Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although occasionally an older vessel may substitute for one in dry dock , many venerable craft have been pensioned off . |
| 2 | If we think those ancient people were silly , we should look to ourselves in modern times . |
| 3 | ‘ I do not see why you should apologise to me in any way , it is I who behaved like a little monster . |
| 4 | I found it a bit odd that a sensible girl should write about them in that — that romantic way . ’ |
| 5 | We are directly presented with them in our ordinary experience , and so must start with them in any investigation into hidden and unknown causes . |
| 6 | He is a very complex man ; he thinks deeply about every role and you must talk to him in great detail . |
| 7 | So important a part of our story does Macmillan 's visit to the north become that we must deal with it in some detail , and our main contemporary source for what happened is Macmillan 's own diary entries of the time for 12 and 13 May . |
| 8 | Well he said , Alright , he said , I 've made arrangements for your baggage to be picked up and you 'll stay with me in New Rochelle , and he was going away and he slipped me ten bucks cos I only had ten pounds money . |
| 9 | I mean , if he did go off into the wilds of Anatolia , or somewhere remote like that — something might happen to him in some village , where he is n't known . ’ |
| 10 | I 'll talk to you in half an hours time . |
| 11 | We 'll talk about something in general , if you wish . |
| 12 | And if you were a a lecturer in politics and you went to see this play then you might think oh look oh and then you 'd start thinking and if you were a scientist you would think about it in another way and if you were an artist you 'd think about it in another way . |
| 13 | Now unless we think that dreams can unravel very fast in the mind , much faster , and there is some evidence that that 's true actually , that dreams can in fact happen quicker than you could think of them in conscious time . |
| 14 | If negro girls did n't wear white coats and white shoes , you 'd bump into them in dark streets ! |
| 15 | Having lost my own job , I found I could relate to everything in this honest and moving article . |
| 16 | The spacious boot coped admirably with everything they could cram into it in one week — picnic hampers , the weekly shopping , even the latest buys from Sue 's visits to the garden centre . |
| 17 | I was shaking with embarrassment that he could talk to me in this way at all , as if he knew me , as if he had the right to question me . |
| 18 | They just chomped , and when they had finished , the podgy leader rose and quietly asked McGurk if there was somewhere they could talk to him in private . |
| 19 | I could talk to anybody in fluent French , and Marius had managed a good grasp of the language . |
| 20 | They may conceive of it in piecemeal fashion , recognising particular boundaries as and when it is unavoidably necessary to do so . |
| 21 | The yearnings which I used to have towards it in those unfledged years ! |
| 22 | One gentleman I ought to mention to you in this connection — my friend Mr. Michael Barry tells me — is the writer in ‘ Property and Finance ’ , which some of you may have read . |
| 23 | And if you were a a lecturer in politics and you went to see this play then you might think oh look oh and then you 'd start thinking and if you were a scientist you would think about it in another way and if you were an artist you 'd think about it in another way . |
| 24 | We shall look at it in some detail in this chapter , devoting two sections , 5.1 and 5.2 , to it . |
| 25 | These questions are extremely difficult to answer from empirical data historically , but their importance means inevitably that I shall return to them in later chapters . |
| 26 | In the national scheme of things , clippies would pay for themselves in increased efficiency , but more direct finance could come from super-taxing car fuel to penalise the gas guzzlers , and by re-allocating the tax benefits which currently go to company car drivers . |
| 27 | But of course these stocks are dependent on the amount of wheat sown in the preceding year ; and that , in its turn was largely influenced by the farmers ' guesses as to the price which they would get for it in this year . |
| 28 | The essential insertions will be found below , and we shall come to them in due course . |
| 29 | Yet who would have thought I would talk to myself in this way in these notes ? he wrote . |
| 30 | Rose did n't smack her charge : too little ; but she would complain at her in exasperated sing-song . |