Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [pron] [adv] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you could imagine yourself being without the radio , T. V. , or telephone then you just might come close to imagining how difficult it must have been to spread or hand on the message of Christianity . |
| 2 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 3 | I think of the gym ; I wonder how I ever could have been there . |
| 4 | If it is difficult for you to get to the post office , the coloured pages in the book explain how someone else can draw the payment for you . |
| 5 | It is in the descent of the Son to earth , and his return to the Father , that we learn how we too can relate to God 's happiness . |