Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister should not give us that disingenuous stuff about new equity , which is not meant to assist with buying Scottish Bus Group companies . |
| 2 | It should also remind them that present relationships of power and authority were evolved to reflect a diffused distribution of decision-making and an imprecise definition of curriculum . |
| 3 | It should n't take me much more than half an hour . |
| 4 | ’ The good news is that he may not do you any positive harm . |
| 5 | The big potential drawback of a personal pension , particularly for an older person , is that it may not offer you such attractive benefits as your present pension arrangements . |
| 6 | And during that terrible evening by the fireside , when she told him her story , how desperately sad she had been to realize he might not love her any more . |
| 7 | She shut up and her mouth fell into a gape , the sweat appeared in globules on her upper lip , the colour deepened in her face and she seemed to have to force breath into her lungs as she listened to him now saying , ‘ You 'll not tell me any more what I 've got to do and what I have n't got to do . |
| 8 | The man continued to look at her strangely , and then at last he said , ‘ It 'll not do you any good , love . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Might even do you some good in another direction , my lad ! |
| 10 | You know , but i if we could n't , if they we as they said , if they wanted that money back tomorrow we could only give them half that money back because of what we 've got |
| 11 | He knew that he still whistled sometimes , but the bogeyman could not scare him any more . |
| 12 | I had hoped that on my twenty-first birthday I would discover more about my future , but Mr Jaggers explained that he could not give me any more information , except that from now on I would have five hundred pounds a year to spend as I liked . |
| 13 | Regeneration 's still a major problem in Leeds , if I could just give you some some rough and ready figures chairman . |
| 14 | ‘ If you could just get me some warm water I — ’ |
| 15 | That she would you know throw him out so that she could just could n't tolerate him any more . |
| 16 | Could n't leave it any later . ’ |
| 17 | Eventually they were changing it around almost every hour until the Headmaster could n't stand it any more . |
| 18 | Eventually , I could n't stand it any more . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've dropped out — I could n't stand it any more . ’ |
| 20 | Eventually Angalo could n't stand it any more . |
| 21 | Finally , they could n't stand it any more . |
| 22 | Lewis could n't stand it any more and ran out to a flatter legbreak from Mushtaq , the nimble Latif completing the stumping . |
| 23 | He hit me a lot , but I suffered it till I could n't stand it any more . |
| 24 | She could n't stand it any more . |
| 25 | ‘ I just could n't stand it any more back in Bes Pelargic , ’ Twoflower went on blithely , ‘ sitting at a desk all day , just adding up columns of figures , just a pension to look forward to at the end of it … where 's the romance in that ? |
| 26 | ‘ I could n't stand it any more — hearing him howl , I mean . |
| 27 | age of six months that they could n't handle me any more . |
| 28 | I just could n't handle it any more . |
| 29 | It has a weird effect , so bad one day that they had to give me valium to take off my bandages because I could n't handle it any more . |
| 30 | ‘ Of course , we were devastated , but we knew now what had been wrong all along — and at least they could n't blame me any more . ’ |