Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes , yes in the , in the window yes I think and many and many a ticket I got when I first got married to my first wife I used to do my mother-in-law 's little tickets for all the various custards , and , and Eccles cakes and four for thruppence ha'penny it does n't of course I could print right you see she said , being a draughtsman I always could print right so I used to do the four for thruppence ha'penny . |
| 2 | If it was a child I 'd say here you sit up properly . |
| 3 | Lewis said : ‘ By beating Foreman I can prove again I 'm the best heavyweight , but I want to box people who 'll give me a good workout — unlike Bowe I never avoid anybody . ’ |
| 4 | It is only too easy to create a ‘ yes man ’ climate which will help neither you nor your subordinate . |
| 5 | But from the moment she 'd come downstairs he 'd been a different man . |
| 6 | ‘ For the first time I began to wonder about the camp and the people I should find inside it . |
| 7 | Okay so that 's how you , that 's how you 'd do three quarters you 'd say well I could find a quarter of it and then cut it all up into quarters and then I 'll take three pieces , three quarters . |
| 8 | If I want nothing but to prepare the best Chinese meal I can manage then I should just follow John 's instructions . |
| 9 | We needed a single set of business figures and measures we could monitor so we could focus the quality initiatives . |
| 10 | Apparently it means that while for most of the time I will behave normally I shall be prone to sudden ourbursts of rage and obscenity . |
| 11 | Every time I could get away I used to drive down to New York , where I 'm originally from , and go to the Paradise Garage . ’ |
| 12 | Erm there 's something up at Matchland I 'd like though we have n't succumbed to our set of lights yet actually . |