Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to imply , for one thing , that if someone has very strong preferences about what happens beyond his own person he thereby renders it important that certain things be done or left undone which have little or nothing to do with his personal life . |
| 2 | Seeing everyone engaged in their own private confessionals , she sipped her drink with renewed confidence . |
| 3 | A proof must be in the form known as " proof of debt " ( whether the form prescribed by the rules and set out in Sched 4 to the rules as Form 6.37 or a substantially similar form , see App C , form 34 ) and must be signed by the creditor or someone authorised on his behalf ( r 6.69(3) ) . |
| 4 | Next door , through the partition wall , some shouts were audible , so muffled it was impossible to tell whether it was a violent assault or someone asking for his bath to be turned off . |
| 5 | ‘ Where I go in my free time is none of your business , you interfering old cow . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It is like a house I dreamed of once , where I wandered through its rooms for an eternity . ’ |
| 7 | If the hon. Member for Oldham , West or I wrote to our local tax inspector and claimed that someone had put a form through our letterbox requiring only our signature for the taxation officer to open up our tax affairs for the past 30 years on the offchance that we might be entitled to something , that would be farcical . |
| 8 | But Rory was not it , and Mallachy confused her , his powerful body and powerful dislike of something or somebody blurring in her mind . |
| 9 | Article 85(1) of the EC treaty prohibits undertakings between firms and restrictive practices which may affect trade between member states , or which have as their object or effect the restriction of competition within the EC . |
| 10 | Home was Croydon , where she lived with her divorced mother in a council flat , supported by social security , supplemented occasionally by haphazard maintenance payments from her father , who was in the Merchant Navy and had not been seen since Val was five . |
| 11 | Aged 18 , she was given £50,000 from the fund to buy her famous Colherne Court flat , where she lived until her engagement to Charles . |
| 12 | Mrs license returned home after two weeks in hospital where she died from her cancers |
| 13 | Brenda continues in Creole until just before " but to dance " , then switches back to London English for the last part of her turn , where she continues with her narration of actual events : " and then and then we star%ed to talk and all the rest of it and tha% " s it " — but switches to Creole for her final " punchline " : " full stop . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not involved with Mr Wyatt , ’ Claudia said , walking quickly into her office , where she settled at her desk with a determined look on her face . |
| 15 | A few days later the Troop were shown aerial photographs of five tugs towing the sinking ship towards a sandbank , where she settled with her cargo of 5,000 tons of copper . |
| 16 | In leaving the room , swelling for the first time with tears , she had collided awkwardly with Gordon 's mother , who supposed she could stand where she liked in her own house , and even if Edward had called after her , she would not have been able to hear him . |
| 17 | And the angry princess , she , too , died where she sat on her horse ; a boghole opened at her feet and she sank into it . |
| 18 | Once inside he left her in a dim , dingy room where she sat with her bundle and the firm belief that the cruel joke would soon be over and she 'd be taken back to her ward . |
| 19 | Abigail was placed in permanent care at the age of three in a mental hospital where she remained until her death in 1971 . |
| 20 | She was carried screaming from the siege house , where she lives with her parents . |
| 21 | But oh , the glory and the convenience of skiing in resorts where you step into your bindings and ski down to the lift without setting foot to snow , where you cruise all day on networks so meticulously designed that you have but to descend to find another fan of lifts at your disposal . |
| 22 | And late at night the barrier here where you slip in your parking-token is often open , and you can just drive straight through . ’ |
| 23 | Where you travel on your day out of the ordinary is up to you . |
| 24 | No , last week you probably would have got the little joining letter with map , but you probably talked to people in the branch who may have been there , or you talked to your manager , or you picked up the phone and said , how do I get here , you may have even got the map out if you were driving , to actually see what junction you came off the motorways and things like that . |
| 25 | If you 're complete beginners , active , familiar with camping or caravanning conditions , and two or you pay for our ‘ Introduction to Yachting ’ course in Nidri , then we know you 'll be safe to skipper your own yacht for the second week on flotilla . |
| 26 | The ‘ Do you remember when ? ’ stories can be so important in getting to know the person who has died , in hearing about how he or she appeared to their surviving family and friends . |
| 27 | SIR — I have just returned with my family from Tignes , France , where we cheered on my son Graham Nugent and his fellow team members in the fifth Paralympics . |
| 28 | At one end of the town was a bank where we went on our first day to change some money . |
| 29 | Instead , they may receive a reduced pension or one based on their husband 's contributions ; or one topping up the other . |
| 30 | Well if you 've got a big bill or something hanging over your head , that will send you quite erm into the dumps . |