Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [pers pn] [modal v] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they believe in is that everybody out there is out to grab as much as they can for their own private interest and they 're prepared to meet them halfway on that . |
| 2 | Erm , I think we ought to make it very clear again , that we can now trace calls , and er , I hope the press are noting that and making as much as they can of it , because that 's the sort of thing that helps to remove malicious calls , which go which cost a lot of money , and a lot of time , and also put somebody else 's life in danger when an appliance has been called out to something that it 's not required for . |
| 3 | It might be a good guess today if I could say that most people either done as much as they could with their model and had this |
| 4 | Of course , people would do as much as they could on their own , partly because it was n't easy to send for a vet in a faraway place like Baldersdale , which did n't have many telephones , and partly because of the expense . |
| 5 | We can learn more about ourselves from monkeys than from microbes , and looking around our modern human world it is clear that we need to discover as much as we can about ourselves . |
| 6 | Two sergeants and I stayed behind to try to salvage as much as we could of our stores of food . |
| 7 | He goes a dirty red colour and wriggles about as much as he can considering his condition , and I wonder if he 's shy , but then he explodes and I see that it 's anger , not modesty . |
| 8 | Used get as much as he could of them , I do n't know was it to keep the the amount of them down or not . |
| 9 | yeah I know , but its still very hard work , and I 'm ten years older than he is I , I just did as much as I could for him really , I mean I did more mixing than he did , I did nearly all the mixing |
| 10 | I saved up these incidents to amuse Leslie in my letters , and related as much as I could about our domestic and leisure activities . |
| 11 | I would n't charge I I I 'd try and get as much as I could off him cos he was working . |
| 12 | I removed as much as I could with my fingers , turned off the lights , added more plants and threw in one of those Nitrasafe bags . |
| 13 | Many people think you can only do what the punchcard tells you to do but , being me , I always try to get as much as I can from them — even with a lace card I 'll try knitting it in different ways . |
| 14 | To get this sort of and if you can talk as much as you can with your lovely |
| 15 | Stress the appeal of the building and make as much as you can of its history and contribution to the street . |
| 16 | Explain to them as much as you can about what 's going on and emphasise that they are in no way to blame . |
| 17 | Pimples can cause much anguish , so it pays to learn as much as you can about your skin , and to get the help of your doctor or a dermatologist at a hospital skin clinic . |
| 18 | Choose a product and try to find out as much as you can about it . |
| 19 | Put yourself as much as you can into their shoes . |
| 20 | " If there 's any trouble , get out of it , " he said , " and take as many as you can with you . " |
| 21 | Age Concern in Liverpool claims that pensioners are paying up to 40% more than they should for their insurance . |
| 22 | He recognized , with a familiar confusion of self-disgust and hopelessness , that he was telling more than he ought in his usual attempt to propitiate her , to get her on his side . |
| 23 | Admittedly North Americans have done much less than we should in our management of free enterprise communication . |
| 24 | We keep as much power as we can in Britain and we devolve as much of that as we can to our regions . |