Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [prep] [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as I 'm in the shop most of the time and know what goes and what does n't , I think you should stick by what I say or get somebody else in who 'll do it better . ’ |
| 2 | If Saddam is overthrown — when Saddam is overthrown — everyone close to him will go too , and it 's unlikely to be a gentle business . |
| 3 | There was nothing any of them could do to save him , scattered and outnumbered now as they were . |
| 4 | There was nothing any of them could do . |
| 5 | There was nothing any of them could do . |
| 6 | Only a woman can understand what 's wrong , and there 's nothing any of you could do . |
| 7 | And the god , speaking in his high falsetto voice through the medium of the dhāmi , said without a moment 's hesitation that Kalchu 's bull 's time had come , and there was nothing any of us could do to save it now . |
| 8 | Whether they 're moving the money from Ffestiniog slate into something else like nobody can prove it but that 's my estimation . |
| 9 | I took that line , so the main , the main character goes skiing for the first time , ca n't do it , and is frustrated because everybody else around him can do it including his girlfriend which er adds insult to injury and there is in there of course , a very attractive dashing Austrian ski instructor ; that 's the catalyst really for the drama . |
| 10 | If there 's anyone up atop they might give trouble . ’ |
| 11 | I can not commit myself or anyone else to what may happen in future . |
| 12 | ‘ I wo n't allow myself to be tortured , ’ Raskolnikov tells Porfiry , but our sense of their three long encounters is that there 's nothing either of them can do about it . |
| 13 | But it will hurt , and each time it happens , it will feel like a shock , and a sad renewal of the realisation that a loved companion is beginning to drift away from her , and that there is nothing either of them can do about it . |
| 14 | Nothing either of them could say would convince Roman that she had a twin . |
| 15 | But you 're stuck with it , and I 'm stuck with it and there 's nothing either of us can do about it . |
| 16 | There 's almost nothing either of us can say that ca n't be taken the wrong way , with a bit of imagination . |
| 17 | That 's because there 's no-one else around who can offer anything else — no-one ! ’ |
| 18 | The investigation he 'd instigated would , by its nature and scope , prove far more efficient than anything either of them could do alone or in tandem . |