasize its innocuous character . |
| 28 | ‘ You have lovely hands , ’ he murmured , as if to excuse his impetuous reaching across the table for one of them . |
| 29 | The Catechism was conceived as a model which local bishops ' conferences around the world could look to when preparing their own Catechisms , and is described by the Pope as ‘ a secure point of reference in the elaboration of national and diocesan Catechisms ’ . |