Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pers pn] [vb base] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | your dad 'll wan na look through them I expect when he gets back . |
| 2 | If very dirty they lay it in the stream , securing it with a large stone , and let the water flow through it for some time , after which they proceed as before … the linen is spread upon the rocks in the river , or the walls near at hand , and secured , like everything else by a stone at each corner … |
| 3 | So , three ca get there on time , let them set the clock by you , people are more forgiving for somebody I think if you are a little bit late , than if you 're too early . |
| 4 | People had got no money you see having a load of kids and they keep always being in the family way , naturally trying to get rid of them you see because they did n't want them obviously . |
| 5 | So I wonder if er I 'll make a note of them I wonder if someone will start me off on on a list of what you think are the pluses and minuses of retirement . |
| 6 | Erm I think that 's that worked quite well but there is a bit of I I suspect if I was to show a video every week there 's a reluctance th for people to want to pay me in a sense . |
| 7 | ‘ I was once on the receiving end of one I think when I bought a suit in Hong Kong . |
| 8 | But they 're not prepared to , to leave NUPE , let go of something you know unless it 's better than what they 've had . |
| 9 | I 've only ever seen part of it I mean where they get it rigged up and the hit man keeps coming back and he , he keeps seeing him and he 's , he 's walking round the place and |
| 10 | er I think we heard from Banbury School earlier in the year , talking about their music project , that 's going to be part of it I understand as well |
| 11 | But they do n't really get much out of it I suspect if they do n't . |
| 12 | Erm but I , you know I think that 's that , that 's an indictment of it you see because I |
| 13 | From their written works it would appear that most psychologists up to about 1935 have assumed that these three things , separately or together , must constitute the whole of what we mean when we speak of a person feeling a touch as a touch on his shoulder or a pain as a pain in his foot . |
| 14 | But an example like this clearly reveals the artificiality of such an analysis of what we mean when we say we see , and we have already considered the grounds for rejecting such theories in accounting for capacities like remembering , and emotions such as grief or anger . |
| 15 | It has even been suggested that three-quarters of what we know as adults we learned in childhood . |
| 16 | The exact origins of what we recognize as apples are rather obscure but they are generally thought to come from the Caucasus Mountains in Asia Minor , near where seventeenth-century historians located the Garden of Eden . |
| 17 | Add to that our unfortunate preference for foreign goods rather than our own ( 25 per cent of what we spend as consumers is on imported products ) and it 's quite easy to see why the UK manufacturing base has become so fragile . |
| 18 | of what they collect if they collect 6 per cent . |
| 19 | Figures taken from an American survey indicated that ‘ learners retain about 10% of what they read , 20% of what they hear , 30% of what they see , 50% of what they see and hear , 70% of what they say as they talk and 90% of what they say as they do a thing ’ . |
| 20 | Figures taken from an American survey indicated that ‘ learners retain about 10% of what they read , 20% of what they hear , 30% of what they see , 50% of what they see and hear , 70% of what they say as they talk and 90% of what they say as they do a thing ’ . |
| 21 | People remember more of what they see than what they hear . |
| 22 | A short summary of what you regard as your strong points makes an excellent final paragraph to distinguish you from other candidates . |
| 23 | Think it through again , he told himself : sift every grain of what you know until you find the answer . |
| 24 | Which is the question of what you feel when you 're in the field out there trying to work something through . |
| 25 | If I do n't make a Will , then the distribution of what you possess when you die may not be as you would wish . |
| 26 | Try and think of what you do when you find D Y by D X. |
| 27 | Last night , the UFF , now using grenades , blast incendiary bombs and a new type of under-car booby trap device to target victims , gave warning they plan to intensify their campaign against what they describe as ‘ the pan-nationalist front ’ of Sinn Fein , the IRA and the Social Democratic and Labour Party . |
| 28 | Well , to me if a child has got a by all means encourage along but you should n't push them into anything cos later on in life they get a bloody complex about everything you know if they |
| 29 | You are responsible for everything you borrow until it is back in the library . |
| 30 | to smoke when it comes to stopping smoking there is an element there where people do n't have the choice to stop smoking , it 's portrayed as something you do if you have the willpower . |