Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is currently fashionable to talk of " competition policy " where one formerly talked of " monopoly " or " anti-monopoly policy " . |
| 2 | Although nobody ever remarked upon the fact , it was tacitly acknowledged now that Nails slept with Firelight ; he had been discovered by them all at one time or another early in the morning still asleep . |
| 3 | b and v — there is no ‘ v ’ sound in Japanese , so its simply replaced by its closest alternative , ‘ b ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ So you actually talked to Peter ? |
| 5 | He followed the king 's wishes in building up a genuinely working library , albeit one well stocked with rarities , and including a magnificent topographical and cartographical collection , manuscripts , coins and medals , and drawings . |
| 6 | At present , EUP is effectively a University department , and Mr Martin 's task is to transform it into an independent company , albeit one wholly owned by the University . |
| 7 | In 307 cases the method used at conception was known to be less effective than one previously used by the same patient . |
| 8 | In 1921 Bowley estimated that only 41 per cent of working class families could depend on a man 's wage and of the families drawing public assistance during the 1930s fewer than one half depended on only one wage earner . |
| 9 | Allingham could not be roused so we then sent for the workmen in the yard . |
| 10 | Once they even won by default the over 40s section of a marathon race which happened to take place as they were passing . |
| 11 | Although it hardly featured in the Report , the nature of lending in Sri Lanka , and its consequences in the first part of the twentieth century had burnt itself into the collective consciousness of many and clearly influenced the Commission . |
| 12 | ‘ I was imprisoned and held captive by the very forces I had so long sought to perfect and that I had honed and polished until they were stronger and more glittering than anything ever known at Tara . |
| 13 | Alternatively , people sometimes leave their estate to charity as a long-stop , with the charity inheriting the estate if everyone else mentioned in their will has died , for example . |
| 14 | And er if I just run through them in in the amended version as I understand it . |
| 15 | That was if I ever got to the bottom of the steps that make up one of the island 's most spectacular walks . |
| 16 | and er , I think that er , er I I I 'm quite interested an and really quite amused , if I once gone on proceedings of this council , because every time a a new initiative has been proposed , you have said , oh yes , we were going to do that . |
| 17 | I 'd only really think about taking action if someone completely ripped off one of our songs and made heaps of money from it |
| 18 | ‘ If someone really wanted to be sure , ’ he added helpfully . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I 'd still like to get married , but if someone actually proposed to me I 'd probably run a mile from that as well . ’ |
| 20 | And er , last time I I get in touch , me mum told me , turned round and says to me , I do n't want any more mum , I says why , he says , oh she wo n't let me have pillow and then I then I think if summat else brought to light , I kill her |
| 21 | yeah , that 's the core but it needs fleshing out more and a has agreed that you know it 's if you just stuck to the Editor 's Handbook it 's too narrow and it does need , I mean B A I E in London thus far are being extremely helpful if slightly cautious and I 've to go down and talk to the revamped education committee when the revamped education committee gets around to having a meeting |
| 22 | If you only recovered on Step 3 of the diet , then you are probably sensitive to yeast . |
| 23 | If you ever put on long knickers , the others used to call them your ‘ Jessie Wharton 's ’ . |
| 24 | as if we just cum on it |
| 25 | They were the sort of things too which the parent generation owned , those old people that Adam , until Rufus laughed at him , had inadvertently called the grown-ups : sheets and blankets and knives and forks and pots and pans and more complicated appurtenances of living that if one ever thought about at all one supposed one would have to get together for oneself eventually . |
| 26 | This struck at the root of the idea that nobody need be poor if they conscientiously engaged in economic activity . |
| 27 | Right so was it , they , they were getting they were joining cos they wanted to they did n't , they were joining cos they actively wanted to be involved in a revolutionary sort of |
| 28 | But still , it would be satisfying if he ever experienced in future years a tinge of regret that he had not appreciated the potentialities of the young schoolgirl he had coached with such distressing kindness . |
| 29 | The paper had to wait , It announced , ‘ until our much talked about ‘ profits ’ materialize in the form of hard cash . ’ |
| 30 | He was if anything more irritated by the quiet drumming of the electric typewriter than by the clatter of the old mechanical one . |