Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the life of me I ca n't remember what courses I took — it was so boring . |
| 2 | To quieten her , to get away from the dark , lurking forest of the past , she said , ‘ I 'll get you a drink , though for the life of me I ca n't imagine why you are cold . |
| 3 | I remember that there was terrible screaming and that blows were delivered , but for the life of me I ca n't recall ever making sense of the basic problem . |
| 4 | Once the idea took hold of me I could n't rid myself of it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I want to know what is behind this first , ’ he snapped , ‘ because for the life of me I can not understand why a man in his position should want to take up with the likes of you . |
| 6 | For it would encourage a reliance on schematic knowledge and a corresponding avoidance of an engagement with the systemic features of the foreign language , or at best a tactical use of them which would not lead to their internalization as a more general strategic resource . |
| 7 | Buyers on their part will make similar calculations ; and if at any time the price should rise considerably above 36s. they will argue that the supply will be much greater than the demand at that price : therefore even those of them who would rather pay that price than go unserved , wait ; and by waiting they help to bring the price down . |
| 8 | With what she was going to leave to each of her relations written down in it so that when she got fed up with one of them she could just strike his name out ! ’ |
| 9 | I 'd be more worried about Tony , cos I do n't think Tony 's as well wise as Paul is , in some ways really for both of them it would n't do them any harm you know because look , they 're , they 're , they 're not typical lads in many ways |
| 10 | It wo n't handle all of them it wo n't mean you 're g always going to get all your spellings right now |
| 11 | But because there 's two of them it wo n't stand up . ’ |
| 12 | As I said to Mum , there will be thousands there and if David Markham is one of them it will just be a question of avoiding him . |
| 13 | If there were spokes and the Scapegoat happened to be topside of them it could n't fall through . ’ |
| 14 | some of them you might just ignore and say Oh I 'm not bothered about that others |
| 15 | But erm if you took these pills religiously , some of them you would probably lose it . |
| 16 | From the pettiest official to the biggest Minister , there 's not one of them you ca n't put a price to . ’ |
| 17 | On the right side of them you 'd never guess |
| 18 | Frankly , a lot of them I would n't have allowed in my own home , let alone the Palace . |
| 19 | They did not have electricity , it would be oil lamps and some of them I can not mind when gas would come . |
| 20 | You may treat them as your children since they were two years old but if they 're not a blood relative of yours they wo n't be inheriting anything anyway however close they may be . |
| 21 | Only for the whole lot of you we 'd not be near that far on , ’ Moran was able to praise . |
| 22 | Right , and the background to that of course is , for those of you who may not know , Bullett was I suppose a more junior person in the State Department , when he went to Europe with Woodrow Wilson in nineteen eighteen , and nineteen whenever it was for a peace conference , and Bullett was the only one of the American delegation who resigned and confronted Wilson and said , look , you 've gone back on the fourteen points , you 're not doing what you said you would do . |
| 23 | For those of you who may not have herad anything yet , according to a poster on r.s.s . |
| 24 | The story of the sunken village under Semer Water has been repeated so many times that it may be pointless me telling the story once again , yet there may be some of you who wo n't have heard it , so if you 're sitting comfortably , I 'll begin . |
| 25 | In that case we will attempt to do this now and we 'll talk about interval naming afterwards those of you who can please attempt it there will be questions here that some of us ca n't . |
| 26 | WEDDING CAKES AND CULTURAL HISTORY by Simon R. Charsley Routledge , £30 ; £9.99 THOSE of you who could not put down Rites of Marrying : the Wedding Industry in Scotland are in for a treat : now you can have your cake . |
| 27 | Alright , well the They give you the answer for those of you who could n't do it . |
| 28 | Because usually you go off to a restaurant and if there 's twenty of you you ca n't sit together can you ? |
| 29 | Now if you look in front of you you 'll all see little a green tray with lots of objects . |
| 30 | be careful of the roads because a car ca n't erm ca n't always stop in time it 's up to you not to walk out in front of them cos they can say oh well you should be able to stop in time but in practice if you drove to be able to stop in time if somebody stepped out in front of you you 'd never above about five miles an hour you know ? you must sort of stick to the speed limits I do n't believe it we got gaining on the car in front . |