Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I 've been off work in excess of five years now er add my income has been very very small and whatever award I get will never go ahead and compensate me or my wife for what I 've been through . |
| 2 | While the institution I visited may not have been entirely ‘ typical ’ — indeed , was in a state with a relatively good record on prisons — the above observations highlight some of the difficult issues facing penal reformers in India . |
| 3 | But according to John Nelson , the tape he examined could not have been recorded using any scanning equipment and was the result of a bug on an ordinary telephone . |
| 4 | But according to John Nelson , the tape he examined could not have been recorded using any scanning equipment and was the result of a bug on an ordinary telephone . |
| 5 | ‘ All those companies you own ca n't run themselves . |
| 6 | Which is why one and half volts you know wo n't do you much harm . |
| 7 | In other words people move in and out of dependent states ( just as younger people do ) and the help they receive can either enforce dependency permanently or provide the temporary support they need to recover . |
| 8 | His mouth closed over hers with the passion and glory she knew would never die and she melted into his impassioned embrace with a heart that was free to be his at last . |
| 9 | Any job I took would also have to be fitted around me travelling to and from Harwich . |
| 10 | The Roy I knew would never take that from anyone , not in a million years . ’ |
| 11 | The new packages you mentioned will certainly help . |
| 12 | No lad you come ca n't come out help . |
| 13 | If trusts , as is often said , depended on the testator 's intention and little else , then to launch into a discussion of the wordings they employed may well seem perverse . |
| 14 | The flapping of their wings and the strange cries they make would indeed have been eerie for those who Mew nothing of bird migration . |
| 15 | Unemployment and the poverty it brings can never justify criminal behaviour but it does , very often , explain it and the Conservatives ' refusal to accept the fact undermines their entire approach to law and order . |
| 16 | Jimmy and Denis we decided would not look too kindly on our request , the one being too staid and the other too much engrossed in his wife and family . |
| 17 | ‘ My Lord , soon I will , but whatever evidence I have will not make any difference to the Prince 's enemies . |
| 18 | Only one shadow lay over Sally 's life , a secret shadow that none of the luxuries she enjoyed could quite banish . |
| 19 | After the judgment , Neil Garrie , head of corporate affairs for London Underground , said : ‘ We did not want to cause additional stress to Mr Hale but the evidence we had would not have supported a settlement of the size of the eventual award . ’ |
| 20 | Thereafter , engaging the family in a discussion of the problems they face can quickly indicate the current nature of family relationships and interactions . |
| 21 | You know simple language , they wanted to know where he was coming from , but Jesus it says would not say a word in answer to any of those accusations , but then the High Priest says are you the Messiah , the Son of the Blessed God . |
| 22 | And when I took over the magazine I said let's just use the typefaces that they use in the newspaper and supplement them for some headlines , but try to make it belong in the New York Times . |
| 23 | The publications you produce may well fit into a set of identifiable categories ; brochures , newsletters , flyers , books , manuals and so on but it 's how you produce them that 's important . |
| 24 | Typically , project acquisitions could not be distinguished on the shelves or if they could , most of the people we asked could not show us which they were . |
| 25 | But the central argument on the industrial front is that if you bring a large number of extra jobs into an area where the unemployment is much below the national average , and much below the regional average , then you are going to bring people from the surrounding area in and many of those people we believe would far prefer to have found jobs nearer their existing homes . |
| 26 | And only Jinny knew that the news he wanted would never come . |
| 27 | As his reputation went before him like a brass band in front of a carnival , from the age of twenty no woman he met could possibly have been unaware of it . |
| 28 | Many of the rooms he found would not do . |
| 29 | Each of these sources provides new information that will enrich the ideas you start out with ; and the materials you explore will also provide a springboard into completely new ideas , that you are unlikely to have simply by contemplating the poems themselves . |
| 30 | The legislation you face will obviously prevent credit marketing here becoming as mature as its US relation . |