Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb mod] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every day of the season she would travel in her carriage and six to Ashdown Park on top of the downs , where she would course for hares with her magnificent greyhounds and walk for twenty-five miles . |
| 2 | Down the street a block or two , she found a spot under a grocer 's awning where she could pore over the map . |
| 3 | In ‘ Fighting talk ’ the two are tied together in the nostalgic account of an idyllic childhood landscape , all large back gardens and open public spaces , where you could mooch about for as long as you wanted . |
| 4 | By one o'clock he 'd be staggered by the reels of shiny new bureaucratic red tape and return to the hotel fort where we would lunch by the pool , talk , plan , watch , and he would slowly recuperate . |
| 5 | We do have this process where we can edge-glue the broken pieces so when a piece is broken and a previous glazier put in a piece of lead we can edge bond instead |
| 6 | I mean where we could dummy into the war here so the war starts in thirty nine so unless you 've got good reason to believe that consumption was n't affected until nineteen forty , we use a dummy for the whole war period once you 've edited , once you 've edited the variable you press the end key that saves the edit . |
| 7 | He thought , I know what my idea of heaven would be , if by heaven we mean a place of bliss in which to pass eternity : a sanctuary where one might chain-smoke without impairment of breathing , destruction of the lungs or damage to the heart , light each fresh cigarette from the glowing butt of its predecessor , and drink ice-free but hundred-proof chilled vodka laced with two drops of angostura and a gill of newly opened Perrier endlessly , with increasing euphoria until a peak of joy and ease was reached but without any sub-sequent nausea or pain or dehydration or oblivion … |
| 8 | She had been so much a part of his plans for the future that he was now thinking of countries where they could farm together . |
| 9 | No doubt the table saw him , computed his path across the room , and placed itself just where he would trip over it ! |
| 10 | I 'd rather watch men play tennis than I would women ! |
| 11 | If I were pedantic I would have to exclude it from my description of the Basque country , because Sauveterre is definitely a Béarnais and not a Basque town ; but it is close to the edge of Basse-Navarre , and worth a visit , so I shall rope it in here . |
| 12 | Did n't see a match report so I 'll chip in my brief comments here on what I saw . |
| 13 | I took a mug of coffee up to the pathologist so I could earwig what was going down . |
| 14 | ‘ I do remember buying books of halfpenny tickets , so I could practice on my own in addition to the visits with the school . |
| 15 | I 've bought all sorts really , but normally in the first week or two of getting paid , I 'd buy a gram or whatever and make it last for four or five days , so I 'd sort of have a quarter a day out of it . |
| 16 | Like Diane Barker , of Bishop Auckland , a deaf teenager who passed her test first time in 1984 after having special mirrors fitted so she could lip read commands from the driving instructor without taking her eyes of the road . |
| 17 | This is because a complete rose is not usually ready to be pressed in one go , so you must condition it first by stripping it of its leaves and thorns , cutting the stem and then crushing it with a hammer , before placing it in fairly deep water . |
| 18 | We supply the hard facts so you can do-it-yourself . |
| 19 | The bases have more give and spring than the traditional rigid type and are also adjustable , so you can firm up certain parts of the bed . |
| 20 | Do n't let any of this worry you ; it just means we 've added your ‘ short ’ address form so you can post to and get off the list when you want to . |
| 21 | Er oh keep these numbers small so you can sort of play about on the number line more easily , and ten minus , minus ten take away minus four . |
| 22 | Now Jean was pleased because I do sequence dancing which I learnt with my husband , and so now this coming September when we start back again , once a month I 'm going to teach some sequence dancing in the hope that some young ones would , will hear of it and , and join because then once you can sort of get them involved with one thing you may sort of get good numbers . |
| 23 | As like as not , we 'll have more than we can quarter by Sunday . " |
| 24 | Er George , the my clients instruction is not phrased very legally , but it 's , let's go for it , so we would sir like to pursue the issue of er our contention is that the outer er northern r route as shown in the structure plan key diagram as it is at present does not meet the need for traffic relief of the A fifty nine A sixty one corridor . |
| 25 | The Tern Valley business park , Chairman , the er , the management board met to have a look at the site , we 're getting some demand for some smaller plots have turned down , and there is the proposal that was considered by the , the management but was turned down , to put in a little round , er , so we could rate some of the plots at the bottom of the site in , to er , mark out the plots rather than pull any plots erm , if the construction of them would be funded from , from selling plots in that area . |
| 26 | ‘ We 're having building work done , ’ Quigley had said , ‘ so we can camp out with you ! ’ |
| 27 | She says we 'll get some old bikes so we can bike to the baths instead of walking . |
| 28 | Women 's weak labour-market position is a source of disadvantage to women from which only employers benefit , since it enables them to pay women workers less than they would men . |
| 29 | Processors have made it clear that they will need to recruit non-producing quota holders so they can hand on production capacity to contracted suppliers who already rely on regular leasing to maintain output . |
| 30 | A bit of security of employment so they can sort of sort out for an holiday . |