Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradgrind 's becoming an MP in Hard Times gives him further opportunity for satire : Parliament figures as ‘ the national cinder-heap ’ ( HT ii 11 ) where the MPs , ‘ the national dustmen ’ , get up ‘ a great many noisy little fights amongst themselves ’ ( HT ii 12 ) , and the image recurs in Our Mutual Friend when CD apostrophizes the nation 's legislators : ‘ My lords and gentlemen and honourable boards , when you in the course of your dust-shovelling and cinder-raking have piled up a mountain of pretentious failure , you must off with your honourable coats for the removal of it , and fall to work … or it will come rushing down and bury us alive ’ ( OMF iii 8 ) . |
| 2 | You , you , do n't he said , I 'll down to you , I said I do n't bleeding first ! |
| 3 | I think we 'll along with a . |
| 4 | Cos that 's where he 'll Up to about seven o'clock . |
| 5 | They arrived with a flourish , laid the cases on the floor , opened them and dragged them around the room to be oh 'd and ah 'd over by the guests . |
| 6 | They said it was like a box you know , and they could up to tremendous heights , putting I do n't know how many layers . |
| 7 | According to a government report , by 2030 the amount of high-level nuclear waste stored in the UK will be at least 8 per cent and could up to 20 per cent higher than previous estimates if the Thorp project goes ahead . |
| 8 | Byng followed his brother to Westminster School , but was , as he wrote , primarily ‘ Train 'd up to glory ’ , that is , to follow his grandfather , father , and uncle in some form of military or naval career . |
| 9 | oh he said you could out with that Pakkie . |
| 10 | I had to get everything I could out of this time . |
| 11 | This landed wealth of Egypt was , later in the fifth century , exploited by rentier Iranian landowners who screwed all they could out of the local peasants : their demands are preserved in Aramaic on leather documents bought in Egypt in 1943–4 and now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford . |
| 12 | Young servant girls paid whatever they could out of their often scanty wages to their families . |
| 13 | He told me , ‘ I got as much as I could out of my workers . |
| 14 | Somehow they regrouped and recouped their losses , making as much as they could out of their connection with the king 's court , and rebuilding their followings by recruiting men to their retinues and councils on a less feudal basis , distributing money rents and patronage instead of knights ' fees . |
| 15 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
| 16 | ‘ I would have preferred to have given them a run chase but I then decided we had to be positive and get whatever we could out of the match , ’ said Moxon . |
| 17 | How much more wrong could Back To The Planet be ? |
| 18 | Panic throbbed through my body and , if I had n't been made of sterner stuff , I would have dug spurs into my horse and galloped as fast as I could back to Ipswich . |
| 19 | Bill come out er a here with car you know you could round with pub |
| 20 | Erm , another day , when you tried to set some , and we were all dying , and we kept carry on going , but we could have said somebody would on to each other , or whatever |
| 21 | Of the former figure , 4149 were compulsory while 6684 companies were would up without a court order . |
| 22 | Well erm it was a sticky bus you know , er a field in Winter , it was just er bare soil , there was n no no grass on it and with the cart trudging back and forth , getting towards er a gateway , you would up to your knees in mud you know . |
| 23 | It has long been the case that where a company is would up by the court , the liquidation is deemed to commence at the date of presentation of the petition . |
| 24 | There was not a weakness to be seen and no-one at the game would back against them ending a 26-year wait for the Championship . |
| 25 | A winner at Aintree would round off a fabulous season . |
| 26 | An individual suspecting that an unwarranted invasion of privacy may about to be published would be able to approach the council 's director , who , when satisfied of this , ‘ should instantly contact the editor and put him on notice of the complaint . |
| 27 | In effect , it can along with other phenomena , structure reality for us . |
| 28 | Well I r , I r , I reckon I reckon you can down to that , yeah . |
| 29 | When you have an operation these days that 's lasting anything more than just er a couple of minutes or so , they will insert down your windpipe an endotracheal airway , which is a tube that goes down into your windpipe to seal into the windpipe , so if you vomit , for example , no vomit can down round that tube . |
| 30 | One of them told Trent to fetch a gas can over to the Co-operative quay to be filled at the Co-op 's gas pump . |