Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb mod] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blanche : I ca n't stand a naked light bulb , any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action . |
| 2 | Meiriona Davies ( Mrs Bielawski , formerly Mrs Noon ) , is an experienced careers of ficer of twenty years ' standing : ‘ Still doing it , but government policy means we shall probably soon cease to exist as a public service , so I shall no doubt be looking for something else unless by great good fortune the Tories lose power ! ’ |
| 3 | When she retires next month , challenging behaviour will be only one of the many items she will have been able to put a tick next to on the learning difficulties agenda , although she would the last to claim there is nothing left to do . |
| 4 | In a cinema , for example , although you would no doubt forgive me if I shouted ‘ Move ! ’ at you if I had seen that a heavy chandelier was falling on to your head , you might not be so tolerant if I used the same formulation , requesting the same action , if you were simply obscuring my view of the screen . |
| 5 | I do n't really see that there 's such a dividing line , because I think if you 're a housewife and you have a beautiful milk jug , which is perhaps very simple but has lovely lines to it , I think even if it 's only subconsciously you get more pleasure out of using that than you would a rather cracked , grubby , plastic jug . |
| 6 | Reliability is all important in any branch of flying , so you will no doubt expect that same reliability from us , at Forest Aviation . |
| 7 | Before that you had the option of paying additional contributions to cover previous service so you will no doubt know if you actually took took up that option . |
| 8 | The , the minute , the note last time said a pool of cand , they , they will be told that a pool of possible candidat candidates will be contacted to attend for final interview once it 's decided to go ahead with the new appointment , so you could the thr the the three , or whatever it is that you are not putting forward , that their , that our interest in them has ceased |
| 9 | I feel that in some senses it becomes almost about a certain strain of purity — that we would rather have a demonstration of 50 people on maybe a fuller , total political programme , than we would a demonstration of 50,000 people on maybe more limited aims but nevertheless political aims that we do feel carry us forward , but which could draw into activity a broader range of people . |
| 10 | We can work using the x-form faster than we can the sequence form simply because we 've been using the former for years . |
| 11 | Do you think women feel that they can approach you more easily than they would a male director ? |
| 12 | It is indeed true that balance of payments deficits can be sustained for longer than they could a generation ago ; we would have never got this far without a much worse sterling crisis if that were not the case . |
| 13 | Great care was subsequently taken not to move Chalmers more than necessary other than to place a stretcher beneath him , although he could no doubt have walked from the field . |
| 14 | The EC could absorb the 16.5 million East Germans , if it came to that , more easily than it could the two countries whose applications already lie on the table in Brussels — Austria with her backward deck-cargo of neutrality , and Turkey , with her GDP well below that of Portugal . |
| 15 | And he loved a horse better than he would a Rolls Royce ! |
| 16 | If I had n't been elected , I doubt if I would every have had to request to ‘ Take some gentle exercise with Jerry Hall ’ . |
| 17 | And I want to make if I can a couple of deeper coloured cushions and if I can I want to make tie-backs for the curtains because everything in that room is so blooming pale . |
| 18 | I see if I can a few of erm one of those |
| 19 | Well I 'll see if I can the te telly I must have a . |
| 20 | Is it after cos I 'll a |
| 21 | In the chapters to come , contrast if you will the demanding world of the schoolroom , as our participants see it , with the world of ritual and formal genesis of a respected self in the putting on the regalia of the club that reigns on the terraces . |
| 22 | Imagine with me Chairman if you will the thoughts of someone trapped by some misfortune in the midst of the wreckage of a road traffic accident on the M 1 motorway Southbound between junctions twenty one and twenty that 's at Nutterworth or Northbound between twenty one and twenty two or Westbound on the M 69 they 'll be thinking the fire brigade 'll be here in a minute or two . |
| 23 | Just get hold of the aerial and just sort of twist it round and see if you can a good enough picture . |
| 24 | one for the character name and a extra one point or something for , if you can the other one yeah . |
| 25 | erm it does n't give an answer , but if you could the only answer it could give is that what my tables say is wrong . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 27 | Given the central objective of this category of public interest immunity as ‘ the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force , ’ given the grave public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice on the part of some at least of those who served in the now disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , given the extensive publicity already attaching to the documents here in question following the appellant 's successful appeal , it seems to us nothing short of absurd to suppose that those who co-operated in this investigation — largely other police officers and court officials — will regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses will withhold it , were this court now to release the documents to C.N.L. to enable them to defeat if they can an allegedly corrupt claim in damages . |
| 28 | Is it this , is it that , is it the next thing until they 're prepared to tell you what it is , that 's the way you ask them , cos they 'll no volunteer what it is , cos what you 're looking for is a final objection for them , right now you say oh that 's a load of rubbish that does nay what , but how can you sit and study that and you learn how to use it customers , right , on the objection which is the hardest objection for any sales person to deal with , you know yourself |
| 29 | He curled up to avoid if he could the worst of the blows . |
| 30 | There you are , trembling and writhing with lust , feeling passion in every corpuscle , and the penis is snoring away regardless , leaving you in a state of mortal terror , wondering whether it will every work again without the assistance of a rope and pulley . |