Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts to improve occupational mobility for them may concentrate on a few professional openings where their colour is defined as an occupational advantage ( e.g. race relations advisers ) or on employers ( e.g. local authorities ) with positive action policies , or self-employment ( small businesses ) . |
| 2 | Yes , he 's always jumping on me to tell me to do more for local radio and get South East Arts and South East Arts clients more regularly in contact with local radio , and I must admit on the latter case I do think that many of our clients do spend a great deal of time and erm want to be active with local radio . |
| 3 | Still unaware that barn owls are notoriously difficult , I thought that although my experience with Barny had been unsuccessful , to say the least , I should stick to the same breed . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll leave in a few minutes and be with you in about half an hour . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll stay for a few days at least — if she can put up with me . ’ |
| 6 | In fact , within a week I could sit on the same chair as the dog with Dawn on my fist . |
| 7 | ‘ He showed them Viet Cong a thing or two , I could do with a few like 'im round 'ere . ’ |
| 8 | There are n't that many , but I could do with a few more clothes . ’ |
| 9 | I could think of no more than the usual inadequate response . |
| 10 | Right , now what I 'd like to do now is ask you for some of your , some names of friends of yours who , who I could go through the same process with them and , and establish their financial security for them too . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd settle for a few years with four legs like a cheetah and be able to go at forty miles an hour , ’ Otley declared . |
| 12 | I thought I 'd write to a few comedians to see if I could get them to sit for a portrait , to get a few shots together for my portfolio , and then , suddenly , this snowball seemed to start rolling … |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , I 'd come to the same conclusion . ’ |
| 14 | Well to jump on the bandwagon I used to go to the same school as Batts and although he 's a couple of years older than I am one of my friends sisters used to beat him up . |
| 15 | I used to sleep in the same bed as my mother and father because of the shortage of space , but one morning I woke up in another room and I looked out and saw the undertaker standing at the top of the stairs . |
| 16 | I made him understand that he was to stay where he was and I would return in a few minutes with a tin of tobacco . |
| 17 | ‘ If I was in the same situation again 100 times I would come for the same punch and back myself to clear the ball every time ’ |
| 18 | He has sought to make a political attack on me , and I shall reply in the same way because the right hon. Gentleman has been highly selective in his summary of the case . |
| 19 | In the following sections , I shall look at a few examples of each type of problem with some illustrations from my own work . |
| 20 | If , on the other hand , I am in my early twenties and my parents are in their forties and one of them dies I will grieve in the same way , but am likely to be taken unawares and be unprepared . |
| 21 | I will conclude with a few general points about the methodological problems raised by Freeman 's paper . |
| 22 | I I can think of a I can think of a few th of them who are going to be completely incomprehensible to you . |
| 23 | ‘ I can think of a few names . |
| 24 | ‘ I can think of a few consultants , not to mention some very tired registrars , ’ she added ruefully , ‘ who 'd give their right arm to work in conditions like these . ’ |
| 25 | well you remember er when we sat down this evening I said there was a couple of ways that you could help me , one of these ways was that er you might be able to introduce me to one or two of your friends and I can run through the same ideas with them . |
| 26 | ‘ But I can pencil in a few other little misdemeanours . |
| 27 | What I can say in the former case , at best , is " This is how people tend to look when they feel joyful " or " This is the kind of physical expression ( or behaviour ) that we associate with the joyous state " . |
| 28 | At present , however , there is a student gap , which may last for a few weeks or a few months , separating the exemptions from the day on which a person enrols on a full-time course of education . |
| 29 | In a significant change of emphasis the governors ' meeting on April 13-14 agreed to abolish the ceiling of 6 per cent of bank lending which could go to the former Soviet Union ( corresponding to the Soviet Union 's 6 per cent holding in the EBRD ) , and to allow up to 40 per cent of the EBRD 's lending to go to former Soviet republics . |
| 30 | The seminar theme was chosen in preparation for WACC 's second international communication congress in 1995 , which will focus on the same topic . |