Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not understand my conception of the world in terms of , or reduce it to , some account of my dispositions , as it seems plausible one might for the rat 's ( or any third person 's ) conception of the world and its dispositions . |
| 2 | And one did what one could with the conditions on the sordid steamer . |
| 3 | If they could n't beat Greycoats by skill , they might stand more chance by guile , and one needed to learn all one could about the opposition . |
| 4 | In 1978 , I went over to France for the final day of the parliamentary elections , expecting to stay up for most of the night as one would in the UK . |
| 5 | Once a week ministers will get their intelligence summary in the ‘ Red Book ’ , all the trouble spots in the world , and one pays clever people like you to actually sit there and be plugged in as best one can to the trouble spots , with much better sources of information than the poor old chap in the street , to alert ministers on our behalf of potential disasters . |
| 6 | If anyone could post the half-time score and final result when it comes through I 'd appreciate it . |
| 7 | However , both staff agree Miss Hall fitted in as well as anyone could in the circumstances . |