Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think this is clearly Miller 's main use for the character of Alfieri and he tries to make this more realistic by making Alfieri a lawyer though I do not think that this is done very well as Alfieri does not say anything which would justify him being a lawyer as all Eddie asks him are things he would have asked anyone though perhaps he asked him because he was a ‘ lawyer ’ and he respected this and knew he would get confidentiality . |
| 2 | McLeish contemplated this and decided he would have to find out more about Yeo Davis 's financial affairs . |
| 3 | ‘ I have no rational explanation for this but doubt I would derive that same feeling if I was playing for Japan . |
| 4 | cost you far more getting it like that than saying we 'll support you |
| 5 | Yes I 've been looking at that and thinking we 'll take it , mm |
| 6 | Erm the forecast figure is our plan of getting to the end result , which is not the same thing , which is in a way it 's a bit like our overtime hours and some of the areas we said that we would spend X amount of hours in , in two months , we 've had to then change the shape of that and said we 'd have half of X over five months , so our forecast i is being done differently , cos they 've worked out the , the branch forecast quite significantly differently erm Jeremy went through , through most of th briefly most of the means of doing that this morning and it sounds a lot more sensible than what they 've done in the past . |
| 7 | After all that exercise she might sleep too long . |
| 8 | Identifying theirs from those that surround it would seem to be a baffling task in the darkness and some researchers believe that a bird is able to recognise the particular smell of its own burrow . |
| 9 | Taylor feels the same but fears it may have become an unbeatable campaign against the enigmatic 29-year-old . |
| 10 | None is inherently better than another , but the variance indicates a keenness from most that to upgrade you must buy from them . |