Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pron] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought you were supposed to be finding out what he was working on , not going on about what he might or might not have done with Suzanne Regan . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm going to get the truth out of my wife , and if I find out there 's anything going on between you I 'll be back here to use you as a punchbag ! |
| 3 | Erm I think I 've learnt how to do it , it 's fairly straightforward but er him having tied the leader on for me I wo n't have to go back to him anyway for quite some time . |
| 4 | ‘ Even if anyone came in for me I would n't want to go before the end of the season . |
| 5 | Well I know they 're not allowed to dig down like what they used to do . |
| 6 | By sailing along behind someone you can act as a human video and when your partner has finished his run you can mimic what he was doing . |
| 7 | The good prospect ’ he added , ‘ could arise if , as individuals , we felt able to resist the temptation to produce when that production does no more than fill up warehouses and to resist the temptation to chase prices down with what I can only assume is the objective of preserving a small bit of market share ’ . |
| 8 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 9 | At the same time that personal computer technology is moving to centre stage for corporate applications , ‘ it is moving down into what you might call the intelligent television , where you can select any type of movie to see , or shop , or interact with information , ’ Gates said . |
| 10 | By breaking it down into something I can do today , there 's a much better chance I will actually do it . |
| 11 | A realistic budget will do three things for you : it will sort out the urgent essentials from the details which can wait ; make you feel good if you manage any or all of it at a lower price than your original estimate ; and inspire you to improvise , to consider if you could achieve an equally good effect and still fit in with what you can comfortably afford . |
| 12 | There was a feeling that the Town Boys were an arrogant elite and to actually get in with them you would probably have to do a lot of serious drinking in the Marlborough Arms . |
| 13 | True , you will have to put up with unearthing all manner of car parts , everything from exhaust-pipes to wheel trims , but mixed in with them you can expect to find plenty of items lost by earlier travellers . |
| 14 | Why I wanted it and how that ties in with who I can love , get it together with , I mean long term . ’ |
| 15 | It was that sort of genial incompetent who plagued the management of Ceauşescu 's industry , but what else were ill-trained bureaucrats to do when orders rained down on them which could not be obeyed even with the best will in the world . |
| 16 | We are just as much annoyed as the ordinary racegoer because our entries are well down on what we would normally expect . ’ |
| 17 | It should be a close race on paper , but when it comes down to it we 'll see what happens . |
| 18 | But I have to say that they 've been the major percent of them er we think if only they would knuckle down to it they would do it . |
| 19 | But when it comes down to it you ca n't do it can you ? |
| 20 | if they wanted to come along to it they could |
| 21 | If you give in to them they will do it even more and they will think they have won , ’ she said . |
| 22 | She gulped hard , struggling to suppress the impulse to laugh , knowing that if she gave in to it she would not be able to stop . |
| 23 | At the end of the war government assistance was withdrawn and local Bureaux were left to scrape along on what they could glean from local authorities and other sources . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , the announcement of free time seemed to be the local signal for metal shutters to clang down over everything one might have wanted to see . |
| 25 | He comes over as what he might well be — a paid-up member , if not a capo , in the Mafia . |
| 26 | With Tracey apparently intent on limiting his own involvement , she longed to talk things over with someone who might offer more active help ; at the same time , she felt an almost superstitious reluctance to go through the story again in the kind of detail a confidante would need . |
| 27 | People do n't follow through on what they can see , erm and what erm might be there . |
| 28 | If he came over to them she would have to introduce him , and that thought was enough to bring on near hysteria . |
| 29 | If you wanted to make a person at a distance come over to you you 'd probably wave your arms . |
| 30 | yeah he looked a bit bad but if you 're off for one you might as well be off for two ai n't ya ? |