Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr James remembers her well , she was a sweet woman , all good nature , not a thought in her head , who asked for nothing but to love and cherish ( her husband had been spectacularly unfaithful to her , even for Rome — it runs in that family ) . |
| 2 | As all of these may have default options , it is important that the designer should make positive decisions about them and ensure that the file does reflect the design intended for it . |
| 3 | The lady remembered my visit well , said she had been concerned about me and confided that , to provide me with a good meal , she had walked the five miles into Lochinver and back to buy fresh fish . |
| 4 | Since stray cat populations can only be dosed with the birth pill via their food , there is always the chance that certain cats will avoid the treated meals provided for them and scavenge or catch prey for themselves . |
| 5 | Letting someone else decide — most often manifest in people applying for a wide range of jobs perhaps with little in , because they are unable to decide which is most appropriate for them and hoping that somehow the right choice will be made by the employers themselves . |
| 6 | This enables those concerned to gain a firmer idea of what the new country holds in store for them and decide whether they are likely to be happy living there . |
| 7 | Levi defines long-firm fraud as referring to businesses which order substantial quantities of goods on credit at a time when the owners of the business either intend not to pay for them or suspect that they will not be able to pay for them . |
| 8 | Then , while shopping in Fore Street one morning , he was approached by Timothy Gedge , who smiled at him as though nothing untoward had occurred between them and asked if he had come to a decision about donating the curtains . |
| 9 | The members of this family are genetically identical and this was confirmed by making skin grafts between them and finding that they were not rejected . |
| 10 | In two weeks I shall be speaking to the people who worked for me and campaigned and raised money when I thought I was as good as dead and buried . |
| 11 | Mr. Lennis sent for me and said that Mr. Andrew was feeling run down , and had gone for a cruise in one of the ships , the Emily T. I kept expecting a letter or a postcard from him , but nothing came . |
| 12 | I 've just got to look after her and see that she does n't hurt herself . ’ |
| 13 | Blencowe apparently owed his career as a judge to Wallis who turned down a bishopric for himself but asked that his son-in-law be considered for a judicial appointment [ DNB , 20 , 598–602 ] . |
| 14 | There is a small part of me that feels that , on behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends , I should welcome what the Leader of the House has said . |
| 15 | Bernice shook loose the amiable scrap of nothing and watched as it fluttered away , lost in moments in the gentle glow of Moloch 's endless day . |
| 16 | Nice there 's some of them that look as though they 're double . |
| 17 | Because they can see nothing in front of them but cooking and scrubbing and mending … and endless babies . |
| 18 | He admired some of them as determined but ordinary folk . |
| 19 | Marius was dismissive about both of them and thought that if they could n't manage two weeks of bedmaking and personal organisation then they should have stayed at home . |
| 20 | Attendance at this meeting was small , due in part to the absence of teachers who are in the National Display Team and are performing that day in Edinburgh as guests of the S.W.K.F.A. We though of them and hoped that all was going well . |
| 21 | She had put them on without thinking , because they were what she had always worn for travelling outside London , but she began to wonder what David 's mother would think of them and to wish that she had put on her good black coat and skirt instead with one of her London hats . |
| 22 | He found it ‘ intolerable ’ to think of the toys falling into the hands of other children — ‘ The idea of a crowd of embryo right wee fellas ’ ' getting hold of them and Bolshevising and applying to their own base purposes that well-ordered world in which we spent so many happy hours ’ . |
| 23 | I have in mind such measures as coverage , timeliness , accuracy , ease of use , and so on , all of which if assessed and publicised by library and information professionals would do a great deal to improve the overall standard of business information sources . |
| 24 | Wrote my other essays is an answer that I For those of you that believe that statistics and research matters is about hard sums , you can endorse that view okay . |
| 25 | He clears his throat , which is suddenly somewhat congested , and reads : ‘ Whatever happens to me , I shall always be thinking of you and hoping that you will have green grass for your cattle . ’ |
| 26 | A sudden hatred came over her ; a cold , bitter hating of everything that lived and breathed . |
| 27 | I wrote to him every few days and gave him the details of everything that happened and everyone I met . |
| 28 | Arty was sitting up in bed , his hair shining from a liberal application of something that looked and smelled like perfumed vaseline and came from a jar labelled Easi-Gro . |
| 29 | He neither went towards her nor withdrew and she saw it could not go on like that . |
| 30 | Ellen 's voice was suddenly a harsh scream , so harsh that we both looked towards her and saw that she was threatening both of us with one of Wavebreaker 's heavy-duty fire extinguishers that she had snatched from its rack at the head of the main companionway . |