Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [to-vb] [conj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see I were born in nineteen hundred so that means to say that when it 's nineteen ninety eight I 'll be ninety eight , I think they did that so I could er reckon me age up more easily . |
| 2 | Yes , you you 've got to extend the route , well of course you 've got to put up , trolley poles every for about forty yards and then of course there was two lengths of trolley wire that had to go because as you know trolley buses used to have two arms , positive and negative supply and er , of course the bus had to come back er alongside the premiu the outward route , it come on , so you had four wires up there and the cost of copper wire was terrific so the motor buses were developed and we expenim experimented with the buses on , on extensions mainly but when the extensions were finished we then begradged because trolley wires were then beginning to wear out , rather than replace them they would convert a trolley route into a bus route , and erm because the erm , there was a lot of people hated to see the demise of the trolley buses because they were so clean and silent and the buses came , you got the deal sloke and lumbering of the old engines , that a lot of people hated to see the trolley buses go but cos that was the , the reason that they went . |
| 3 | Before either of them could say a word , he turned and began to speak as though they had asked him a question . |
| 4 | " Why , as a matter of interest , " said Martin , calmly , as though the discussion up to this point had been quite unreliable , " did you have so many children , Candida ? " and Mrs Denham , strangely , took off her glasses , and frowned , and began to speak as though she had indeed up to this point been talking nonsense . |
| 5 | The acussed alledged that he could not forsee the harm he would do , and proceeded to argue that since he acted inavertently , he did not committ the offence . |
| 6 | Putting his hands in his pockets , and trying to look as though he did this every day , he fixed his eyes on the target . |
| 7 | He 's perfectly worldly , knows how systems work , but chooses to act as though they do n't matter . ’ |
| 8 | The best thing for me to tell you is that you must listen to what you are told about ‘ god ’ , but try to remember that as you get older , you will have to make up your own mind what to believe . |