Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er … forgot who this is … so let's just give him the popular name ‘ Local ’ , when in fact he probably is n't . |
| 2 | You just could n't believe what the man has done . |
| 3 | I just ca n't understand what the bloody hell 's going on in his mind — his crafty crooked little beetle-brain , I mean , " he added to keep his end up . |
| 4 | I still could n't see what the problem was but the whole hallway area had gone suspiciously quiet . |
| 5 | ‘ Him , ’ they said , ‘ if he had two watches he still would n't give you the time . ’ |
| 6 | Even if you 're as good as a master they still wo n't give you the top black |
| 7 | The context of this calm acquiescence is a rise in what I will call semi-literacy , which relies on the visual image and hardly at all on the printed word except as a medium of advertising , and genuinely can not see what the problem is . |
| 8 | They run a perfectly good … well they probably ca n't miss something the size of America . |
| 9 | Er I honestly ca n't remember what the the breakdown on the figures are but er even by moving that inner route direction er we were unable er within the traffic model to actually er encourage so much re as much relief on the A sixty one what the actual figures were I have n't got them to hand sir at the moment . |
| 10 | The very freedom from mass accountability which allows it to do so also makes it difficult for leaders to know what society is thinking : without mechanisms for making needs known and understood , Polish and Soviet leaders simply can not know what the consequences of a rise in food prices or of other policy shifts will be . |
| 11 | He found himself saying , ‘ In 1919 the Enabling Act was passed ’ and then could not remember what the Enabling Act was ; although it was and still in part is the Act which defines the nature of the establishment in England . |