Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [pron] [verb] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , ampersand is is quite interesting , you all know that symbol , because it 's used in handwriting , although nowadays , it , nowadays you would tend to use something like that I do n't know , what , do you , do you , do you sort of if you want to write and quickly . |
| 2 | But , it has given no indication of whether it intends to acquire or dispose of any data processing activities . |
| 3 | She insisted on telling me her entire life story , regardless of whether I wanted to listen or not . ’ |
| 4 | Unfortunately , ’ she added , with a quick look round as if she thought to check whether anyone might hear , ‘ Sir John 's partiality for Benedict extended also to his mother . ’ |
| 5 | So if the female does n't want it and this one clearly does n't , she just sits down and if she sits on her pseudo-penis , there 's no way the male is ever gon na get into her , but in fact this is true er in , in general terms of er if you think about it a , a female quadrupedal mammal I mean it looks like male domination , the male mounts and it looks as if she has to submit but she does n't . |
| 6 | Luke dropped his grip on her and turned to glance at the door , as if he intended to go and put his question to the man himself . |
| 7 | It was as if he wanted to see but not be seen . |
| 8 | The problem with the work situation is that sometimes we tend to settle in , and there are you know , there are people who it 's very very difficult to be trusted , to be trusting with to be co-operative with because we tend to feel that they 're not the trusting or co-operative type . |
| 9 | They are polytheistic in that they seem to believe that many gods exist , but monotheistic in that they command obedience to only one of these many gods . |
| 10 | These findings offered important support for theoretical proposals about children 's acquisition of the meanings of more and less as well as of other adjective pairs ( e.g. , big/small , tall/short , wide/narrow ) , in that they appeared to show that children first learned the meaning of the unmarked term for a dimension ( e.g. , big , tall ) , and interpreted the marked ( negative ) member ( small , short ) of the pair as if it had the same meaning as the unmarked ( positive ) member ( see H. Clark , 1970 ; Clark , 1973a ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Particulars of Offence : [ The respondent ] on 17 September 1990 dishonestly and with a view to gain for himself or another , or with intent to cause loss to another , falsified a document required for an accounting purpose , namely , a computer generated sales invoice , by making an entry therein which was or may have been misleading , false or deceptive in a material particular in that it purported to show that a discount of 70 per cent . |
| 12 | An official I spoke to said there were no staff to take the train on and we had to leave and wait for another to come along . ’ |
| 13 | IBOA members in Northern Ireland are to be balloted as to whether they wish to accept or reject the Recommendation of the Tribunal . |
| 14 | In this Home it 's a period of six weeks , to allow that client some time to make some real decisions about whether they want to stay or whether they want to go home . |
| 15 | erm marketing is certainly one one and possibly does needs some more er attention but there were one or two things that that struck me as as er you went by and you asked to comment and and maybe give a small one that there will pick up on . |