Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person you depend on can lose his or her nerve about something which seems straightforward , like presenting a bunch of flowers or offering a cup of tea . |
| 2 | But erm Mrs , said she will keep you informed of will discuss with the er , residents and the board of councillors . |
| 3 | You or someone you look after may have suffered a recent bereavement . |
| 4 | Erm well a lot of them are charged part I mean if you think of let's say the neutron , it smashes into a uranium atom which is a big , really massive nucleus , and splits it up . |
| 5 | Where you come from can sell just about anything in the home counties . |
| 6 | Although the lengthy pause is also identified by Chafe ( 1979 : 176 ) as an indication of segmentation in his spoken discourse data comparable to paragraphing in written discourse , the intonational features we appealed to can have other , quite different , functions . |
| 7 | None of the companies we spoke to would forecast how many cars they aim to sell in 1993 , nor how many customers who would previously have bought kits are expected to switch to type-approved cars . |
| 8 | But now that computer animation looks so real , some advertising agencies are insisting that the images they pay For must look as if they have come from a computer . |
| 9 | If they freely abdicate that power , what they consent to may have popular support , but it is not democracy . |
| 10 | I do n't know what they do about must have some sort of spending money , but |
| 11 | Some legitimately if they wanted to could gain business from going in all of them . |
| 12 | The next day Boy thought about the film again , and while he still felt very approving of the woman in the film , Boy knew that the man he lived with would have disapproved very much of her whole attitude and the whole way her story had been told , would probably not even have stayed to watch the end of the film . |
| 13 | Maybe it is , but what does it mean wh what sort of thing might it refer to might think of a couple of fairly obvious ones . |
| 14 | He may not in fact manage to produce what meets the requirement , even when something he knows about would meet the requirement ; but that is simply a failure in a sort of performance in which he is at least sometimes capable of success , while no instrument is ever capable of it at all . |