Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either way , it would damage the walls , and Astorre and Pesaro between them might manage to scale them . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm going to waste my time visiting two dealers , both of whom will try to sell me items I do n't want — and one of which I know is a nineteenth-century fake . |
| 3 | If there were enough of them , none of them would dare to pin him down , none of them could claim she was anything special . |
| 4 | ‘ All the thieves in London know where he lives , but none of them would dare to rob him . |
| 5 | She had planned to get over to her mother 's by the afternoon , but the day had been so rare that neither of them could bear to finish it . |
| 6 | There was nothing any of them could do to save him , scattered and outnumbered now as they were . |
| 7 | He seeks to provide a substantive characterization of the concept of reality which will enable him to do two things : first , to show how certain rules and procedures are logically correct , how employment of them will suffice to guide us towards knowledge of reality ; secondly , to show how it can be rational for a self-controlled agent to seek to contribute to knowledge of reality . |
| 8 | She was a poor companion — they had nothing in common — but he hated her being absent and was afraid that , one day , a friend of his would come to see him and ask where she was . |
| 9 | So cos I said to Lynn as I said what I 'll do , I 'll go slow then one of you 'll have to put it out cos there 'll be so much work to wrap up I should be taking it home with me to do it . |
| 10 | Nay , for that matter , if you can set Mrs. Belville a-talking not one of you shall care to open you lips except to say as she says … |
| 11 | But I suspect a lot of you would want to leave them with a matt finish , it 's entirely up to you Anyway when you paint , like I say , it 's just it 's because it 's porous it sucks the colour off the brush and er it immediately dries , so you can see , straight away , the colour it 's gon na be when you then put the varnish on you use a sort of matt varnish and so it brings the colour up but it wo n't be shiny or a shine , which you 're gon na choose like you might wan na matt varnish with this and shiny for the shell which ca it really brings the colour up , we wo n't get round to varnishing today erm and the other thing you can do , if you want erm a sort of a mottled effect you do pink in a base colour say Mikila wanted all greeny , bluey colours on that |
| 12 | ‘ Let me see her — or two of you will have to throw me out ! ’ said Nancy violently . |
| 13 | Some of us might live to see it . |
| 14 | And the god , speaking in his high falsetto voice through the medium of the dhāmi , said without a moment 's hesitation that Kalchu 's bull 's time had come , and there was nothing any of us could do to save it now . |
| 15 | It is , I believe , in the public interest that your Lordships should remedy that injustice if this can be achieved while ensuring that the defendant shall not be subject to an order , compliance with which might tend to incriminate him . |
| 16 | The difficult part about this one is that people all have odd shaped heads , now and you find that if you put them on too high they squidge off like that , and you 've got to think of bandaging an egg basically , if you had an egg with a little hole in one end and you 've got to put a bandage round you 'd have to put it very carefully round the widest bit would n't you for it to stay firm and that 's the secret , everyone 's heads different and as you put it round you 've got to see where you can get it , where , sometimes it 's over the ears , sometimes it 's above the ears according to the peoples ' shaped , different shaped heads everyone 's different , anything else ? |
| 17 | And then of course there are all the people round who will want to meet you . |
| 18 | and you 'd fit them together but if it did n't fit you 'd have to do something to you 'd have to get them from som , from somewhere else . |
| 19 | Th well then we 'd have to we 'd have to present it . |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't think why someone such as yourself should want to marry me , ’ Ellie said eventually . |