Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there was a strange silence , as if we 'd come to a full stop , as if he 'd expected me to react in some other way . |
| 2 | I had somehow supposed her to sit in that room for ever , real only when Hugo or I were with her . |
| 3 | Peter knew that Julian gambled , but he had n't expected him to gamble to that level , and certainly not to use the shop as security . |
| 4 | To her annoyance , although quite what she 'd expected him to do after that she could n't think , Tammuz grinned . |
| 5 | What 's made you to think of that ? |
| 6 | What had possessed her to look through those field-glasses ? |
| 7 | I comfort myself with that recollection when dealing with complaints about my own paper , very much part of a modern editor 's work in an age when our readers have become more critical and more discriminating , but Professor Macmurray 's insights have helped me to distinguish between those complaints that flow , as they sometimes do , from a different subjective interpretation of a given body of facts and those that arise from a straightforward error on our part . |
| 8 | So it looks as if you , people 's emotions have been tuned in such a way , that mothers look on these situations from their point of view and feel happy about it , and offspring like you look at it from their point of view and feel unhappy about it , and your emotions are the way the evolution has equipped you to deal with these problems . |
| 9 | H This Contract shall represent all the terms agreed between the parties hereto and the buyer hereby admits that no statement made by the seller or his agent has induced him to enter into this Contract except written statements , if any , made by the seller 's conveyancers . |
| 10 | Shallowness had saved Beador — that very shallowness which had enabled him to engage in such monstrous debts when he had nothing to meet them but his partner 's money . |
| 11 | Jay had never known it to work for more than weeks . |
| 12 | During a week 's stay under the ranges I made daily visits to this rich arboretum , which would have served me to investigate until this time without exhausting its treasures ; but , alas ! our provisions failing , we were obliged to re-trace our steps . ’ |
| 13 | " He has never asked me to go at this time of night before , " she whispered . |
| 14 | He places the blame squarely at the door of social scientists , whose theories have directed them to look for this pattern in pre-industrial and non-industrial societies . |
| 15 | Mr Major was saved from a crushing defeat that could have forced him to quit after several leading Tory Eurosceptics yielded to unprecedented arm-twisting from Government whips and constituency chairmen to back down . |
| 16 | That she has a personal panel of instructors is something which has allowed her to escape with fewer hours on the practice ground than most . |
| 17 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 18 | And that , if anything , was what had fired her to embark on this adventure . |
| 19 | He was warned in advance , but , as a former soldier , felt ‘ God has chosen me to go on this forlorn hope of preaching his Blessed Gospel in his country , and I should discourage those who are coming after me if I should be afraid and fly . ’ |
| 20 | What on earth had prompted her to act like that tonight and get Luke Calder 's back well and truly up ? |