Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Please describe in your own words , how you reached your decisions ( i.e. what strategy or strategies did you use ? ) |
| 2 | Even in defeat Germany was too valuable — strategically and economically — for either East or West to let it fall into the hands of the other . |
| 3 | Not by the slightest word or look did she betray to Miss Miggs that she knew she could n't read . |
| 4 | I said , I said thing is I said last time everybody thought Carla was gon na get highly commended or honours do you remember ? |
| 5 | All you have to do is to ask your parents or Guider to help you send a postcard to us . |
| 6 | The text evolves , through successive steps of minor redrafting rather than through the more mysterious process of gestation , and with less chance of outside events or circumstances making you forget where you have got to . |
| 7 | ‘ But time and again , chances for wit are lost through faulty emphasis , sheer inaudibility or reluctance to let us anticipate a line . ’ |
| 8 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 9 | Er and when you saw the figure or figures did you say anything then ? |
| 10 | Elderly people may turn to a younger relative or friend to help them host a party . |
| 11 | The unchanging first part of the sentence is always : What country or people do you think of when the conversation is about … ? |
| 12 | What country or people do you think of when the conversation is about boomerangs ? |
| 13 | Think about your spare , or time , or leisure time in general , what regular hobbies or interests do you have ? |
| 14 | Some are resorting to alcohol or cigarettes to help them overcome work pressures . |
| 15 | Use visualisation or affirmations to help you feel better . |
| 16 | He spoke with such calm practicality that Isabel felt her resolve harden . |
| 17 | There is no doubt that Peckinpah makes us share the exhilaration of revenge . |
| 18 | Although Jeff making me laugh at myself was the beginning of the end of my depression , it was n't enough to persuade me to stay . |
| 19 | I liked that picture so Marie let me cut it out and stick it on the wall . |
| 20 | I realise how guilty and bad that disapproval makes me feel . |
| 21 | ‘ Once Stalin made me dance the Gopak , squat down on my haunches and kick out my heels , ’ writes Khrushchev , an image hard to call up in view of his shape , but — ‘ When Stalin says ‘ Dance ’ , a wise man dances , ’ added the peasant proverb-spinner in his accustomed vein . |
| 22 | It 's alleged he cut his thumb on the broken glass and that Paterson helped him get rid of the bloodstained clothing . |
| 23 | An even more recent survey carried out by the Society for Companion Animal Studies , and based on interviews with 10,500 households , revealed a surprisingly high 70 per cent of the general population and 84 per cent of dog owners think that dogs help us relax and reduce stress . |
| 24 | To neither Pound nor Yeats did it seem that Virgil had much or anything to say about this matter which so preoccupied them . |
| 25 | But once you 're up and running it soon becomes clear that networks let you do a whole host of other things . |
| 26 | story time I think , Mrs still there and that Mrs did he tell you |
| 27 | In other words , erm , whateve the R is greater than C. Do you remember our , our formula for penaltriate benefit of an altruistic act exceeds the cost discounted by the degree of that 's between a half normally . |
| 28 | It was not that God let him get out of hand because he was too weak to control him . |
| 29 | Particularly with such beefy recording that absence makes them seem heavier than either the Dorati ( Decca ) or Marriner ( Philips ) , both of which use harpsichord continuo to leaven the textures . |
| 30 | It was the first time that Flavia heard her do so . |