Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've got Oxford United away in the 4th round so hopefully we 'll get past them and establish a good cup run — who knows if we win the FA cup I may even relent in my criticsim of Sgt Wilko . |
| 2 | Neither was I to know that I should indeed one fine day have a son who would make me very proud of him at the ‘ Other Place ’ , but that it would be from green eyes that the light of intelligence and wit would shine . |
| 3 | ‘ I should perhaps first say that I was tripping . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Someone asked me recently , ‘ Would you ever get married again ? ’ and I said , ‘ Sure , I might possibly one day ’ but I have no immediate plans , ’ he growls warily . |
| 5 | Yeah , I might so much . |
| 6 | That I 'll well that , yes I 'll say can you use this week to make sure you understand when Donne was alive . |
| 7 | I 'll only do it if I 'm pissed , and if I 'm pissed I 'll probably rant at him about toe-sucking and the skinny bird with the big nose . |
| 8 | I could no more return to that house alone than face the devil . |
| 9 | Either I have to give you so much information about myself that you are forced to admit that I could no more have killed my wife than Flaubert could have committed suicide ; or else I merely say , That 's all , that 's enough . |
| 10 | Only I could so much . |
| 11 | I 'd probably best to put it all in a all in the corner there . |
| 12 | ‘ Mind you , I 'd rather that than one production of Mozart 's Don Giovanni which I 'd really prefer to forget ! |
| 13 | Well if we 're going to start to go into funding , I 'd rather this went into the pink paper session , and that we have our Chief Executives down here to explain that situation . |
| 14 | And I 'd just that very minute sat down . |
| 15 | And these two fluorines are both saying Oh I 'd really This one 's saying I 'd love one extra electron to go in there , it just make up my set of eight , same |
| 16 | I 'd never bottle-fed a little baby until I came here . |
| 17 | I should have told you , the night I met you on Starr Hills ; but I 'd only that day realized and I was afraid who might be listening . |
| 18 | I laughed not scornfully or anything , but just as if it was a joke which I 'd only half got . |
| 19 | Mr Paul Lewis , the colliery manager in charge of the rescue , said : ‘ I would rather this had not happened . |
| 20 | ‘ I would no more look at her today than a bar of soap . ’ |
| 21 | I think that people would be justified in rebuking me for deceiving them as to my whereabouts , but that I would no more have actually lied than if I had thrown my voice and said ‘ Cooee ‘ . |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose I could learn without you , but I would so much rather learn with you . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I would never subject Kirsty to that sort of tug-of-love . ’ |
| 24 | I thought I would never staunch the flow . |
| 25 | No way do I wish to be seen as a killjoy , I , I like a drink myself , I would always happy to give somebody a drink , but it 's the over indulgence which worries us . |
| 26 | I would very much therefore like to think that Round Table Day on the nineteenth of March nineteen ninety four next year will be the success that you wish to make it . |
| 27 | But I would very much , with the land owners , like to go down there and see and , and then try and negotiate a possibility for right of way across |
| 28 | Should any of your readers wish to join their local society , I will gladly forward details , wherever possible , of their local society with a contact name , address and meeting place if they wish to write to me , enclosing an SAE . |
| 29 | I can without excessive licence properly regard the illness as sin made manifest in bone , guilt outcropping in itchy red layers on the skin , shame bubbling in hot pain in the ligaments . |
| 30 | I can no more vouch for the loyalty of every one of my tenants than His Grace the King or my Lord Cardinal can guarantee the loyalty of every Englishman . |