Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 So the women were n't staying at home in the itched to make things for or to back or anything ?
2 What will now happen is that er the contractor will regrade the land , erm but we will grass-seed it erm with Don , er our groundsman will look after and maintain that er so that it 'll be reinstated er over the next er six months .
3 When she explained what the kidnappers were after and asked if he had any idea where or what the document might be , his reply was predictably negative .
4 In America , and in his memories of a life still to be wished for although lost and gone for ever , that boy could be glimpsed in Eliot also .
5 This does not , however , mean that the written form is necessarily easier to make sense of or to follow than speech , nor that this particular set of conventions necessarily advantages English users .
6 Its quantitative response , when correctly terminated , is governed by the parameter introduced in the last section and substitution of and establishes that Because u can not be positive at any frequency , there is no range of frequency that corresponds to inequality ( 9.18 ) and equation ( 9.17 ) is inapplicable .
7 I thought about the chips that Mrs Phipps had spoken of and remembered that I had nearly choked on them once .
8 Here the use of but suggests that the speaker thinks small houses are likely to be dirty .
9 Where the Purchasing Manager 's particular expertise comes into its own is in the presentation and evaluation of purchasing alternatives , or in the assessment of whether to make or buy a particular product or component .
10 Since the role of subjective risk is of particular importance in theories of driving , one part of this question is simply whether drivers are aware of subjective risk , either as a feeling which is occasionally present in immediately dangerous situations but otherwise non-existent ( consistent with a zero-risk theory of driving ) or as a continually fluctuating level which they can be aware of when questioned and which they attempt to match to some target level ( consistent with RHT ) .
11 Recall that we assumed that the nominal quantity of money in the economy , m t , was determined in the following simple way : where g is a known constant ; and v t is a random , serially uncorrelated variable with mean zero , which represents the unpredictable component of the quantity of money , and which we might think of as arising because of , say , faults in the government 's monetary control techniques .
12 One lot of As holds that not only do girls succeed in primary school , they continue to succeed in secondary school .
13 He remains a non-executive director of the north London club he has played for and managed and in a statement last night said he would proceed with his petition to buy out Mr Sugar ‘ unless advised by my lawyers not to do so . ’
14 This is work which the majority of section police see themselves as unsuited for and dislike when they have to do it .
15 At breakfast together Fisher exploded and attacked the Church Union and all that it stood for and said that they had done great harm and ought to apologize .
16 An hour later , she was sent for and went as she was , still in the apron spotted with bits of meat and potato where they had clung to her as she fought for them .
17 We have been unable to discover what all this apparatus is for and wondered if you might be able to shed some light on the matter ?
18 We turn up to funerals in everyday clothes , we refuse to let people send flowers so there is no opportunity for a communal expression of feeling , we are reluctant to take more than one day off work on the grounds that we 're better getting on with life as if weeping and mourning had no part in real life .
19 Disguising his real feelings he wrote cheerfully , telling them that it was better here than The Hague , as if to say that nothing could be worse than the hell of being unloved .
20 But Emeth is saved , for good deeds done for Tash belong to Aslan , and bad deeds for Aslan to Tash ; as if to say that God and Allah are different , but yet that virtuous Mohammedans will be saved rather than murderous Christians .
21 Dougal gave him a little nod , as if to say that he had remembered that too .
22 I screamed and rattled my chains ; they turned sluggishly away as if to say that one way or another they would eventually dine on my flesh .
23 The worst option , leaked in a rather conspiratorial manner prior to publication , and which would have left Wales with two short stubs of main line , was immediately rejected by the Government , as if to say that to the public that now there was nothing more to worry about .
24 At five to seven she decided that her long gold hair needed another combing — and jumped up from the dressing-table as if shot when a minute later the phone in her room rang and the receptionist told her that a car had come for her .
25 She held a book as if reading and sipped wine .
26 The Lord Chancellor 's Practice Direction of 17 March 1987 provides that clear photographic copies ( of all documents ) will be accepted as if printed or typed .
27 as if realising that these were the last days of his anonymity , he took to walking the New York streets at night , staring into people 's faces .
28 ‘ Oh , ’ Nellie said , glancing quickly at Carrie as if to signal that her father was being secretive about his work again .
29 as if to signal that the working day was about to begin , the telephone rang .
30 She had a childish face and her other arm was raised , her hand stretched as if beckoning or about to smother a giggle .
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