Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well they will be going through P as if everything goes |
| 2 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 3 | Between the date of Meehan 's conviction and his appeal a month later , Nicky told me , he had an astonishing piece of luck in that there had come into his possession a tape-recording of an interview with Griffiths taken some time previously for a programme the BBC had made at Gartree prison . |
| 4 | ‘ We put a lot of money in and we want to maximise on our investment — and Nigel , perfect for us , is a major part of our future . |
| 5 | Aunt Louise told me , but there was some kind of confusion in that she told me that he was due last Friday . " |
| 6 | He 's seen old people who 've moved out of homes before and they 've enjoyed it . |
| 7 | As important to Tolkien , though , was that it is a word ( like ‘ shadow ’ ) which people use every day , and with exactly the right shade of uncertainty over whether they mean something completely humdrum and practical or something mysterious and supernatural . |
| 8 | Of Condition In If it rains today I sha n't go shopping the clause if it rains today qualifies sha n't go . |
| 9 | You want you say your mid- thirties erm er to sort of campaign with but I think we really , this is what we used to be , a campaigning movement and this is what we are no longer . |
| 10 | The men in the group will have to cope with this sudden change of plan as if they had known about it all along . |
| 11 | My idea of being snug and comfortable is sitting in an armchair by a log fire , with a pair of slippers on and someone to bring me soup . |
| 12 | All the same , he had a feeling of guilt as if he had been accused of something in the middle of a bad dream and , waking , could not remember what it was . |
| 13 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
| 14 | It was necessary in 1859 to write about the process of evolution as if it produced the best of all possible worlds , a substitute for the finger of the Almighty at work . |
| 15 | somebody says get cups down , they were filled , no full of drink like and I get this fella this cup with no handles oh no that 's the dog 's cup |
| 16 | The evidence to confirm a host of speculations on whether we have one , two , or more plays called Doctor Faustus is not readily available . |
| 17 | Cultural theorists fell on pop video with squeals of delight ( there is already more high theory of video around than there has ever been of music ) ; pop fans watching the Whistle Test 's weekly video vote just groaned . |
| 18 | There 's another sort of notion of whether you process the global feature or whether you process the local features and you attempt to find out they it dep vary between processes and which one they use , but it 's another way of distinguishing the sort of processing that goes on . |
| 19 | It is difficult , therefore , to conceptualize in any rigorous way the embedding of junctions for if we define the continuum using the topological neighbours of the origin junction then an equally valid interpenetrating continuum may be defined by using the spatial neighbours and their topological neighbours . |
| 20 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
| 21 | He remembered the vivid sunsets of his boyhood and the way the sun would hang like a crimson ball above the edge of the trees surrounding their house and then plunge out of sight as if it had been dropped in a moment of carelessness . |
| 22 | He was the forerunner of the modern professor of materials in that he wrote , with F. M. Lea , The Chemistry of Cement and Concrete ( 1956 ) . |
| 23 | Many people these days have a rather negative concept of health in that they tend to look on it as a state in which one does not feel ill or has no pain — in other words , a state of absence of illness . |
| 24 | He was aware of a slow feeling of triumph , a sense of release as if he had just won some physical competition ; without the fear there would n't have been this strange sense of excitement and content . |
| 25 | Whatever the activity , I still see this as the old style … it 's teacher-led from that point of view in that they rely on me to start them off and I mean it 's almost as if I stand there with a gun and say ‘ Go ! ’ |
| 26 | I should save that type of language for when I go back to the West Indies . |
| 27 | Lizzy walked into the front room and through to the kitchen where she began to make herself a cup of coffee as if nothing had happened . |
| 28 | His tone as matter of fact as if he spoke of arrangements for a day 's shooting . |
| 29 | Not too bright at all , I put just that bit of white in like you said and it 's coming on lovely . |
| 30 | He says well I , we were on about sort of and he says bring it up at the next meeting , I says |