Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may say , ’ Eat your heart out ’ to Norman , to Peter , to William , to Austin and to others , if I may use just first names . |
| 2 | Could I then come to the body of the report , rather than the East Grinstead by-pass , which I , I , I I agree is , is pertinent erm I was , I read this a couple of times because I was a bit confused about the rather if I may say so convoluted argument that was in it erm I think I understand the argument that the erm is that the Mid Sussex District Council have asked for advice and the recommendation is that advice . |
| 3 | The police spokesman added : ‘ It is incredible that someone should carry so much cash around with them and leave it in a car . |
| 4 | ‘ Reluctant as I am , I must lay aside other tasks and do this one . ’ |
| 5 | Reviewing the exhibition for Gil Blas , Vauxcelles wrote : ‘ everything , down to the cubic , and I must admit barely intelligible eccentricities of Bracke [ sic ] ( there is someone , Pascal would have said , who abuses the geometric spirit ! ) makes this room passionately interesting . ’ |
| 6 | to yourself I 'll do better next time and I 'll do better next time and it 's , it 's all the time I must try harder next time ! |
| 7 | I thought , I must get as much walking practice as possible between now and tomorrow night . |
| 8 | The council tax , increase in rents , and tax on electric and gas now means I must find approximately another £22.50 a week . |
| 9 | If I were to go in now , thought Rupert , I should attract far more attention that if I 'd gone earlier . |
| 10 | Well then of course , I 've told you about having these trials up and down , and then , out of the people I 've dealt with mostly of them were local criminals , I should think nearly ninety percent of crime in Ipswich was committed by local people . |
| 11 | I should say about two years . |
| 12 | If I were to contact Sir Philip , I might discover more recent news . ’ |
| 13 | It is something I might do again this week , next week or next month . |
| 14 | Was I therefore to assume that homelessness was an issue peculiar only to Apex members within the G M B or was I to reach the alternative , and I might say equally ridiculous conclusion , that despite its majority of women membership , toxic sock , shock syndrome was not of particular interest to Apex members ? |
| 15 | because if I might say so disabled people were treated oddly in those days , they are not er , erm people I think were a bit er diffident about making contact with them and erm , a lot of people would n't erm , you know , give you a hand if you were |
| 16 | I might call rather boring arithmetic , I 'm sorry about that , but it is unavoidable . |
| 17 | Or I might suspect too much vehemence in his insistence that he loves gibbons , and suggest that he is deceiving himself , that visiting the animals has become a habit without much joy in it . |
| 18 | If there were any of Serafin 's replies here then I might have rather more insight into his side of the story … |
| 19 | to yourself I 'll do better next time and I 'll do better next time and it 's , it 's all the time I must try harder next time ! |
| 20 | to yourself I 'll do better next time and I 'll do better next time and it 's , it 's all the time I must try harder next time ! |
| 21 | I 'll pull that long hair of yours if you do n't obey me at once ! ’ |
| 22 | I 'll stay here another week or two till you come back , ’ I called after him . |
| 23 | WELTANSCHAUUNG I 'll treat as many people as possible within a working week . |
| 24 | Maybe I 'll get there one day , or I might take a day trip to EuroDisney sometime in the summer months . |
| 25 | I 'll get there next week . |
| 26 | Oh , I 'll get there some time , I expect . |
| 27 | I 'll fill out a , I 'll take about six case up . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll take more careful aim , ’ |
| 29 | Then I 'll have just three sets . |
| 30 | I 'll have too many things to see to . ’ |