Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] [Wh det] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's something for my wife which I ca n't afford cos I 've been off sick so I thought it would be something nice for her . |
| 2 | this , to see whether Diane can help Gail as well cos if Gail said , fine I can then start identifying some of my work which I can then tr train Diane up to do , you know phone calls and stuff and things , |
| 3 | Nothing and nobody in this programme questioned the medic 's oath with which it began : ‘ I will keep silence as to anything I have seen or heard in the practice of my profession which it would be improper to divulge . ’ |
| 4 | It must be remembered that it is often difficult to get people to express themselves freely , that there is a tendency in any survey for interviewees to say what they think they are expected to say , and that individuals frequently find it hard to express subjective views on an aspect of their life which they might never have consciously considered before . |
| 5 | For the younger workers , in particular , mechanization has become a badge of their modernity which they can show off to otherwise uncomprehending townies in a manner which the latter can understand . |
| 6 | The patient may try to use his ‘ good ’ side to compensate for the affected side of his body which he can not move at will . |
| 7 | Mr Faulks said of the application for the house loan : ‘ What we say he was doing here is , being unable to obtain loans in any other way , he is pretending to be selling his house to this fictitious person in order to get the bank to give him £43,000 on the strength of his house which they would otherwise not have given him . ’ |
| 8 | In fact … one of them was stuffing something through the wire and bars of his cage which they should n't be doing and he did n't much like it … |
| 9 | Many of those aspects of your personality which you may have perceived in a negative way might be regarded by others as positive elements of your character . |
| 10 | Erm , after the last meeting , erm I wrote to Mr Dicks of Newton Sherwood about the er electoral role they er draft one with one or two amendments , I also wrote back to the Nottinghamshire valuation tribunal , who asked us for er maps and centres of our population which we could n't supply , also wrote to the services , erm which will supply er Smiths erm bungalow on Poor Lane , informing them of our interest off Poor Lane , erm , and also to erm footpaths off this to Mr Jones about the same thing , because Poor Lane is public footpath , erm subsequently I spoke to him on the telephone and erm he advised us that erm they have an interest in it , erm , have received from Notts County Council a little booklet , which |
| 11 | She said the girl discussed with her mother what she would do if something similar happened to her , before clamming up and denying she was a victim . |
| 12 | In other words , you train a bird of prey to do under your control what it would do naturally in the wild . |
| 13 | And in my view what they could n't achieve on that night in Parliament in the nineteen forties is now being achieved by stealth , slicing bits and pieces away as they go along . |
| 14 | See , Sue has n't come back to me , the science department has n't come to me so I 'm not , I may leave that and say , and do something like that next year in a module or wait until I 've finished again I do n't mind , that 's still something in my mind which I would like to do but because talking to the form tutor 's , what I had written down as a fait a complet erm they 're not too keen so therefore I opened up and say you know , which particular things they were interested in the banking one they are very interested in the environment one , yes , within the school tidy upping area that they would like to do but I 've got ta be able to , and I do n't when planting season is or if I wan na put , be able to put flowers in etcetera , you see what I mean ? |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm tryin' to work out in my mind what we could do in this district if a general rebellion should break out . ’ |
| 16 | There was no doubt in my mind what I would do and I 've never regretted going into the business because we 've seen it grow enormously . |
| 17 | By the time she had finished she had it clearly in her mind what she must do . |
| 18 | But in summer the male ruff is an amazing-looking bird with a variously coloured ‘ ruff ’ of long feathers round its neck which it can fan out in nuptial display . |
| 19 | He felt for the first time in his life what it must be like to be one of them and was overwhelmed with a feeling of sadness and futility . |
| 20 | In skill terminology the interviewer uses the interview to create a model in his mind which he can use to predict the behaviour of the individual interviewee in a work situation , a stress situation , an illness or whatever an interview is about . |
| 21 | I think sometimes that we have a shade of the undergraduate in our government which we could well do without to strengthen and consolidate this nation . |
| 22 | All these can be covered by a simple set of wording in your Will which we would be happy to provide . |
| 23 | You write an essay , you imagine in your head what you might be going to put in your essay . |
| 24 | Ultimately , there are things in your training which you will accept — and those you may reject . |
| 25 | McAllister , coughing slightly against the stench of the room — Dr Neil was hardened to it — laid the towelling and the scissors on the clean square , and said briskly to Dr Neil , ‘ Is there anything in your bag which you might need urgently ? |
| 26 | You can use DATA in conjunction with READ to include data in your program which you may need to change from time to time , but which does not need to be different every time you run the program . |
| 27 | And he said that I had perceived correctly , that he might do nothing without my goodwill which he would strive to gain , if I would allow it . |
| 28 | ‘ I seem to have some other side to my personality which I can bring to certain parts , ’ he says . |
| 29 | Because I know what I 'm going to say to any kids who have the audacity to come to my house which they wo n't but erm and I 'm sure a lot of people do so the rest of the year we we 're encouraging children not to approach strangers and everything else and then this one day of the year or maybe two days or maybe the whole run-up from now until November the fifth you 've got kids begging on the street penny for the guy and all that sort of thing . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection ( 1 ) above , where a person , having possession or control ( lawfully or not ) of property belonging to another , parts with the property under a condition as to its return which he may not be able to perform , this ( if done for purposes of his own and without the other 's authority ) amounts to treating the property as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights . |