Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three quarks inside a proton normally do not have enough energy to change into antielectrons , but very occasionally one of them may acquire sufficient energy to make the transition because the uncertainty principle means that the energy of the quarks inside the proton can not be fixed exactly . |
| 2 | SUBTERFUGE Newspapers and journalists serving them should use straightforward means to obtain information or pictures . |
| 3 | There are many people who I 'd like to thank for their support and help , and for those I am not able to contact personally , I must take this opportunity to say thanks . |
| 4 | I must take this opportunity to say a personal thank you to each and everyone of you for your kind support and all the good wishes that I have received during the past six months . |
| 5 | I should like hon. Members to give TECs not only their support but the time to develop their approach locally to see whether they can meet the high expectations that understandably now exist . |
| 6 | But oh , if I might have this ability to impart the Holy Spirit ! |
| 7 | With all this flap going on , it 's very unlikely I 'll get much peace to do any real work today . ’ |
| 8 | I got the frequency , so I 'll ask Syrian George to listen in . |
| 9 | " I 'll ask this person to write to you , " said Alice . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll need some help to wrap it up and get it down to the car . |
| 11 | We do n't have an afternoon surgery , so I 'll have more time to talk . ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps next time I 'll have more time to prepare . |
| 13 | When I 'm doing work with one group , the others will come up to me , saying ‘ Miss miss … ’ and I 'll have another problem to sort out , ’ says Sarah . |
| 14 | I think I 'll have some cheese to round the meal off . |
| 15 | And I 'll use any tools to do that , from playing games or getting them to draw their feelings , or setting them photo assignments or working on family album photographs or using masks or setting up psycho-dramatic tableux with them . |
| 16 | so he took some bread down and then popped up to the gate where they these were sort of quite a way a way , and Gemma said you wait there with Jane and I 'll invite those people to come up , you see and erm , I 've got ta be a bit cool , went to the table to put some bread there course it an awful and she |
| 17 | In my right hand was a small tray , and by tilting it in the breeze I found that I could obtain enough lift to get up to any height I wanted , and was soon soaring into the air , travelling at will . |
| 18 | I wish I could have 2,000 words to write about THE SIZE OF HER HANDS . |
| 19 | I believed I could use that electricity to give life to things that were dead . |
| 20 | I do wish I could find more energy to get on with it . |
| 21 | The highest percentage of useful material I could find any editor to admit to was around 25 per cent and some quite literally stated that they did not bother with PR material at all . |
| 22 | It 's about er ten years ago nearly that I er stopped being a teacher and when I was a teacher er up having to do assemblies er it was always something that I did with great reluctance and er was er pleased if I could get other people to do it er it seems rather odd then er that I 've actually said yes coming to do er an assembly here today and it 's perhaps a sign of mental instability on my part . |
| 23 | I knew Derek really enjoyed our trips and was only kidding , but I was thinking of ways in which I could raise more money to pay my share . |
| 24 | Chairman while though it 's being recorded perhaps I could take this opportunity to add mine . |
| 25 | Here was this girl who seemed to think I was capable of clearing up her troubles , but did n't think I 'd have enough brains to find out her identity . |
| 26 | If I was the chief rozzer on this case , I 'd have some questions to put to Theo , I can tell you ! ’ |
| 27 | In fact I 'd wait four days , I 'd wait four years to watch it on T V it 's so crap . |
| 28 | Chairman , I , I could go on but I , I think I 'd like other people to have a say . |
| 29 | I 'll retire , of course , but I 'd like more time to lay my plans . |
| 30 | ‘ He got annoyed when I said that though and said it was n't true , so I 'd like this time to say that although he appears to be very clever on stage and TV , in real life he is extremely stupid . ’ |