Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [noun sg] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or dare I hope that Miss Havisham would make my fortune and marry me to Estella ? |
| 2 | ‘ If we had enough money we could buy her ticket and put it through her letterbox without letting her know who it was from , ’ said Anne . |
| 3 | However , Mr McAllister says that three days after Margaret McLaughlin 's death Beattie did not know her name and thought it was someone else who had died . |
| 4 | The primary phase should help pupils to learn to understand themselves , their relationships with others and the world around them ; should stimulate their curiosity and teach them to apply it purposefully and usefully ; and should develop the foundations for later learning and those personal qualities and attitudes which , if acquired during the primary phase , provide a sound base for what follows . |
| 5 | A few successful trips to restaurants will not only be enjoyable for the patient , but they will boost his confidence and help him to realize that he can take part in normal social life . |
| 6 | But here in Chichester Chairman , it 's er a pretty serious situation where you 've got a a small river causing tremendous volumes of water er levels of which I think have never been experienced with anybody er going through a very small city built in eighteen hundreds I do n't know what time and date you know , but a very long time ago . |
| 7 | You can count your money and burn it within the nod of a buffalo 's head , but only the Great Spirit can count the grains of sand and the blades of grass of these plains . |
| 8 | However , you can revoke your word and take her back . ’ |
| 9 | Although they continued throughout to support Mrs Thatcher , a number were known privately to have expressed the belief that a failure to secure outright victory on the first ballot might irretrievably damage her authority and force her to stand down . |
| 10 | In most couples either one or both will prove not to be carriers , but if they are , we can give them counselling and reassure them . |
| 11 | I ca n't tell anyone , she thought ; people would n't believe me , they 'd just pat my hand and give me tranquillizers . |
| 12 | Here 's a crusty roll — must n't show my ignorance and cut it with a knife , have to tear it to pieces as if it was my worst enemy . |
| 13 | I pictured doing an impossible thing — I thought that if I got too close to coming , I could somehow angle my leg and contort it so that I caught hold of my cock in my bent knee and squeezed it like a nut in a nutcracker until it stopped wanting to come . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Otherwise the King 's lawyers will spin their web and have you hanged at Tyburn . |
| 15 | But to stay , to lie in his arms and each time know that he was dreaming of another woman , would not just break her heart but shatter it . |
| 16 | The old girl should do her duty and send me a postcard if she can take the time off from her toy-boys . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll finish his bed and get him to lie on his side to make it easy for thee . |
| 18 | Why did Stapleton beat his wife and tie her up ? |
| 19 | Why did he withhold his hand and leave me yet alive ? |
| 20 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's another legacy of £1,000 , this time to his friend Martin Burger , ‘ more than enough for that new pair of spectacles which I hope may improve his judgement and help him to see the obvious . ’ |
| 22 | A tube of Winsor blue for Alan Tate , spectacles for Burger … ‘ which I hope may improve his judgement and help him to see the obvious . ’ |
| 23 | Does n't matter what creed or colour you are , as long as you are mad ! 16-18 . |
| 24 | Property or other assets can be put to better use and , on a very personal level , what transpires soon should gladden your heart and make you aware that , after many false starts or enforced separations , one close attachment can become very much part of your day-to-day existence . |
| 25 | A pair of racing shoes could lift your performance or leave you with an appealing but unnecessary extravagance . |
| 26 | Now you can land your kite and take it off again without having to run with it . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll ring my lawyer and have you sued for libel . ’ |
| 28 | He had no need , no need at all to say that , beautiful though he might have mentioned he thought her , she just did not hold those sort of charms for him — which was what he more or less did say when he drawled , ‘ Would you think me dreadfully ungallant should I mop my brow and tell you — that 's a relief ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It was then I told her I would divorce my wife and marry her . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ If you do n't shut up at once and sit down I shall remove my belt and let you have it with the end that has the buckle ! ’ |