Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adv] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 you want it just like that , we 'll have to put it up if you 're gon na carry the milk back for me right let's clip you in who do I fasten in ? ,
2 Perfect competition , a market structure in which there are so many buyers and sellers that no one of them individually can affect price , provides the theoretical conditions under which the market will allocate resources optimally .
3 Walking with him smacked of an intimacy she wanted to avoid , apart from which the sight of them together would prompt all sorts of speculation among the villagers .
4 Our appeal , then , is that each of you individually will feel able to use to the full your gifts , your skills and your knowledge in the life and service of the Church .
5 Can you listen er each pair of you now will get a job of doing this .
6 Meredith had spotted him at an end of term production of You Never Can Tell at drama school .
7 No problems there for either of you so let's make it awkward .
8 And he said from the looks of it there must have been you know sort of dead , whatever it was , and there was a couple of fingers and a couple of toes , right ?
9 Just ten or fifteen minutes of it now would see him right , a short trip out through the islets and mudbanks where you could let the boat drift , lean over the stern and watch the inner life of the dirty green water , the shreds of seaweed and small branches and other shapes that sometimes proved to be alive , or focus on the surface , a depthless sheet of scum on which the pearly light shimmered in continual shifting patterns , or even look up to see a huge modern building , several storeys high , going for a stroll along a neighbouring island , the superstructure of a freighter putting out to sea along the deep-water channel …
10 Erm there 's a new element here , you 've never heard of it before let's say Carbon fif
11 But I mean these , these surveys have indicated that the general public is quite prepared to give that little bit extra through direct t , through direct taxation , well listen , you you guys ca n't speak much after all there 's only thirty one of you and there 's thirty seven of us here let's face it .
12 ‘ Oh yes , I think all of us here can see that , Mrs Channing , ’ said Hilary Frome .
13 Some of us also may have pictures that we like but can not use because of lack of space , changing decor or whatever .
14 Several years of research into our love of meat has left me in little doubt that most of us nowadays would prefer not to face up to the carnal origins of our flesh foods .
15 I mean any of us really could sit down and draw up a list of er of things where , if we , you know , a list of rules if e war for a very small subscription ornot many groups other and if everybody stuck by them , everything would be wonderful
16 You 've got all you 've got really you 've got the hypotenuse but you do n't need to bother with you just can call it the long one .
17 She had always left the flat by the time Claudia came home , and she knew her sister was with Roman , and the dull despair that lived with her permanently would deepen a little more as she tidied the theatre programmes or the menu from an exclusive restaurant .
18 A touch more of the spirit that is in you now can do no harm . ’
19 Those who have had facts imparted to them effectively will pass the tests and those who have not will fail to pass the tests , and when the lists are read out on Speech Day the incompetence of the bad fact-imparters will be revealed to the world and this will act as a goad and make them impart their facts better in future … . ’
20 ‘ He 's passed the buck to me so let's get creative . ’
21 look up James , you 're okay , I 'm gon na put a bit of cream on you though let's put this tissue in the bin , right
22 So if you smash your glasses , it 's down to you So let's say we 've set a plan up twelve thousand pounds per annum benefit , a thousand pounds a month , yes .
23 I 'm almost certain that 's what 's doing it to you so let's see if we can get through to it with that ,
24 A month ago he had come to see her and now she understood for the first time that what he had said to her then would change her life .
25 What happened to it then would depend on the prevailing attraction of reprocessing at Sellafield , especially the cost .
26 They may never make it to Wembley , but just remember girls , all the frustrated football commentators among them just might get it out of their system when they 're actually on the pitch !
27 " One look at me now would convince anyone of your lack of restraint . "
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