Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 've just got to look after her and see that she does n't hurt herself . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Nice there 's some of them that look as though they 're double . |
| 14 | Because they can see nothing in front of them but cooking and scrubbing and mending … and endless babies . |
| 15 | He admired some of them as determined but ordinary folk . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | He neither went towards her nor withdrew and she saw it could not go on like that . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He held a marble lighter towards her and said as she lowered her head to the flame , ‘ Filthy , is n't it ? ’ nodding towards the rain at the window . |
| 25 | On 2 July 1987 her husband had stopped the car in front of her and insisted that she should sign , but she refused . |
| 26 | There had been profiles of him that suggested that he was a jogger who had been bitten by one of Alex ‘ Down Sir ’ Snell 's pit-bulls . |
| 27 | ‘ He is n't our dog , but he lives next door to us , ’ she explained , ‘ so I suppose I 'd better take charge of him and see that he does n't do any more mischief . ’ |
| 28 | I am not too fond of it but go and judge for yourself . |
| 29 | ‘ But I 've enjoyed every minute of it and remain as fascinated today by the cut and thrust of politics as I ever was . |
| 30 | But it was no use bemoaning her fate — she must make the best of it and hope that time would eventually heal the biggest wound she had ever experienced . |