Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Go through them to see which might be relevant to your own situation . |
| 2 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 3 | She felt her hand being placed against his cheek , and then his lips pressing kisses upon it ; she pulled his hand back , and casting all caution to the winds pressed his palm to her own lips , fondling it , examining the scratched and chisel scars on his knuckles until he wanted her hand back again — and the manner in which they took it in turns to kiss hands through the wall became a competition between them to see who could demonstrate the greatest fondness , a competition that Jennifer was now desperate to win because all her instincts were telling her that Tristram was the only man she could ever love , and that through him lay her path to freedom and independence . |
| 4 | ‘ If you would prefer me to drive I can drive , ’ said the man . |
| 5 | might say , I 'm a beef farmer , erm I enjoy my , my beef very much , my philosophy is that erm , if we 're going to use animals we 're going to eat the , their time here should be as humane , they should have as humane treatment as possible , and they should be free from fear , hunger and pain , and when the time comes for them to go they should know as little about it as possible . |
| 6 | no , makes them think they might come up do you want some porridge , mummy do you some porridge ? |
| 7 | Why did everyone think she could n't cope with hurt ? |
| 8 | Now they have aerial wires attached to the masts and they made me think they must intend to use her for some sort of electronic surveillance . |
| 9 | That makes me think he must have connections with the Jordanian Government — he probably works for the Jordanian Secret Service , either full time or in some ad hoc capacity . |
| 10 | Either way , the problem you describe , combined with the fact that this is your first dog , makes me think you should go back to the RSPCA and ask them to put you in touch with the most suitable , local training club . |
| 11 | But it made me think you must have been a friend of Hugh 's . |
| 12 | I suppose the , the sort of things that made me think I might be suitable for social work have been coming from working with the young . |
| 13 | ‘ I just said , it looked to me at first as though it was a woman , then just something made me think it might be a man . ’ |
| 14 | It shows signs of spreading , which made me think it must be lead and , therefore , a .22 . |
| 15 | ‘ You do n't put an empty box in a safe ; there must have been something in it when it was put there and the lavender sachet makes me think it must have been something of sentimental value . ’ |
| 16 | He paused and then added , ‘ In any case , everyone thinks we should go . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It boggles my mind that everyone thinks they can pull the wool over the eyes of a company that 's had 30 years experience in dicking rock bands . |
| 18 | If everyone thinks they can make money out of bargain books , let them . ’ |
| 19 | An exhibitor 's put an exhibit up and everyone thinks they can beat it but when they 've gone and left their the exhibitors gone back and put a new lot up … things like that happen . |
| 20 | I work hard at dull , practical things , she thought , and so everyone thinks I must be mature and reliable and sensible ; but really it 's because I ca n't cope with the other things , the things that are frightening and dangerous . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , everyone thinks he should just ignore it . |
| 22 | I do n't know , people l I 'm of them say they ca n't afford to pay the kids , and get the food for the kids , and they 'll have to give them chips a couple of , every day of the week or whatever , but th there 's no need for that . |
| 23 | Hearing dogs for the deaf have become increasingly popular over the past ten years — now the staff who train them say they ca n't cope with the demand . |
| 24 | Many of them say they 'd like rather more variety . |
| 25 | Yeah , but the trouble with it there is that very often you get , you get half of them say we ca n't come Tuesday , but we can come Wednesday |
| 26 | Jean Baya , manager of the nursing home , said Naomi had acted differently in the days before her death but there was nothing to indicate she would take an overdose . |
| 27 | I was careful to explain my own attitude to commissioned work — that in order for me to work it would have to be within the broadest of limitations . |
| 28 | And so they had sent him North , not to win , of course , perhaps not even to poll a single vote , but to lay the Charter once again before the people , to let them know what could be done in a land where every man had his vote and the freedom to use it without intimidation , as he and he alone thought best . |
| 29 | It 'll be harder to get to the villa in some respects because Val and John , Val , Val 's husband 's retiring in July , he suffers with his dreadful headache , and they 're going to spend ninety per cent of their time in Spain , but she did say whenever I want to go , as long as I let them know they 'll come home cos they 're gon na buy a house in Chesterfield and er she said whenever we wan na go , they 'll come back over to their house in Chesterfield , so , we |
| 30 | Patrol leader Captain David Hall said : ‘ We 're letting them know they can get food without instability . ’ |