Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb mod] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not , miraculously , through any major blood vessels , or I would by now have bled internally to death . |
| 2 | I 'm an actress , or I used to be . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm a model , or I used to be until I married . |
| 4 | ‘ I work out with weights — or I used to . |
| 5 | Anything but to raise her eyes and see him there where she ought to be . |
| 6 | In some ways it was easier having him around where she could at least keep an eye on what he was doing . |
| 7 | ‘ Where you ought to be , Me1li . |
| 8 | This criticism arises from the fact that , search where you may through the White Papers , nowhere will you find detailed information about what public service workers have been paid , how their pay has changed or what they will be paid in the future . |
| 9 | and then after that you 've got all the water left and it cleaned the sink as you as the pump pumped it out , you could go quickly with a brush round the sink and suds cleaned all the sink for you , or you could with your pail . |
| 10 | Or you could as a Neighbourhood Watch do that yourself . |
| 11 | You see you can , you get a lot , you can get tax relief off that or you used to be able to get tax relief . |
| 12 | These panels are likely to suffer from what has been called ‘ duty ’ listening or viewing in which a person feels he or she ought to , say , watch a television programme because there is a questionnaire for it , even though it is not a programme that person would ordinarily view at all . |
| 13 | Admission for assessment for twenty-eight days ( section 2 ) is possible where a person is suffering from mental disorder and it is considered that he or she ought to be detained in the interests of his or her own health or safety or with a view to the protection of other persons . |
| 14 | The sociologist of religion ( usually ) does not just plonk down a whole lot of data and let the reader make what he or she will of it . |
| 15 | Ask a French Basque about the violent activities over the border in Navarre and he or she will in my experience be unsympathetic , not towards separatism as such but towards the sometimes murderous way in which it is being sought . |
| 16 | Or she could at least get it over in the registry office with a couple of rounds of Spanish bubbly in the pub later ? |
| 17 | The tax saving to the employee means that he or she can in theory receive a maintained net-of-tax income , while gross salary is reduced . |
| 18 | Charlie Rogers and , later , his son , Guy , were very good to us , allowing us to treat their estate as our own , to ride all over it and to wander where we would with our dogs . |
| 19 | Where we used to b boil the water . |
| 20 | that 's right where we used to perhaps |
| 21 | where we used to perhaps have five or six blokes building cars , you 've got one robot doing it now |
| 22 | There is also a yard where one could at one time sit and look at the adjacent buildings through the barbed wire . |
| 23 | So can you see why we 're looking at perhaps a , a , or we ought to be considering a figure a big higher than three hundred thousand . |
| 24 | Or we will for Ever be Running from Place to Place . |
| 25 | The centre is One , the outer fringe is Six ; zones where there used to be neighbourhoods . |
| 26 | Where there used to be a great big island . |
| 27 | Only in Mile End , where there used to be a fair crop of breweries , could you find a good pub with a good pint of beer . |
| 28 | This can be applied to the case of marriage , where there will of course be usually sanctions of varying degrees against behaviours that threaten marriage , and sexual activity outside marriage may be disapproved of , but this does not imply that merely not engaging in marriage is disapproved of , nor that an unmarried condition is sanctioned . |
| 29 | It was in their interests to make work for the dental profession and sell vitamin C , not to let it get about that simply by keeping their hands where they ought to be young people could have healthy teeth and gums for life . |
| 30 | Victoria had very long legs and skirts seldom finished where they should on her . |