Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [conj] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the females ' ranges are smaller than those of individual males they overlap those of several of them and may therefore turn up in more than one male community ; females in oestrus range widely , consorting with a male for a few days . |
| 2 | Except for whatever part of her that might once have been Jenny . |
| 3 | She has a great future ahead of her and will undoubtedly improve as here serve and volleys do . |
| 4 | This is the only fault which I can find in his character though it bears little importance as it takes nothing away from the readers ' love of him and may even increase it due to his helplessness . |
| 5 | He will strike against me and may well try to hurt you . |
| 6 | Many girls fell in love with him but could only admire him from afar . |
| 7 | I do not yet understand it , but although I was once a keen and proud European , there are things in it that would now make me one of the most sceptical . |
| 8 | The Socialist leadership 's sensitivity to FNTT members ' expectations meant that agrarian issues pressed even more urgently upon it than would otherwise have been the case . |
| 9 | Most reptiles , having buried or concealed their eggs in some way , abandon them , but a few stay beside them and will valiantly defend them against robbers . |
| 10 | Even though I 'm not one to go out , some days you wish you did n't have someone dependent on you and could just go out and about . |
| 11 | He was fourteen years old , blind and hardly able to walk , but they had grown much attached to him and could hardly endure the thought of his death . |
| 12 | I suppose there is n't a little knob on it that would just happen to work zeros ? |
| 13 | I always wanted to ask her about it but could never bring myself to say something as ridiculous as , ‘ How was your day ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It 's equally possible , sir , that she knows all about it and may well choose to tell me something . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to think about it and will probably make my mind up in the next day or two . ’ |
| 16 | The pine wood looked just the same as ever , it always did , it was always dark and dense with very narrow passages through it that would surely allow nothing bigger than a fox to weave its way through . |
| 17 | They did not seem very interested in business , though they ran up big drinks bills for us and would occasionally ruffle our hair or squeeze our balls with an experienced touch , weighing us up , as it were . |
| 18 | Haveing therefore an intire Confidence that his said Highnesse the Prince of Orange will perfect the deliverance soe farr advanced by him and will still preserve them from the violation of their rights which they have here asserted and from all other attempts upon their Religion Rights and Liberties . |