Example sentences of "[prep] [coord] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly , they let him down and one said , ‘ This guy does n't know what we are talking about or he would not ask , ‘ Who is he ? ’ ' |
| 2 | ‘ The teachers do n't teach , the priests do n't bother , and they 're releasing all the lunatics into the community so they do n't get looked after and they 'll either pass out from exposure or starvation or kill people because they 're mad , and then they 'll be slung into prison to add to the overcrowding , and all in all it does n't make a lot of sense . |
| 3 | I had about five barges to look after and you could n't see everyone — not that I cared so very much , to tell the truth . |
| 4 | Barney Willard loved Angy too but we both know it was n't her body he was after and I ca n't believe he would ever have hurt her . |
| 5 | Well if we put the money into sets , lots of ten and the people into lots of ten we could cancel those tens out and it would just come down to five over fifteen . |
| 6 | He 's well thought of and we 'll probably appoint him if we can get the Area Health Authority to agree . |
| 7 | People clearly are interested in what Darwin had to say erm and they mind about whether he was right or not , and I think that many people , I dare say many people in this room , have a wish which they may be conscious of and they may not , sometimes quite a strong wish , that he 'll turn out to be wrong . |
| 8 | Some of but you ca n't do it for something like a Medieval 's day or Roman |
| 9 | Certainly some of the productions that we are responsible for , as I have said , are controversial , and some of the public might not really want them and might dispute their validity , but I think what it is an indication of is the fact that people are short of money and have to make quite sure that they are getting the best value for what they are paying for and they ca n't afford to go to the theatre as regularly as they might have done in the past . |
| 10 | so that 's two jobs she 's qualified for and she ca n't get jobs in either |
| 11 | His food goes in a corner manger and a brick goes in with it ; the weight of the brick means he ca n't throw the manger about and we can only assume that its bulk gives him something to think about . |
| 12 | The holiday was one I have always dreamed about and I would highly recommend the centre to any outdoor enthusiast . |
| 13 | There was a madness about and I could n't tell whether it was within or without me , or either or neither . |
| 14 | I 'm never bothered about taking a chance , that 's something I feel good about and it will eventually happen . ’ |
| 15 | It 's a true partnership , a true partnership between the private and public sector which we know about and you could never achieve . |
| 16 | It is theories which tell us what the world is like and we can not make the recourse that empiricist accounts of theory wish to do , to check our theories against a world conceived independently of theories . |
| 17 | I know I 've made a lot of mistakes and there are probably a lot of things I should be sorry about but I would n't change my life , I would make the same mistakes because they 've taught me so much . |
| 18 | everybody can remember what it stands for but they ca n't do it . |
| 19 | So we 're gon na catch every traffic light on red now there was something I wanted to go into Wisbech for but I ca n't think for the life of me what it was , I must get stuck into this Christmas shopping again , really must so much to do and such little time to do it in oh he 's , he 's put that car down five hundred pounds , that price of that car was , that he got for sale on it seven , seven , nine , five , |
| 20 | Jasper was n't too keen to start with and you can hardly blame him , but now he 's fine about it . |
| 21 | Strive for simplicity : parents may well be impressed by ‘ mystique ’ to start with but it will soon become a joke when it fails to produce the goods . |
| 22 | It might have been the man that he 'd seen before or it might not ; his face was no more than a characterless oval with a few spare lines drawn on it for features . |
| 23 | Above all we must disregard any traditional idea and never , never , be put off by statements of ‘ practical men ’ who say it has been tried before or it will never work ; these two feeble and slavish statements have destroyed countless ideas and they have been the rocks against which many brilliant minds have foundered . |
| 24 | ‘ They do n't know where the next win is coming from and they can not wait until the season finishes . |
| 25 | They have a much wider range of cards to choose from and they can also compose their own personalised message . |
| 26 | ‘ Some people tend to think it 's some faraway problem that will never come to anything , but it destroyed human decency before and it can again if we do n't stand up to it . |
| 27 | ‘ Do you know about the Borrowdale cuckoo ? ’ he asked , turning an amused expression on the man who might — from these questions — be from the government — they had had government people before and he would not be surprised at them sending a senior man . |
| 28 | When they reach their destination , the driver stops the car beneath a rare working streetlamp and his passenger feels a tremor of recognition , but is reassured by Valentin that he has heard all the jokes before and he wo n't be passing them on to his mother . |
| 29 | But I 'd eluded them before and I could again , I told myself , almost jauntily , as I ambled into the bar that I decided to make my last stop for the night . |
| 30 | There is nothing you can do to change what has gone before and you will only cause yourself misery in the present if you concentrate on the gloomier aspects of the past . |