Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pers pn] [vb base] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly my personal reaction when hearing of the unexpected death of someone I know has always been , ‘ I must wait to have it confirmed in some sort of irrevocable way because I 'm sure I must have got it wrong ’ . |
| 2 | But in our society the self-denial of which we speak has a moral dimension which is not strongly recognised in all civilisations . |
| 3 | ‘ A significant chunk of what we earn goes on child-minding . |
| 4 | Most of what we know has been taught to us as children , and , as children , we have adopted ignorance and prejudices which have become more and more fixed as life goes on . |
| 5 | Of course , it is true that outside the small clearing of what we know lies the unexplored forest of what we do not know . |
| 6 | We believe it is valuable to give our trainees a rounded appreciation of our business from the outset , not least because so much of what we do depends upon high levels of teamwork . |
| 7 | We calculate that on an estimate of what we think has happened to employment in the quarter erm and that calculation tells us , and it seems to be re reasonably right in the sense that it 's got a , a good tr a good record of tracking erm the official numbers when they eventually come out . |
| 8 | There is a curious phenomenon of hermeneutic delay : much of what we read consists either of illumination of the enigmas of a preceding chapter , or new enigmas . |
| 9 | in this , as more and more people become concerned with their health and the effect of what they eat has on it I 'd think about your English in that and how you put it together , that there sentence |
| 10 | However , most of what they say has been very constructive and it is taking on board these improvements where possible that give us a better service to our customers . |
| 11 | The rot of what they do invades their brains . |
| 12 | Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness . |
| 13 | Some of what they found has been reclaimed by its owners but there 's plenty left . |
| 14 | Even in these circumstances , where one might expect unemployed people to be net receivers , McKee shows that they give as well as receive and the list of what they give looks remarkably similar to the list of items which they receive . |
| 15 | In an extreme case , someone may act on them for the reason that , or on the principle that , ‘ a little bit of what you fancy does you good ’ . |
| 16 | Of course , if it is a celebration or a special night out , ‘ a little of what you fancy does you good ’ , but try to keep the consumption down . |
| 17 | While we firmly believe that " a little of what you fancy does you good " , you need to understand that none of the drinks or foods in this group are good , when taken in excess , for the human body . |
| 18 | MOST people enjoy a tipple or two and a little of what you fancy does n't do you any harm . |
| 19 | The sequence of what you say makes a considerable difference to success . |
| 20 | Once you get up on the roof then it 's euphoria , there 's anarchy reigning , you 're in the public eye , the sun 's shining , er and everyone 's quite happy for a day or so , but of course you get cold and a bit hungry , and er then the sort of import of what you face starts to come through . |
| 21 | The information you need to keep for everything you read includes the following . |
| 22 | Look out for new products and colours , but remember to go with what you feel looks good and works best for you . |
| 23 | Since the decision of the nineteen seventy eight congress to appoint national and regional health and safety officers the legal and political context within which they operate has changed dramatically with more legila legislation . |
| 24 | The legal and political context within which they operate has changed dramatically with more legilay legislation . |
| 25 | The tradition within which I work contains a choice between two approaches to the questions of epistemology . |
| 26 | I am sorry to observe so little Care taken of the Education of our Youth designed for the Sea , even such as have a Prospect of commanding Ships either in the Government or Merchant Service : The element in which they live renders them rough and boisterous which makes a little Education more necessary to give them an early Byass . |
| 27 | However , further description of the context in which they operate suggests a range of factors not yet common in the UK . |
| 28 | The way in which we breathe affects our physical , mental and emotional well-being . |
| 29 | The extent , however , to which that marks them off from what are typically thought of as more ‘ objective ’ features of the world in which we live depends on how far one thinks that has a character independent of any form of sentient experience . |
| 30 | Christianity in the contemporary world in which we live has become a matter of private belief and personal preference in a society that tolerates any old religious beliefs ( and new ones ) so long as they do not interfere with the running of the machine . |