Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had we known about them we might have paid more attention to the findings of the crime survey which suggested a quite extraordinary level of public support for what is now dismissed as the ‘ political rhetoric ’ of the social worker . |
| 2 | It could be argued that they might help to identify him , but it was felt that they might relate to another crime and that if we started talking about them it might put whoever was responsible on his guard . |
| 3 | Mm , I 'm not sure about them you 'll have the headmaster turning up say I recognize everyone here |
| 4 | Since we can never investigate all protons , any general statement about them whatsoever must depend upon a principle of this sort . |
| 5 | Every time he removed his glasses to wipe the rain off them he could see that everyone was taking advantage of his short-sightedness to stare at him and grin and point . |
| 6 | ‘ Simon reckoned that after Sintra if he spoke about me you 'd get tense — though you did n't realise he noticed . |
| 7 | Three hundred people say hang round the bar and say , conservation board I 've had lots of letters , well so have I , we 'll get get through them they might cause trouble . |
| 8 | If there is any justification in using them , it 's not that they accurately reproduce the eighteenth century , but that through them we can clear our way back to it through all the nineteenth-century ironmongery put in our way by what , musically , I regard as a particularly corrupting and polluting century . |
| 9 | Through them we can come to know ourselves and others a little better . |
| 10 | At one point of the journey through them you can take to a boat , and to carry you back to the daylight there is a miniature railway . |
| 11 | Through them he would know Christ . |
| 12 | Erm if it 's if you 're desperate for them we can rush it in |
| 13 | The plan turned out to be North 's own favoured ‘ final act ’ for the contras : that if Congress did not approve any more money for them they would seize a piece of Nicaragua , establish a provisional government and there make a last stand , while the American Navy blockaded the rest of the country . |
| 14 | Common Terns at present nest on an island in the pit , and it is to be hoped that when disturbance is too great for them they will move to the Local Nature Reserve at Rye Harbour , which includes a gravel pit with suitable islands . |
| 15 | If there is trouble for them they will find a way of paying me back for revealing their names . |
| 16 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 17 | When he crossed the Glen it would be in his own good time , and with an eye to what prizes were left alive for the taking , and for them he would fight as doughtily as any man if he must . |
| 18 | If only for them I 'll do it . |
| 19 | If it means business for them I should think they should want to do more . |
| 20 | Yeah we should get sixty pound for them I should think . |
| 21 | If it did it for them it can do it for me ! ’ |
| 22 | If the maid had arrived and was waiting for them she would have to be driven back to Mondano . |
| 23 | Between them they must decide whether this is a one-off fault or whether other vehicles are likely to be affected , and if the defect is likely to endanger life . |
| 24 | Between them they could think of no way to get the food Mrs MacDonagh had cooked that afternoon , and the plates she had left in the stove , from the kitchen to the table at dinner time without something getting cold . |
| 25 | He is confident that between them they can do their bit towards the deciding Test in a gripping series with Pakistan ‘ being remembered for the right reasons . ’ |
| 26 | Between them they will pick up an aggregate £1.9m to cover early termination of their service agreements . |
| 27 | They admit it 's expensive , but say that by sharing the aircraft between them it should provide value for money . |
| 28 | Then you can write a piece for me which will point out the problems , without declaring that they are insoluble short of a social revolution . |
| 29 | Despite the outcome of the final , my message to Will and the boys is thanks for the memories ; for me they will live forever , and I will have great pleasure in years to come to say ‘ I was there ’ , not ‘ I was embarrassed ’ . |
| 30 | It was marvellous when he rang , but since I ca n't have him ringing here again , I told him , in a moment of my feelings getting the better of me , that if he does have any message for me he could contact you , and you 'd pass it on . |