Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 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 ) .
2 When the Treaties of Rome creating the Common Market and Euratom had been signed in 1957 , de Gaulle had criticized them and told aides that , if he came back to power , he would " destroy " them .
3 ‘ But by the time I was eighteen , I realised that , as much as I loved studying the past , my greatest joy came from — well , I suppose you 'd describe it as planning things and watching them grow . ’
4 There was a certain rapprochement though , as Mary came down with her things in the back-pack Rufus had lent her and wearing jeans and a pair of sandals for the first time for days .
5 We photographed it and asked booksellers and sales force for their reactions .
6 C&G tell us that named diplomas and certificates in other subject areas will be considered in due course .
7 If so I propose to install it tonight and invite you along to see it and make suggestions before you leave . ’
8 They 're the ones who get everybody else to do what they want them to do , like die for them and work for them and get them into power and protect them and pay taxes and buy them toys , and they 're the ones who 'll survive another big war , in their bunkers and tunnels .
9 Perhaps you can expand them and provide figures and accounts , Captain Meredith . ’
10 1955 , he wrote that all the Nazgûl save their chief ‘ feared water , and were unwilling , except in dire need , to enter it or to cross streams unless dryshod by a bridge ’ ( UT , p. 343 ) .
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