Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Briefly , as she followed Lucenzo across the marble floor , she caught a glimpse inside a dark , spacious room where she could just make out the shape of elegant furniture and banners hanging from a painted ceiling lit by the light from the hall . |
2 | Dorcas pointed to the shadows at the far end of the shed , where she could just make out something big and indistinct . |
3 | Most non-owners who want to ride go to their local riding school which can vary from being a top class training establishment with excellent facilities , where you will probably pay accordingly , or a small set-up with few mod cons . |
4 | Acting is not a profession where you can simply stroll on — although I know a lot of fine actors have done that . |
5 | The substantial remains of this cavalry fort include the bath house , where you can still see how the underfloor heating system worked . |
6 | The Tears for Fears record , All Together Now , missed from its chorus , the words ‘ In No Man 's Land ’ — where we will presumably end up with Kinnock . |
7 | So he said that they could perhaps take a look round to see were there any secluded windows anywhere or any openings where they might just squeeze through . |
8 | My maximum bet had given away my hand and forced Judas to go one way where he would otherwise have certainly gone both . |
9 | Glancing to his left , he wondered why the Bogeyman chose to live in a room on the first-floor landing instead of making his lair in the cellar , where he would surely feel more at home . |
10 | In April this year , he was grabbed by Banda 's goons , thrown into a cell without a window , where he could barely stand up , and ( much later ) charged with sedition . |
11 | Across the scrubby ground past the Nissen huts runs a main road , with a bus service to Stonehaven on the A94 , where it would again pick up the A92 . |
12 | But in this one you 're right and that makes me right too without having to decide just why I 'm doing this and perhaps doing more than I 'll ever get around to telling you . |
13 | I fear , however , that in my anxiety to win the support of Mrs Clements and the girls , I did not perhaps assess quite as stringently my own limitations ; and although my experience and customary caution in such matters prevented my giving myself more than I could actually carry out , I was perhaps negligent over this question of allowing myself a margin . |
14 | Hiding her feelings quickly , she said , ‘ I would have had four more years of your love than I can ever have now . ’ |
15 | ‘ So I 'll just go on , then , ’ he said . |
16 | I might be going swimming at lunchtime today so I could probably run up there or put it in the post if I go . |
17 | What she told me about vegetable growing meant very little to me , so I can barely recall now what was said , except that she would let me have some strawberries on Monday for my brother 's supper , but I remember how easily the talk went , my unexpected visit serenely taken for granted , with no query as to why I had come . |
18 | You 're obviously more cautious than you were before , and erm a lot of kids now they tend to stand back for a while just in case 'cause you can never judge how fast they 're really going to go through there . |
19 | The fish are n't large and you are unlikely to return home with one that you could pop straight into a glass case , although you might well do so ; but they fight hard and give a good account of themselves . |
20 | At this stage , the child is able to achieve , in consort with a sympathetic adult , far more than she could possibly achieve alone . |
21 | More than you 'd normally get here in three months . ’ |
22 | Luke stayed away for two weeks , during which time Maria had convinced herself that she was unlikely ever to see him again without actively seeking him out , so she could only stare incredulously for several seconds when she opened her apartment door in response to the bell 's summons early on a Friday evening and found him standing there . |
23 | And once the house is built , Peter has a guided tour to see how Ideal Home 's former furnishing editor Judy Smith designed the interior — so you 'll even pick up some valuable tips along the way . |
24 | We 'll look , we 'll actually look at the processes of deep water formation tomorrow , so you 'll actually see how the waters are formed , but the reason why this is high is basically the act of A , low biological activity removing it and B , the fact that the source waters have not come from below , they 've come in horizontally from an area where they were formed which was very rich in oxygen . |
25 | and then you got the rest of it , so you 'll always go more than a hundred and eighty , now when you , when you 're pointing you 're facing that way again , turn around that way again , when you 're facing that way , erm especially if I 'm about erm , say especially if I 'm about here . |
26 | OK , so you 'd probably end up getting gunned down by the SAS or something , but that 's got to be a better end for a bunch of real rock terrorists than ending up as a Levi 's advert . |
27 | Yes , I was just going to say you can do that with , like if you go , it takes you a long time to do it with prospects , they know you over the years , so you can just walk in . |
28 | . But if it 's only a part-time so you can actually work part-time that 's the difference . |
29 | The whole program is ‘ menu driven ’ in any one of five languages so you will always know where you are and it will be obvious from the screen where you can go next . |
30 | The rejoinder must be : although we may generally have neither the time nor the inclination to look at literary language under the microscope in this way , the fact that it can be done is important , and the doing of it can not fail to sharpen observation , by making us aware of how larger effects are built up from smaller ones . |