Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 23 | Or we will for Ever be Running from Place to Place . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Victoria had very long legs and skirts seldom finished where they should on her . |
| 26 | This enabled him to look forward with confidence to continued improvements which would put the British plants back at the top of the performance league , where they used to be , and where they belonged . |
| 27 | Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ? |
| 28 | Well , pretty fair , because then they used to go down Botterman 's Bay and where they used to er , the dock was in the hold , that was all loose grain and they used to put four bushels to the , so they used a bushel skip like that , wh which was a wooden one with a handle each side and they 'd go into the wheat |
| 29 | Odette and the bairn still across the street just where they used to be . " |
| 30 | Where they used to be frozen and then you started another one wherever you went next time . |