Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pers pn] [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose you must know you look like a painting , a madonna — Damn it , you 're pulling my reason all ways , Sarella . |
| 2 | Well yeah , she 's fucking must have you know about a bit . |
| 3 | ‘ If the candles fail , I 'll have you stand in the middle radiating a little glow and we 'll all dance around you . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll take you direct to the airport . |
| 5 | Otherwise , I 'd suggest you leaf through the many shareware suppliers ' adverts and examine their offerings . |
| 6 | If this did n't come all the way from the top , I 'd have you walk under a squad car on the way out of the building . |
| 7 | And you could say I get about a lot without meeting anybody . |
| 8 | Let's hope they keep to the field over there , at least until we leave the orchard . ’ |
| 9 | I dare say you read in the paper she had been attacked last week by some pervert . ’ |
| 10 | I used to start me milkround on a Saturday morning at six o'clock and I 'd be still running round at , at one o'clock and some of these , two o'clock sometimes , if it was bad weather . |
| 11 | And he would watch her go with the certainty that she was meeting a lover . |
| 12 | The assembled friends were told by Brendan Bracken in tones of wonderment that Churchill — that great Francophile — had rung to bellow that he would watch them die without a qualm if they ‘ ratted on Poland as they had ratted on Czechoslovakia , ’ while Bob Boothby told them repeatedly how he had exhorted Winston to ‘ break Chamberlain and take his place ’ . |
| 13 | The Irish Guards would give them support from the right flank , while the Welsh would advance from the left . |
| 14 | It would have been sensible to consult my book of British butterflies before I started for I soon realised using authentic colours greatly improves the overall impression ; if you can , I would suggest you refer to a book also . |
| 15 | But I would hope we live in a more enlightened age . |
| 16 | The basic ground rules that determine whether a new settlement concept does as I would put it get into the starting gate . |
| 17 | We may add you know at the beginning or end : |
| 18 | Credit balances will earn you interest at a rate quoted in all our branches . |
| 19 | This will give you output for the node characteristics . |
| 20 | At home , several layers of clothing ( rather than one very thick one ) will keep you warm during the day by trapping layers of warm air between them . |
| 21 | Effectively , you agree with a bank that on , say , 1 January you will pay the bank interest on a notional principal calculated using a fixed interest rate reflecting the current yield curve ; the bank will pay you interest on the same notional principal at whatever interest rate pertains on 1 January . |
| 22 | Your Lordship will smile I trust at the progress your loving son is making for the Company ; to whom we are beholden for our wherewithal and our signal progress in this land . |
| 23 | If you start writing down some of the responses to that question , you will find you have along the way acquired a ragbag of elements that will have an important bearing on the design . |
| 24 | We may regret we live in a permissive society but I doubt whether even the most staunch defender of a better age would maintain that all or even most of those who have at one time or in one way or another been led astray morally have thereby become depraved or corrupt " . |
| 25 | Let's imagine you live in a village , and there are some nice people in the village and there are some nasty people in the village . |
| 26 | By working with the NHS in this way , AA Hospital Plus can give you access to the highest standards of health care — at a very affordable monthly cost . |
| 27 | But I said to Brian , if we can have it say for a Saturday , and make sure you do it in one day . |
| 28 | Anne ‘ s quick wit made her popular and one of the women said admiringly , ‘ You can tell you come from a big family , girl , the way you come out with the wisecracks . ’ |
| 29 | ( 3 ) There is a modern attempt to defend what is called objectivism in ethics which turns on viewing both facts and values as essentially social constructs which are what they are because they are either what society drills us into accepting or what exceptional individuals can persuade us follow from the procedures we have been drilled into accepting as correct . |
| 30 | But for the help of a friend who sleeps in the bungalow at night , and who can help her go to the toilet if she needs to , she says she would have to go into a home . |