Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , to be honest , Mildred felt that there had been quite enough animal enchantments in the school to last a lifetime , and it seemed a less desperate measure to do a nice , straightforward kidnap where at least you could see exactly what was happening . |
| 2 | Perhaps Becky had sold everything as he instructed , he thought , as he left the market to carry on down Whitechapel Road where at least he would have a chance to catch up with one of his sisters , rest and gather his thoughts . |
| 3 | That is another way of saying he wants his team to win , because they remain only a point clear , although after tonight they will still have a match in hand . |
| 4 | ‘ He owns us , the studios from which we broadcast and the building they 're in , although by now he must have recovered whatever his original investment was several times over . |
| 5 | Cos I wan na try and sort mine out cos after tomorrow I ca n't take any more . |
| 6 | not as if on here you can actually only swivel round . |
| 7 | You know cos at least I can still go out and visit all my family even if they ca n't come down here . |
| 8 | Laura was very excited too because until then we could only produce two colours but now , suddenly , we could print eight ; it was revolutionary . |
| 9 | He wanted to know whether Wickham had arrested anyone for the murder because until then he could not face going to work . |
| 10 | ‘ It is n't jealousy on my part because at least I could kick a ball straight . |
| 11 | I said because at least you could have some nude men for me ! |
| 12 | When they bought them from me , I said , ‘ For the next ten to fifteen years do n't sell these , because by then they will be worth a great deal ’ . |
| 13 | We have not continued the story strand in the statements of attainment beyond level 4 , although many pupils will continue to write stories of increasing complexity throughout the secondary school , because by then it will be just one of the many types of writing that pupils might undertake . |
| 14 | Er if you were a fairly decent criminal though you , you may well have a look through the windows to see if you can see any detectors on the wall , just to confirm it , because by now you 'd be thinking that a lot of these are dummies . |
| 15 | For instance , domestic violence is now seen as unacceptable , whereas until recently it might have been considered a ‘ private ’ affair . |
| 16 | 130 and H167 seem to have made good starts , but Z114 better watch out since before long he may be in H167 's dirty wind . |
| 17 | For three days and nights we laid there and rolled , and rolled , and rolled , while to seaward we could see huge tankers disappearing in the tremendous swell . |
| 18 | But for now it would have to do . |
| 19 | In an ideal world , there would be no need for either , but for now I would rather see the frustration expressed in these light-hearted terms than in the sort of man-hating bitterness that has given feminism such a bad name . |
| 20 | I have decided that as from tonight I will be reborn under a different star , ’ and here she gestured upwards to the constellation over her head , ‘ I will be rechristened , I will come down those stairs tomorrow night fresh to the world and glistening with a new name ; from now on , you will kindly refer to me , both to my sainted face and behind my back , as Mother . |
| 21 | sort of , to put it , I 'm gon na be is that as from tomorrow we will have identified what erm desking and so on will be moved during the reorganization erm , and obviously any of the desking that is n't gon na be moved until the organization , we 'll be tidying up the cables . |
| 22 | The dark gaze looked back at her , hard to decipher , though at least she could see he did not appear to be joking . |
| 23 | Such a night for a ten-year-old child to be out on the North Sea , as by now she must be , if contrary winds had not driven the ship back into port . |
| 24 | This was a disaster , as by then he could barely play and he was retrieved from Naples by a Russian family , who took him home to die . |
| 25 | It was his misfortune to envisage every such encounter as a matter of life and death , though by now he should have been used to anticlimax , and to the survival and tenacity of both parties to fight another day . |