Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb base] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I I would n't er if I hear of a girl getting pregnant er you know now now it 's a very common thing I know , but sometimes I feel really sorry for the girls because it 's tying yourself fifteen , sixteen tying yourself down to children . |
| 2 | But if I speak of a stone that turneth all to gold , or a treasure hidden in the menstruum of whores , then the imagination is set to work . |
| 3 | Perhaps I 'll be unpopular here , but in fact until you think of a way preventing vandals from vandalising the toilets , as you know , I do n't think there is , nobody has come up with any other way of doing it . |
| 4 | Also , if you know of a third party who is about to pay your debtor you can similarly arrest that money . |
| 5 | if you know of a tape he wants or anything , then |
| 6 | If you think of a Form program in this way , it becomes far less daunting . |
| 7 | Although a car , if you think of a car being a car , we know as consumers that one car is not exactly the same as another car , very easy to put power steering on the car or to put go faster stripes on a car , you can differentiate the product very , very easily , alright . |
| 8 | If you think of a famous building that you associate with London okay we are doing life in the city , we all live in London okay , think in your mind of a famous building for example Saint Paul 's , what I want you to do , and we 'll go round the class , is that I want you to describe yourself |
| 9 | Cho choosing words in if if you think of a parallel with blacksmith , a blacksmith takes base metal and sort of bends it and shapes it to the appropriate shape . |
| 10 | She says children can get it from a very tiny age and if you think of a child starting its every day , not even able to move its own limbs freely . |
| 11 | Er an so there can be profound differences in er if you think of a subject I touched upon last time , a very er contentious issue in American politics , the abortion issue , erm before the Supreme Court dealt with the matter in the nineteen seventies , every state in America had a different law on abortion . |
| 12 | No if you think of a map of England erm the south coast is there , there 's Dover , there 's the estuary for London , London is here erm then it comes up like this , the east coast of London , the east coast of E England like that this is East , called East Anglia , here you 've got Norfolk and Norwich and then you 've got Ipswich here and then you 've got Suffolk there and Essex , right ? |
| 13 | And if you think of a the main fabric of them , they 're quite flimsy . |
| 14 | If you think of a less developed country , you might find some big industry , this is just a way to divide the . |
| 15 | On the other hand , if we think of a wheel or turntable , ‘ revolution ’ implies a mere turning , continual movement without progress . |
| 16 | other words , if we think of a mutation as a change in a single gene , then mutations are not diluted . |
| 17 | They make a fucking day out of it if they hear of a prang as nasty as this . ’ |
| 18 | His critics have pointed out that Godric 's is an isolated story , whereas we know of a number of instances in which leading city magnates were recruited from local landed families , in Italy , in England and elsewhere . |
| 19 | The University 's Alumni Office can provide help and advice to groups , whether they consist of a few friends who meet informally from time to time , a group from a particular department or year who wish to arrange a special reunion , or a more established society like the ones described on these pages . |
| 20 | I find it tragic when I hear of a couple where one knows the other is dying , but neither can bear to talk about it . |
| 21 | We English have an important advantage over foreigners in this respect and it is for this reason that when you think of a great butler , he is bound , almost by definition , to be an Englishman . |
| 22 | I mean , when you think of a girl … when you dream of making love … ’ |
| 23 | He insists that ‘ you labour under a limitation when you think of a being or entity who is beyond the power of a man to grasp ’ , so it can be maintained that he is aware of the problems involved in his personal-impersonal uses of the term God . |
| 24 | When you think of a subject that you have been studying , do you know which part of it is of greatest importance ? |
| 25 | And when you think of a railwayman earning a pound and thirty shillings a week you know . |
| 26 | And when you think of a man earning about at the most two pounds ten shillings a week , one and sixpence was quite a sizable amount out of it , but eventually he paid it all off . |
| 27 | Well , it , the reason , you know the reason why some are going to heaven , when you think of a kingdom |
| 28 | Keep an eye on the local press and as soon as you hear of a church closing , make an approach to the vicar as soon as possible . |
| 29 | In short , when we hear of a peaceful society , we are likely to envision a society that is somehow the antithesis of the self-absorbed individualism of the modern urban-industrial world . |
| 30 | When we hear of a sustained flow of funds ‘ into ’ investment trusts , we must recognise that extra funds do not go into the trust at all ( except in one case we shall come to in a moment ) . |