Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thoo should 'ave waited for me afore fastening 'im . |
| 2 | However this wo n't quite do either — one can say : ( 84 ) When I 'm in the office , you can come to see me where come glosses as " movement towards the location of the speaker at the time of some other specified event " ( let us call this time reference time ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Keith would sooner help someone than hurt them . |
| 4 | ‘ It is easier and quicker to do a task for someone than promote independence . |
| 5 | No doubt those whom we so recently persuaded to seek their bread elsewhere are hungry because they are idle , vicious , and ill-conditioned and think it easier to rob such innocent and harmless passers-by as I than to toil in the fields . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Not much to tell , ’ she confessed , her voice as soft as his because talking seemed an intrusion , as though it might break the spell of enchantment she felt wrapped in . |
| 7 | There would be men enough left with them to ensure their safe withdrawal , not enough to make it worth his while disabling them . |
| 8 | I was thinking about his while stuck in a traffic jam the other day . |
| 9 | Anthea was told to interview someone while bouncing up and down on a trampoline . |
| 10 | The astonished reptile released its grip just long enough for Laba to break free and stagger off down the track — with the serpent in hot pursuit apparently loudly vocalizing with the same sibilant barks which we were later to hear ourselves while filming a python hunt . |
| 11 | The peaks of these helmets , however , were sharpened up with the aid of a file and ‘ nutting ’ someone whilst wearing such a weapon , he claimed , could literally chop their head off . |
| 12 | Or what 's that word that Lizzie — 'er as married my grandson — ‘ as picked up ? |
| 13 | Virtually all libraries did nominate someone as having responsibility for training ( only six libraries did not ) so at first sight it would appear that theoretically at least item ( 1 ) above has been largely fulfilled . |
| 14 | As you will discover , I am very much a believer that we largely teach ourselves when learning new skills and that the main purpose of a book or instructor is to help clarify exactly what your aims are . |
| 15 | 40 major London road schemes abandoned ; ‘ Important to commit ourselves as opposed to roads ’ |
| 16 | We do not want to carry the image of middle age in other people 's eyes , nor do we wish to think of ourselves as getting old . |
| 17 | We like to see ourselves as born mavericks and fixers . |
| 18 | Here a question may be raised as to just what we mean when we think of ourselves as plunged by the twentieth century into a chaos of relativism . |
| 19 | Looking forward , and viewing ourselves as contributing to the development of provisionally held theories , it seems to offer no more than the hope that we might make a contributions even if we do not really understand what , how , or to what . |
| 20 | It means that we can be involved straightaway with patient 's management when they 're admitted to hospitals within the Oxfordshire region , and so decisions can be made between the referring doctors and ourselves as regards the best policy of treatment . |
| 21 | Some of us constantly tell stories where we depict ourselves as having the qualities we secretly think we lack or that others need reminding of . |
| 22 | We saw ourselves as having to do erm a considerable number of cross-sections for calculating , or enabling the P Q S to calculate earthworks quantities . |
| 23 | I think the important thing to remember there is that erm we regard ourselves as having and people who work in universities regard themselves as having a special obligation and indeed to use their own special skills in order indeed to define the needs of society in their own special field and then to do what they can to satisfy . |
| 24 | We do n't see ourselves as special people and we do n't see ourselves as having specific financial credentials , although some members of our group , not myself , may have those , but we try by listening to the people who 've elected us and listening to in general comments that are made from outside the council , which is a terribly closed body . |
| 25 | It must not be thought that such differences are mere matters of imagination , and that we take the sensations to be different because we represent each of them to ourselves as occupying a different place . |
| 26 | Gaviria alone among the major candidates stressed a determination to continue Barco 's campaign to defeat the drug cartels , rejecting the possibility of political dialogue with them although modifying Barco 's stance by opposing the " indiscriminate " extradition of drug traffickers to the United States . |
| 27 | Given the very real threat of political vetting , many in the community think it is better to say nothing than risk the wrath of government . |
| 28 | I would rather abandon Eton , Winchester , Harrow and all the rest of them than sacrifice the advantage of the grammar school . ’ |
| 29 | As always with selective , individual cases , there is more to them than meets the eye . |
| 30 | Loaded symbols Giles Sutherland reviews an exhibition of Philip Braham 's landscape paintings and finds more to them than meets the eye |