Example sentences of "[modal v] [pers pn] [adv] [vb infin] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was from a consultant psychiatrist from the Twickenham Area Health Authority who was fulsome in her compliments then added , ‘ Should you ever need any free psychiatric advice , please do n't hesitate to let me know . ’ ) |
| 2 | That turned out to be untrue , so why should we now believe these spurious scares about NHS trusts leading to privatisation ? |
| 3 | Might it not follow that other steps would need to be taken to help curb local unacceptable populations of rats and mice ? |
| 4 | Could , could I just say that Homeward , I mean there the , the parking is obviously a problem , that that is something that could go by , but I mean , I went to , the last time I went to Homeward , and walked out , and it 's before we had all this rain , my shoes were under water . |
| 5 | ‘ How could I ever love that stupid girl ? ’ he asked . |
| 6 | How could she honestly make this pigheaded man see sense ? |
| 7 | Could we just read this little passage then and er can we share the reading . |
| 8 | I put that as an amendment , not reiterating the entire Labour budget , but I asked the Liberal Democrats , who purport to want to erm provide that sort of service to vulnerable people could they not accept that extra half a million pounds as an amendment , and two out of the group abstained , the rest of them voted against that as an amendment . |
| 9 | When would she ever learn that vital lesson ? |
| 10 | Would she ever understand this complex man ? |
| 11 | Would you also agree that haphazard impulse is perhaps not the sort of attribute we 're looking for ? ’ |
| 12 | In August , near Worth , he sent his mother " a memoir of the horribly devastated battlefield , scattered all over with countless mournful remains and reeking with dead bodies " and in December he wrote to a friend : " if one is to avoid losing all courage , one must not think of these frightful things any more " It is apparent how far removed this mood was from any chauvinistic or militaristic fervour — nor would we particularly expect any such fervour ( despite long established misconceptions about Nietzsche 's attitudes ) from one whose ideas of German nationhood were moulded so largely by the cultural preoccupations of a Hölderlin or a Schopenhauer . |
| 13 | Will I just dump this whole lot |
| 14 | Will you ever write any more comedy ? |
| 15 | ‘ On the day when unemployment has reached the tragic total of three million , will you publicly repudiate this heartless approach ? ’ |
| 16 | People from all over come to greet us , hugs from Cambridge , hand shakes from Poole ; will we ever see all these wonderful people again ? |
| 17 | Can I just do this little bit look just to the end of the branch . |
| 18 | can I just make these these four brief points ? |
| 19 | Can I just finish this this this session with one question back to North Yorkshire because I think you said , Within your sorry within your Sorry I 'll come back to you , Within your projections you actually take account of concealed households . |
| 20 | Can I , can I just put some other bit of information in front of you as well . |
| 21 | And if it was so insignificant then why can I still see that first kiss even now ? |
| 22 | Can you not get that nice edging that 's got a bit of a pattern on it ? |
| 23 | ‘ Can you really believe this poor boy is a criminal ? |
| 24 | Right , can we just have some general |
| 25 | Nor can we easily resolve this methodological problem by appealing to any clear theoretical definition of semantic equivalence based on formal syntactic relations between sentences , since even within generative syntax this is a highly unstable and controversial area of linguistic theory . |
| 26 | Please , please , please can we not destroy those part-time jobs ? |
| 27 | If none of the original material is left in the preparation , how can it possibly have any therapeutic effect ? |