Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Well I do n't ring up the client now , I make a note to ring them Monday night , because every approach session should always start off with warm calls , I do n't know if Alan told you that . |
| 2 | Secondly , we do n't know if Millet took it . |
| 3 | Keeper Eric Thorstvedt was outstanding but insists he does n't know if Spurs want him to stay . |
| 4 | I do not know if Alex used it to court his Mary — he must have used something — ‘ The joke was unconscious but crowing laughter came from the young men beside the whisky jar . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'll never know if people want you for your looks or for yourself . |
| 6 | But a man must wait until Osiris calls him . ’ |
| 7 | So many cities enrolled him as a freeman , usually by giving him a scroll of membership in a gold box , that Horace Walpole summed up his popularity in the phrase ‘ For some weeks it rained gold boxes ’ , and the more prosaic Duke of Newcastle recognized that no government could survive if Pitt opposed it . |
| 8 | Waco : TEXAS cult leader David Koresh said last night he and his heavily-armed followers would not surrender because God told him to wait . |
| 9 | They were also difficult to find because people stole them from libraries or tore out chapters . |
| 10 | We can not do what we want because guilt convinces us that those around us will be hurt , so we temper our lives and our actions to avoid that mythical hurt . |
| 11 | Sometimes it is difficult to tell whether a ceiling is badly cracked because people cover them up with ceiling paper or tiles . |
| 12 | I do n't know whether reps get them at home , do they ? |
| 13 | Do n't you know whether Amy phoned you or not ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't know whether Newman told you — the victim was hung from a rope inside an old bell tower . |
| 15 | I do n't know whether people think they can move a dust extract in an hour or two hours . |
| 16 | He did not yet know whether Edward wished him to bring to Wales any of his nobles of Champagne to serve there . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know whether Dersingham knew him prior to his appointing him . |
| 18 | A film which apparently did touch the spirit was King Kong , though we do not know whether Jack found it quite as exciting as Warnie did : ‘ There were astounding representations of the various prehistoric monsters , ’ Warnie confided breathlessly to his diary . |
| 19 | The SOC government had been set to release some 400 political detainees and POWs on Jan. 3 but the move had been cancelled after Fresard denounced it as " a pure propaganda piece " . |
| 20 | She wondered , laughing as Sabina jogged her , for she had halted in a daydream , what it would be like to encourage him , to overcome the scruples he so kindly showed by not exploring her body . |
| 21 | In 640 x 480 VGA , these appear as Sage intended them , but on my 1024x768 SVGA display ( the emerging standard ) something has gone awry with screen fonts , the first indication of which is the fact that the descriptive text on the buttons overwrites the icons slightly . |
| 22 | Whilst I was wondering just what I might buy with it , the problem was solved when Mum bought me a grey shirt . |
| 23 | This theory holds that , although human society originated as Freud described it in Totem and Taboo , subsequent social evolution led to repetitions and expansion of that primal trauma which , although on a smaller scale than the original one , nevertheless share something of its traumatic nature and crucial consequences — particularly for the subsequent evolution of the superego . |
| 24 | First , the curt instruction to make a mayonnaise ‘ a la main ’ , though this proved much easier than expected when Eric started us off with three egg yolks and a healthy dollop of strong French mustard ( tip of the year for this amateur chef ) before adding the first drop of oil . |
| 25 | ‘ It feels so high , ’ she exclaimed as exhilaration gripped her . |
| 26 | When the seaman Peters , a thief and later a mutineer , protests against the commuting of the death sentence to the disgrace of being flogged round the fleet , Marryat as author finds it a matter for critical comment that the members of the court-martial are clearly surprised that a mere seaman should act from a sense of honour : |
| 27 | What happens if Joey says I 'm out ? ’ |
| 28 | Lorna says if Carl comes she 's not coming . |
| 29 | He says if people think he 's not telling the truth they must tell him to his face . |
| 30 | Andrew says if people find it unbelievable that a nurse could ever kill then they should relise that the situation in Bosnia is unbleievable . |