Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a secret drawer at the back of the top drawer in the desk ( I test to find if searched for ) , there are some coded entries for suppliers of magical materials who are clearly unscrupulous people . |
| 2 | I hope to say if used to work . |
| 3 | As I began to do while reclining there in the pouch seat . |
| 4 | A trick I like to play when using a record or tape is to switch off the music two or three times to get everyone predicting when the end will come . |
| 5 | On the advert that 's gone in I did wonder whether to put please respond by such and such a date ? |
| 6 | I exclaimed — as once I had exclaimed when reading the Electra . |
| 7 | In his book Travels on my Elephant , which topped the best sellers ' list , he wrote ‘ This idea evolved from a drawing I had discovered while clearing out my grandmother 's house after she had died . |
| 8 | Before the event , I had debated whether to bring my director to the event , to reinforce the quality image of the Association which he in effect supports by sponsoring me . |
| 9 | On the road I had taken when coming to Dalkania there were several long stiff climbs up treeless hills , and when I mentioned the discomforts of this road to the villagers they had suggested that I should go back via Haira Khan . |
| 10 | To use as a repeating pattern ( as illustrated ) , I prefer to knit as follows : — |
| 11 | It 's the worst offence of this kind I 've seen while working in South Gloucestershire . |
| 12 | And I 've seen when getting corn er just right er dressed for the mill , I 've seen us er doing with a spade and that and a tub . |
| 13 | Dear Old FF , I 'm at a loss as to what to do with the soil I 've excavated while digging my pond . |
| 14 | How refreshing to see pages of letters last month ; plenty of scope for further correspondence , to which I wish to contribute as follows . |
| 15 | I have to decide whether to put in my poems and short stories and a series of LETTERS , originally called LETTERS TO x ( some 180 very short letters written in three days in about two years ago ) rather in the writing style of the legendary DEAR ABBIE written in the 1920s ( or 30s ? you are bound to know ! ) by Dane Chandos . |
| 16 | ‘ I have to decide whether to get a goalkeeper on loan for the rest of the season in case something happens to Pears . |
| 17 | In the Brent case , and others I have discovered while writing this book , such as the specialist cotton library at New Mills , it is too late . |
| 18 | In one sense , they are the strong passions and urges that I have described as coming from ‘ the roots of emotion ’ . |
| 19 | This training procedure evidently generates context-specific latent inhibition , a result that I have interpreted as implying that the effects of exposure to the CS are less likely to interfere with new learning when the context is changed . |
| 20 | The basic principles of penal treatment that I have portrayed as running through most positivist criminological theorising , also became incorporated into penal practice . |
| 21 | Or , ‘ Ladies and Gentlemen , I am delighted to be invited to tell you about the amusing experiences I have had while travelling/teaching as a , etc . ’ |
| 22 | Maybe I was being a bit greedy because I already had the one I have mentioned before made by Mrs Fawcett from West Birk Hatt . |
| 23 | I have found when mixing cement , sand and water , that they need the help of a softening agent to make the mortar much more malleable . |
| 24 | Mr Healey said : ‘ Tout passe ; tout casse ; tout lasse , ’ which I dare to translate as meaning something like ‘ All is Vanity ’ , and then , to end the conversation , he half-sang a little , final , syncopated drumroll , which went something like this : ‘ Da da de da di DUM . ’ |
| 25 | Whether such attachments are possible will depend very much on how much help and support he or she has received whilst going through the process of loss ( which we will be looking at later ) . |
| 26 | What sources of inaccuracy would you expect to find when using the Black-Scholes model to estimate the values of traded options ? |
| 27 | ‘ Poor Tom would have been so very unhappy if he 'd known of this situation , ’ she 'd sniffed while fumbling for a handkerchief . |
| 28 | But Deana 's persecution , continued more subtly and covertly as the days went by , had left its sting , and she began to wonder if living in the nurses ' home was really the right thing . |
| 29 | It 's a time-honoured custom in our industry , the easy-going atmosphere you try to create while auditioning young women for roles of an erotic nature . |
| 30 | The radio keeps telling you that the eye of the hurricane is here or there , getting near anyway , and you try to figure whether to leave the windows open a crack or tape them and you remember that the highest point of Key West is only 16 feet above sea level , and how the great hurricane of 1936 caught a train half way up the Keys filled with refugees from Key West and drowned them all , and you can get nervous . |