Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'll mean seeing so much less of him , and God knows I seem to see little enough already , but being an only boy I 've felt I must pack him off to boarding-school to get some men in his life and break the apron-strings . |
| 2 | for er we should see them away at Old Trafford , I ca n't see any problem there can you ? |
| 3 | It embodies the decision impugned and apart from the definitions I must set it out in full . |
| 4 | Events must play themselves out to aesthetic , moral and logical conclusion . |
| 5 | Any choir should scatter itself strategically in different parts of the congregation so that there are ‘ singing booster area ’ . |
| 6 | The disaster having taken place , however , the meeting must concern itself only with practical remedies . |
| 7 | Instead of becoming frustrated with the futility in solving the problem , the celebration of success combined with the reflection on limitations nourishes people to choose the next action that may bring them closer to real community change . |
| 8 | And you might say well I 'll not take their advice I 'll invest it directly with Global and you 'll find that cos Global 'll keep it for themselves . |
| 9 | Neither spoke and Julia understood that David 's mother was on the very brink of breaking down ; any little thing might tip her over into outright despair . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll show ya round with great pleasure , ’ said the affable manager , ‘ but I ca n't think of a worse theatre than this for your show . ’ |
| 11 | Some men certainly lost their estates , although they might recover them later as political fortunes changed , but there is no real reason to believe that the estates themselves were normally impoverished by the fighting . |
| 12 | If that is what is intended , the objector would say , then constructivism is nothing more than a kind of behaviourism ( another attempt to replace the mental by the behavioural ) ; or perhaps we might lump it together with Marxist attempts to ‘ resolve ’ the mind-body problem in terms of ‘ praxis ’ . |
| 13 | We 'll let him in for free ! |
| 14 | Now if you 're if somebody becomes a persistent discounter first of all they 'll they 'll question it back at head office . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll put it down to pre-wedding madness , and hope that it does n't strike again . ’ |
| 16 | I mean if you like , I mean , I 'll pick you up at normal time , then we 'll just |
| 17 | A forty watt bulb and we 'll reimburse you out of petty cash . ’ |
| 18 | We may see it even in political fundamentalism — where the teachings of a reformer are still seen as the crystal clear teachings which are the pure source of revelation , and from which deviation is heresy . |
| 19 | " I could show you how to prime it any time you like . " |
| 20 | This was the first time in her life that she 'd been in the company of a man who could bring her out in nervous flushes , make her heartbeat race and her stomach turn all watery , just by watching her … |
| 21 | And there were you could see them all over British Railways . |
| 22 | And of course he could use it up in subsequent years , he could move some of this into a P E P . |
| 23 | So we 'd jump up an get one of these rabbit skins and then we 'd take it back to wholesale fruiter in Street , and get fourpence for it . |
| 24 | In effect I 'd cut myself off from other kids of my own age . |
| 25 | Although nationalists could express themselves freely in cultural terms , their aspiration for a united Ireland would have to wait for the ballot box to decide . |
| 26 | Around that time , we heard about a network , which could link us up to other cocoa workers around the world . |
| 27 | These could manifest themselves either during active cow 's milk allergy or later , when clinical tolerance to cow 's milk has been acquired . |
| 28 | He got his way in most things , had despotically guided Stephen 's life , had chosen Lyn for him , before that had picked him out of this school , pushed him into that , as soon as he could removed him altogether from academic threat . |
| 29 | Hey , we could get one up on snobby Ursula . |
| 30 | But diamond , like other hard precious stones , is quite brittle so that , even if one could get it cheaply in large pieces it would not be a very useful structural substance . |