Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [conj] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack often thought he was n't quick enough to match Charlie 's easy repartee , but now he had thought of something that would make his friend smile . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't think of anything that would please her more than to be investigated by you . ’ |
| 3 | She went into the hall , glad of anything that would take her mind from Dana for a few minutes . |
| 4 | Exorcising ghosts , no memories , it all has to be cleansed of anything that might remind him , no shadows of personality to be left behind like a coat on a hook , no toothbrush in a glass like a withered flower . |
| 5 | We are afraid of the new , of anything that might make us grow or change . ’ |
| 6 | His first impulse was to throw it away , to rid himself of anything that might link him with Maidstone and Maidstone 's death . |
| 7 | But so far — and this may be what you 're driving at — we have n't found evidence of anything that could explain her murder . ’ |
| 8 | Tom Scotland flew 62 ops from Italy with a Pathfinder squadron ( 614 ) ; his autobiography is a story of his search for truth , for something that would enable him to make sense out of all the destruction and chaos that was a part of wartime life . |
| 9 | ‘ I kept looking for something that would tell me ( the PTL managers ) kept it from Bakker himself … but it never came . ’ |
| 10 | In her early days , looking for something that would make her consultancy just that little bit different , she chose to have an all-women agency . |
| 11 | Pascoe was walking through their house , ten years before , going from room to room , first puzzled , then anxious , then searching for something that would explain her absence . |
| 12 | It 's different when a respected UK dealer makes substantiated claims for something that will affect his reputation for better or worse . |
| 13 | It was as if he were in two minds about something and must select his words with care . |
| 14 | First you require a second enlarger , an old anything with a lens , together with something that will give you a reasonably diffused light . |
| 15 | First you require a second enlarger , an old anything with a lens , together with something that will give you reasonably diffuse light . |
| 16 | ‘ Give me a minute and I 'll come up with something that will turn your face the same colour as your tie ! ’ |
| 17 | I think he realises that living in the same house would be very hard for both of you , and might lead to something that would worry your tender conscience no end . |
| 18 | I am sure your grandmother would have wanted you to spend it on something that would bring you happiness . |
| 19 | With several newly qualified teachers and many more awaiting initiation , they literally ‘ Swung ’ all over the place — adult institutes , local church halls , fetes , in fact in or on anything that would give them a few square feet of space ; one Essex teacher even did a two year S-T-R-E-T-C-H in H.M Prison , Holloway and got time off for good behaviour ( a class of course ! ) . |
| 20 | The parents are quick to seize on anything that might suggest we use boys as unpaid labour . |
| 21 | If , in defence of your own attitudes , you do n't wish to examine them and believe that they are fixed , it 's not worth exposing yourself and listening to anything that might make you think differently . |
| 22 | I would like to share with you a burden for prayer as I feel it is only right that all Christians should know about anything that would deny us total freedom . |
| 23 | There was only one person to whom Jerome would be reporting with so much fervour ; Bénezet , naturally curious about anything that might serve his turn or redound to his profit , was not averse to picking up a few crumbs of useful information by the way . |
| 24 | Your parents are legally responsible for you and one of them ought to know about anything that might affect your health , either emotionally or physically . |
| 25 | Both Father and Mother had been through difficult times financially in their twenties but Father had founded a fine family business in London which flourished and while both of them were wise and sensible about money there was never any lack of it and funds were available for anything that would widen our horizons and education . |
| 26 | All morning the world 's top cyclists will have been reconnoitring the course , selecting their gear ratios and the most suitable of their many bikes , looking at the route for the best way through corners , testing the strength and direction of the wind — looking for anything that will give them that little extra in this first trial of strength , which will be clocked in tenths and hundredths of a second . |