Example sentences of "[to-vb] [subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm yes three pictures that you might like to sell if you give me a price for them . |
| 2 | You learn to listen because you know what a rectangle is and you can measure your idea of it against theirs . |
| 3 | Think , for example , about Scottish dancing , which one comes to understand as one learns what the right steps are . |
| 4 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 5 | Brian needed to shit so I gave him a plastic bag and then left it in the bathroom . |
| 6 | Erm ha having gone through that you moved on er and gave out your business card fi first and then the buyer 's guide erm do n't know whether you 're happy doing it that way or whether it 's better round the other way , I I , you , you tend to think if you give somebody the buyer 's guide first when they start to look at it you give them your business card and take it away , perhaps if you do it the other way round they might s start reading the buyer 's guide |
| 7 | Well let's see what God himself has to say cos he gives us a definition of blessing . |
| 8 | All you need is enough 10–20mm diameter pea gravel to form a layer about 2in ( 50mm ) thick over the path or drive area ; your supplier will advise you on how much to order if you tell him the size of the area . |