Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [prep] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So every pitchfork used to come out er one after another as if you had numbers on them you know . |
| 2 | Men spoke of that as if it was a heroic thing , but it was Thorkel Fóstri , he found , who had done the actual killing , and his father would n't speak about it at all . |
| 3 | And now murder has been done , and you are as guilty of that as if you had struck the blow yourself ! ’ |
| 4 | We see it in its most obvious form in the interactions between species when one species manages to control the behaviour of another as if it were a puppet . |
| 5 | Boy watched all of this as if he was seeing fragments of one , continuous and baffling programme . |
| 6 | Sales promotion is typical of this in that it need not cost a lot of money and its success can be clearly evaluated in terms of turnover and profit objectives . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You can put one of these on if you like . |
| 8 | So I thought well I 'll carry one of these for when I 'm going out in my car to which , you know , and if somebody does come up to me I can use it in a positive manner while in a split second time for me , hopefully beca , cos of my range of work |
| 9 | He has been like that for since he 's been with her he has |
| 10 | Now what the bloody hell would I have done something like that for unless something bad had happened ? |
| 11 | The entire text and formatting of one document can be inserted into another as if it were a block of text being inserted from elsewhere in the same document ( see Task 12 ) . |
| 12 | Oh Lord we as offer ourselves to you , we think of those who have been unable to be with us today for whatever reason , some on holiday , and we just pray for your blessing to be with each one , and to be with all of as we ask it in your name for your praise and glory . |
| 13 | There 's a blank page it 's okay I might be able to use that er as a structure for more for when you 've got ta run training courses at a lot of the time and sample three is just another side that 's erm that one of sample two is landscape goes across the page this is . |
| 14 | It is sometimes admitted that there are dangers in this in that they can take the wrong decisions , about new technology , or marketing a product , or about industrial relations , and it is implied that if these decisions lead to the wrong strategy then all will be lost for everyone . |
| 15 | A popular paper differed from this in that its large circulation ensured that newsprint and ink was its major cost category ( 36% ) , followed by production costs ( 30% ) and editorial costs ( 13% ) . |
| 16 | Next thing they know , all hell breaks loose upstairs : they find their best brass candlesticks snapped in half as if they were toothpicks , and the pot where their dinner is cooking on the hearth fills up with ashes . |
| 17 | They allied themselves with Western influenced opponents of the Qajar and were influential in the revolution of 1906 which further weaken the authority of the Shah by creating a constitutional monarchs , similar to that of Belgium-and which remained nominally in force until 1979 . |
| 18 | The concept of referential rigidity in the sense in which it is used in the above theory , on the other hand , goes beyond this in that it already presupposes the idea of " per se " existence . |
| 19 | If hunting were banned on all of that it would only have a small marginal effect but we can as Mr said only ban hunting on land we both own and control , land in hand , that actually totals a hundred and fifty eight acres , slightly smaller than Victoria Park but that includes road , bridleways , land with no access , S S S Is , Sites of Special Scientific Interest , land awaiting disposal the land capable of being hunted and in hand totals fifty two acres about as much of Victoria Park as I can see from my front window . |
| 20 | ‘ Not at all as if you 'd just dismounted from a horse . |
| 21 | And in fact that showed no relief to the A sixty one at all in that it was quicker for traffic to actually pass er through on the A sixty one going to the to the traffic model and the all the assumptions built into it , er than it was to use a southern bypass er out to the inner northern route and then back to the A sixty one south of Killinghall . |