Example sentences of "fact [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact put it at the back somewhere I think pong . |
| 2 | I subscribe wholeheartedly to these views and would not in fact restrict them to the " later history " . |
| 3 | Here the question is subjective : did the person hearing the words in fact interpret them as a dismissal or a resignation ? |
| 4 | A further small point : we may have been taught at school to avoid ending written sentences with a preposition , but the above sentence , apart from replacing ‘ commence ’ by ‘ begin ’ , sounds more natural if we do in fact end it with the preposition . |
| 5 | In case anyone thinks this was unnecessarily drastic , I did in fact leave them for a couple of hours to see if they would come out of their own accord — but they did n't , and I was concerned that they might starve if left to their own devices . |