Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the person walks through nothing you would suddenly see the person as he walked in the light . |
| 2 | If you were able to have an extra space at your table on Christmas Day for someone who might otherwise be on their own that really would be celebrating Christmas ! |
| 3 | At other times we search for someone who can then do the searching for us . |
| 4 | Now I 'd often pushed my nose against the window and thought what a classy joint it looked but as someone who would rather spend £50 on a coat than a meal , the prices had come between us . |
| 5 | Here he was , a friar , a priest , a man sworn to chastity , feeling twinges of jealousy about someone he could only claim as a friend . |
| 6 | We nearly died today , and I could think of nothing I 'd rather do than exult in life by taking you to bed . |
| 7 | For example , one of Freud 's patients , who invented the term ‘ omnipotence of thought ’ , which Freud uses in his third paper in Totem and Taboo , used to think that if he thought of someone he would then always meet them , or if asked how someone was , he would hear that they had died . |
| 8 | And in the absence of someone you can legitimately blame ( it 's rarely possible to give the person firing you the sort of vitriolic tongue-lashing you 'd like to ) , you may hit out at your nearest and dearest . |
| 9 | She was doing it with her usual spare , economical elegance , but also with the air of one who would rather be doing something else . |
| 10 | Poor Lamont wears the haunted air of one who will forever require snookers to stay in the game . |
| 11 | If one can notice the absence of something one must already know what it is for things to be absent . |
| 12 | That term was automatically held to be satisfied when the effects on the interests of the individual were felt to be serious enough to warrant procedural protection , and this was so whether the context was deprivation of an office , expulsion from a trade association , the destruction of one 's property , or the loss of something which would juridically be called a privilege . |
| 13 | And so you need to think of something which will actually keep people listening . |
| 14 | He is unable to ‘ switch off ’ his analytic mind , for he becomes possessed of something which can best be described as ‘ special knowledge ’ . |
| 15 | Which is why I made up my mind to come and tell you first thing that I could n't think of anyone I 'd rather Naylor married . ’ |
| 16 | I ca n't think of anyone I 'd really like to speak to , except Marie of course , but I du n no if she 's got a phone in Scotland . |
| 17 | This article , then , is motivated by a dissatisfaction or a discomfort with most of what passes for television theory : the doubts about the existence of anything which can usefully be called television theory are real . |
| 18 | The image — summoned by a narrator whose exhausted dreams are filled with girls — is like nothing we would ever meet in the literal Levi . |
| 19 | I just seems like something you could just keep building and building forever . |
| 20 | You sit there and spend a million dollars on effects to try to make it sound like something you can already go out and buy . |
| 21 | First , again , Nozick relies on the argument , internalist or not , to provide the independent support for something which would otherwise look like a counter-intuitive consequence of his theory . |
| 22 | The poem is rich in language , vivid in imagery , mysterious and enchanting in its overall effect and uses to its best advantage various language features to evoke an atmosphere of grandeur and magnificence conveying the author 's passion for something which would otherwise remain a mere vehicle to the reader . |
| 23 | You 'd passed judgement on my morals and decided to punish me for something you could only have had the vaguest idea about . |
| 24 | The concept of differentiated costs as one which must necessarily emerge from services driven by the assessment of individual need . |
| 25 | To Eric I say a heartfelt merci bien for everything you 're doing at Leeds , and for everything you may yet do to help improve my love life . |
| 26 | A survey conducted in the United States in 1981 revealed that directors considered the feature that made a company most attractive as a take-over target was that it had ‘ excellent management ’ and the majority of respondents regarded management inefficiency as something which would actually put them off . |
| 27 | William Wordsworth described the river Duddon as something which would always be recognized by succeeding generations : |
| 28 | ‘ No prudent Chancellor can ever regard taxation as something which can only ever be reduced , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ‘ No prudent Chancellor can ever regard taxation as something which can only ever be reduced , ’ he said . |
| 30 | ‘ No prudent Chancellor can ever regard taxation as something which can only ever be reduced , ’ he said . |