Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The city has changed so much that anyone who has been away for a couple of years could be forgiven for thinking that he arrived in a time machine , not an airliner . |
| 2 | You might be forgiven for thinking that I see an ideal speaker-hearer as someone who relies on everyone else to complete his conversational turns , never finishes a sentence , speaks very quickly and often with his mouth full , never answers questions , always repeats himself , says nothing without hedging , and invariably forgets what he wants to say — but who survives , if only by ending his utterance with a triumphant whatchamacallit . |
| 3 | In the light of this amended agreement , the British LTA might have been forgiven for thinking that it had pre-empted any legal action over its former agreement , which it had sent to Brussels for consideration as long ago as September 1990 . |
| 4 | One could therefore have been forgiven for wondering if he took it all totally seriously . |
| 5 | Yet , like most faiths in the twentieth century , Christianity has come under the hypnotic spell of this modern attitude , and Christians are beguiled into behaving as it demands . |
| 6 | she 's easy to get on with is Eileen , probably be shattered with talking after she 'd gone , but she 's easy I mean I , there 's lots I would n't want coming to stay , but Eileen is one I do n't , I would n't mind because , well oh I know Eileen 's ways and er , er , her , my interests are very much like hers we 've similar interest with family and everything , er it 's just if you 've nothing in common with them |
| 7 | West Dorset District Council , for instance , was refusing to house people evicted from winter-lets unless they qualified for housing prior to entering such accommodation , even though in this case they would presumably have sought council accommodation in the first place ( Larkin 1979 ) . |
| 8 | Boys need to be discouraged from assuming that they know what women 's position is . |
| 9 | I think later on perhaps it 's easier erm but basically I think boys need to be discouraged from assuming that they know what women 's position is . |
| 10 | So ( and this is my conclusion ) I am resigned to living as I have lived : alone , with my throng of great men as my only cronies — a bear , with my bear-rug for company . |
| 11 | As it was , the ‘ smokeless shimmer of vapour ’ was so cooled by cleaning that it drifted across the river to cause mischief with the leadwork on Wren 's great dome . |
| 12 | The state 's Police Minister , Ted Pickering , a consistent opponent of tighter gun laws , responded by saying that he did " not accept that any firearm is more dangerous than any other " . |
| 13 | what she 'd collected by saying that she has n't really gone to any |
| 14 | Erm used for troubleshooting when it does n't start . |
| 15 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 16 | next to the bath we 've got ta drink before we get out of the bath . |
| 17 | Just thinking of the things I got ta do when I get home . |
| 18 | You 're alright , you 're alright for your holiday , find a caravan dirty , you 've got ta complain before it gets cleaned ! |
| 19 | yeah , so Ivan said to me , he said er he said well I do I suppose you have noticed he said but whenever she comes down here he said the whole line stops I said I quite agree I said well let's be honest about it if he 's knocking out the meat he , it 's got ta stop cos he stops |
| 20 | Yeah well the thing is that something 's got ta shift because we 've got we 've got all these bloody flights going out the same time |
| 21 | And then we 've got ta decide whether we keep it simple erm or whether we put loads of text in . |
| 22 | That 's what you get , you just got ta stand or you went downstairs to another bar |
| 23 | got ta recognize when you get to a certain stage that like if you drink any more you 're gon na be ill . |
| 24 | Well I well I 'll have a week 's holiday after Easter and I 've got ta go unless we go to . |
| 25 | Well he was dashing out when I when I called him erm his wife answered the phone and she said you just him he 's going out at the door so he came rushing back and I said I wanted him to judge champion of champions and the and I said there 'll be two and he said , hang on , and he 's write it down said I 'll just stick it all at one and see to it when I come back , oh I got ta go and he went . |
| 26 | it means that your leg 's got ta go and it 's got ta go on the leg and all this ulcer |
| 27 | And you 've only got ta go if you go in the Savoy Hotel and just turn slightly left and you 'll find electrical headquarters there as well , and quite obviously they are very powerful organisations ! |
| 28 | Deane 's got ta score if he plays and Strach and Macca must put up — they 've been pretty ineffective of late . |
| 29 | Why have I got ta work and they have n't ? |
| 30 | yeah I 'm ge as I 'm getting into the course like I 've got ta realize that I 've got ta do it but |