Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The status of the pupils in the activity can be raised and the value of their contributions recognised by suggesting that some of them may already possess considerable information and experience ( pp. 36–38 ) . |
| 2 | Doctors are themselves not immune from the disease of alcoholism and some of them may therefore give inappropriate reassurance to patients . |
| 3 | First I kicked the chair legs when serving , then I must not use scenty hairdressing , do n't say good morning unless they say it first . |
| 4 | I 'll just put poor health . |
| 5 | Right I 'll just put national account execs , key account execs , right okay |
| 6 | I 'll just put public transport , because it 's er , you , you 'll realise it means that wo n't you . |
| 7 | ‘ How right you are , but I 'll also give good value for every penny . |
| 8 | Well you might find out a little bit later on , an I 'll also have live music on the show from the Old Vic in , Andrew 's gon na be down there with Edward , it 's all to come . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll not miss ferocious plants , bits of hard sky and angry seas . |
| 10 | But I 'll probably come full circle and take a room in Soho . |
| 11 | I 'll back chasing young cattle against anything else for working up a sweat , and I had already forgotten the uncharitable world outside . |
| 12 | And I felt I could n't design rational experiments without having some type of criteria to judge the results against ; otherwise I would n't be able to see where I was going . |
| 13 | What 's worse , although one might start with some hunches in a mammalian brain , the anatomy of the chick brain is very different from that of mammals , and even now not well mapped , so I could n't afford inspired guesses derived from mammalian expectations — chickens hardly have anything worth calling a hippocampus , for example . |
| 14 | I could n't get other people to see the point of me . |
| 15 | I know I know everybody will be disappointed but I could n't get cardboard ones , stick it all in . |
| 16 | I could n't get ultimate warrior I probably |
| 17 | What a sad creature I 'd be if I could n't promise future children black , peaty lochans full of newts , hillsides teeming with deer , hares and stoats and skies full of soaring majestic birds . |
| 18 | To come somewhere like this would have been better , somewhere where I had to be in at a certain time , where I could n't have certain people come in . |
| 19 | Some of the things I could n't see included Loch Lyon to the east with Ben Lawers beyond , Ben More to the south , Ben Lui to the south-west and lovely Glen Orchy to the west leading to Ben Cruachan . |
| 20 | He was less severe with me than he would have been normally , but I saw I could not expect great leniency from him . |
| 21 | One night , I dreamt that I was about to dive from a springboard , but the ‘ board ’ was so ‘ stiff ’ that I could not raise sufficient bounce to make my dive . |
| 22 | I could not let other people see it . ’ |
| 23 | I would find it very hard to follow gut feel if I could not put forward arguments on two sides of a sheet of paper as to why it was the right decision . |
| 24 | A doctor friend of mine found this home on Welfare Island where I could just observe old people . |
| 25 | I could probably get cheap ones . |
| 26 | ‘ I always felt , ’ she said , ‘ that life 's not worth living , that I could only contemplate little bits of it and keep my sanity ; and those bits I selected carefully — the sun on a breakfast-table , girls dressing , flowers … ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I had high moral values , but I could never accept Christian theology . |
| 28 | I 'd rather eat cold fat . |
| 29 | Such games are usually very playable but BTTF is so poorly executed , I 'd rather have Corky stand on my head than play this drivel again . |
| 30 | I 'd normally send young Henri to pick anybody up but Vice-Admiral Hawkins and the two no doubt equally distinguished civilians who are with him are not anybody . |