Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand if I am in a drama experience my own actions and things about me may trap me into believing I am in an actual event . |
| 2 | Masculine intuition , he thought ; these two , perhaps you should n't trust it , but these two between them could stitch me up . |
| 3 | If they are not moving relative to each other at one time , the attraction between them will cause them to start falling toward each other . |
| 4 | He produced a notebook and took down the address of the party in Fulham ( as best as I could remember it ) and the time , which I guessed at around 11.15 p.m . |
| 5 | Later in 1987 , the picture surfaced in London , being peddled around to various dealers , none of whom would touch it . |
| 6 | I know two or three people , any of whom will do it . ’ |
| 7 | If one knight became separated from the rest of his team he might find five or six opponents all bearing down on him at once , and one of them might strike him in the back . |
| 8 | The hovering clerk at Hussey 's back was watching them narrowly every moment , as though one of them might elude him when he came to gather them up again . |
| 9 | ( 27 ) Not one of them dare support you . |
| 10 | ‘ These are enormously strong roots and the melding of them may give us an organisation far more formidable than either could be on their own . ’ |
| 11 | Different people will notice different things and some of them may surprise you . |
| 12 | ‘ Any of them would make you a better wife than I could . |
| 13 | Even when I said I was family — well , yes , I know it was n't true but it seemed near enough the truth to use to persuade them neither of them would give her away . ’ |
| 14 | I am sure one of them would afford you the protection that you seek . |
| 15 | I remember when I was working on the building sites in Manchester , the Irish lads called onions " navvies ' apples " and some of them would peel them and eat them whole like fruit . |
| 16 | Perhaps one of them would allow her to see more clearly : the ghost in the land , or the child that she had been , or the old dog , or the rooks in the tall trees , or the woman … |
| 17 | Obviously he had thought that the mere sight of them would frighten her into standing quietly and listening , but he was wrong . |
| 18 | And some of them would take it maybe themselves just or in Kirkwall . |
| 19 | Reversing the polarity of both thrusters would bring the vessel to a rapid halt ; swapping the polarity of just one of them would let it turn on a sixpence . |
| 20 | ‘ I doubt most of them would need it ; everybody did national service in those days , some would have been in the war . ’ |
| 21 | As I said , life is not all plain sailing , there are troubles , there are storms and some of them are very fierce and some of them would cause us to , to wonder if there is an escape . |
| 22 | One of them must do it . ’ |
| 23 | He does n't seem to be embarrassed by anything , except when you try to provoke him by telling him that surely he must thump his desk once in a while , or that although he says that a record company exists ‘ to guide your artists ’ most of them must hate him at some point . |
| 24 | They pecked at some dead creature on the moorland verge , squabbling over which of them should have it , wheeling and darting at each other like terrible shadows in the mist . |
| 25 | He moved up to kiss her while his hand continued to stroke her aching body , then , when neither of them could bear it any longer , he thrust into her , and she arched back , drowning under wave after wave of mounting pleasure . |
| 26 | Neglect of them could throw him into a searing rage ; as when he discovered that a rest camp for troops out of the line had been placed within sound of the guns . |
| 27 | He ran across the wet road and over to the hospital entrance before any of them could answer him . |
| 28 | The fact that none of them could decipher it matters not at all . |
| 29 | Two of them could handle it but the other one … |
| 30 | I was even more pleased to find that all of them could see me almost immediately , and the one I chose inspected the car as soon as I arrived and had the quote dropped through my letterbox the next morning . |