Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does n't mean that the others had no ‘ powers ’ , that they seemed to do little for me may have been my own lack of receptivity . |
| 2 | I 've had a marvellous clear out — got every single shirt on to the line — and when you take that off you could put it in the bucket so I can get it out tomorrow . ’ |
| 3 | Her Sacred Majesty , being by nature full of mercy and clemency , who is most inclinable to such pitiful complaints and will not endure to hear such tragedies made of her people and poor subjects , as some about her may insinuate , then she perhaps for very compassion of such calamities will not only stop the stream of such violence and return to her wonted mildness , but also con them little thanks which have been the authors and counsellors of such bloody platforms . |
| 4 | Endless manuscripts , half of them ca n't spell either . |
| 5 | Coach Dick Best ruefully remarked : ‘ I guess if they 'd been Gloucester boys half of them might have turned out ’ . |
| 6 | Half of them would gain at least £10 a week and another quarter at least £20 a week . |
| 7 | They were told also that half of them would face redundancy . |
| 8 | Preparatory men in because if you took a body of men into a bakery half of them would be standing looking about doing nothing until something was prepared . |
| 9 | As half of them would |
| 10 | Himself is right : half of them must be in the pay of the Foley Street mob . |
| 11 | MdBs generally stand high in public esteem — higher than our own MPs — and half of them will have entered the Bundestag by way of party lists . |
| 12 | Not one of them , he said , was able to read the Bible correctly , but all could dance a quadrille , sing , and half of them could waltz . |
| 13 | Half of them could be really rich and just do n't think |
| 14 | Half of her could n't wait to escape from him , to relegate him to a past memory , enjoyable at the time but without consequence — like Tivoli … a temporary pleasuring of the senses but insubstantial … åd the other half ? |
| 15 | It was highly likely that only half of us would complete the training , he said , and that many of us would try to desert . |
| 16 | Half of us could continue to drown ourselves in usquebaugh and self-pity ( ‘ Here 's tae us , / Wha 's like us ? / Damn few/ All deid ’ ) , the other half could relax , relieved that the English would be continuing to do our thinking for us . |
| 17 | Realeat founder Greg Sams predicts that within 20 years half of us will have a vegetable-based diet , and the greatest swing has been seen among the young . |
| 18 | If the Government accepts this ridiculous advice , half of us will be put on the dole . |
| 19 | Each of the Six Clerks in Chancery was reputedly worth £3,000 annually ; while this sum was certainly exaggerated , even half of it would have been a substantial amount . |
| 20 | First , about half of it will be used to pay creditors and to meet legal fees connected with the bankruptcy proceedings . |
| 21 | When you look at the moon half of it will be in light half of it will be in dark you will see a moon which looks like half a moon . |
| 22 | We estimate that er of the er the current level of collected dose from medical radiology , about half of it could in fact be reduced by implementing the recommendations of the report . |
| 23 | how to handle the nerves , I 'll say right now and half of you may want to walk out of the room . |
| 24 | Bananas in pyjamas are coming down the stairs , bananas in pyjamas are coming down in pairs , bananas in pyjamas are chasing teddy bears , half of you will be alright to catch them on their way . |
| 25 | Bananas in pyjamas are coming down the stairs , bananas in pyjamas are coming down in pairs , bananas in pyjamas are chasing teddy bears , half of you will be alright to catch them on their way . |
| 26 | half of you will be alright to catch them on their way |
| 27 | And I 've tried to stay true to the original recipes given to me by members of my family , even though some of them wo n't be very popular — I think the brains and chitterlings [ pigs ' intestines ] recipes are of historical interest only ! ’ |
| 28 | So some of them will be given and some of them wo n't and you 'll work out which ones can I fit in here opposite adjacent or that . |
| 29 | She tells her friends what to do and now some of them wo n't play with her . |
| 30 | But when you buy a council house it is slightly different in as much as some some of them wo n't have them . |