Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were supposed to get home leaves but every time I was due for mine they used to stop it . |
| 2 | If you are right about procedure you might gain one or two more marks . |
| 3 | no , if it if it stays dry after dinner you can have the cars and bikes out |
| 4 | I do n't believe in wasting time , so if Fran is free for lunch I shall take her out and we can get down to the first lesson . ’ |
| 5 | The Australian honey-guide is so fond of hair it will pluck it straight from a horse 's back or even a human 's head . |
| 6 | ‘ I can only do it when we 're in the middle of a conversation and you look at me speculatively and then say something anodyne in a voice that is so deliberately empty of judgment I can practically feel the strength of will you are exerting to keep it so , ’ said David with the hint of a laugh in his deep voice . |
| 7 | ‘ If he 's the reason you 're afraid of sex I 'd like to hear about it . ’ |
| 8 | These young people are rarely lazy — they 're virtually always depressed and afraid of rejection they ca n't handle . |
| 9 | If you decide to make the booking direct with Cosmos you will need to telephone our central telephone sales office and a booking reference will be given to you . |
| 10 | One , make sure I have every afternoon , Monday to Friday , free in case she will let me be with her . |
| 11 | IF you 're interested in golf you ca n't afford to miss TODAY International Golf Club on Saturdays . |
| 12 | And er if you were interested in football you 'd never know till Tuesday morning what had happened on that Saturday , the previous Saturday . |
| 13 | ‘ If the top players are interested in unification they will offer to help in clinics and such , because these children should have the chance to play for South Africa ’ — NGONDE BALFOUR ( SARFU development officer with responsibility for underprivileged areas ) . |
| 14 | We can not guarantee a lane but dependent on demand we will endeavour to find space . |
| 15 | She carefully avoided the personal for fear she might learn more about me … a lesbian , a woman who loved other women . |
| 16 | If the SNP are serious about co-operation they should show willing by investing the same energy they use to attack us to attack the Conservative government . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Your mother 's been very worried about you , ’ Leith remarked , having good occasion to remember that , were it not for Mrs Hepwood being nearly demented with anxiety she would never have had his vile and lofty cousin insisting she answered his summons at her door at close to four in the morning . |
| 18 | If we were to use the word ‘ God ’ to mean something subject to change we would have ceased to use it in the Jewish-Christian-Islamic sense to refer to the mystery of Creation . |
| 19 | Where a chief police officer believed that a march would cause serious disorder which would not be amenable to control he could seek a ban through the local authority to the Home Secretary . |
| 20 | yo you know , I mean i i i if Andrew were saying he 's he 's he 's pretty limited at maths you would n't really be meaning limited in maths , you 'd be meaning lim , limited in |
| 21 | I can not explain this sentiment unless it was that I observed that the members of the household appeared not to have perfectly learned their parts and also that having seen and known the Emperor for so many years in such a totally different position , his present one looked like a dream or a play ; but when each actor becomes acclimatized by time it will be a magnificent Court , with a Sovereign who will command the attention of all Europe . |
| 22 | Moreover , there is a danger that the longer the Labour Party is out of office , the less fit for office it will seem . |
| 23 | I think there is sympathy erm for the people who are sick of course I can . |
| 24 | More likely in case he should go along the road to ease him self on Alice Mulcahy . |
| 25 | Serious Koi-keepers should have such a system installed as a matter of course , for if a fish falls sick in winter it will need to be gradually warmed up until its immune system again begins to function , and until the water temperature is high enough for medication to be effective . |
| 26 | That , too , may have been reactive to Modernism and Bloomsbury , which were certainly coteries , though in a land traditionally sceptical of manifestoes and cynical about self-advertisement it may as easily have been the reassertion of an ancient mistrust . |
| 27 | We do n't yet know whether the Coal Board 's action is illegal but sure as hell it ought to be . |
| 28 | And it would be helpful for councillor I would say that I know that there are a third of our members and from the program committees for capital expenditure which I suspect is going to be to excess of the five hundred thousand pounds per year which we actually have . |
| 29 | If you think the position there is better well of course you can take that position . |
| 30 | Which meant that net of tax you would , y your , your yield would have to be about eight hundred in order to , net of tax , give you just under seven hundred . |