Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ No , I could n't possible rest , not until I 've got an up-to-date report on Liz and Owen . |
| 3 | I know , I could n't long time getting |
| 4 | For example , I could n't past data from an existing spreadsheet into a document and maintain the link ; the toolbar across the top of the word processor has no buttons for bold or italic text ; and it was impossible to run a banner headline across the top of a page divided into columns . |
| 5 | I could no more return to that house alone than face the devil . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well I feel really so I would n't that job . |
| 8 | ‘ I would no more look at her today than a bar of soap . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I would never subject Kirsty to that sort of tug-of-love . ’ |
| 10 | I have to say that while I am quite sure that ‘ Summer 's Eve ’ is a perfectly suitable wash for people with sensitive skins and that a no-talcum powder has a lot going for it , I ca n't possible support the selling of this product as necessary for ‘ intimate ’ care . |
| 11 | I ca n't that girl ! |
| 12 | If I , if I 'm out yes , I li I like them in a pa in a , in a paper , you know , but er I 've got no cake to offer you , I ca n't some biscuits . |
| 13 | As always , I shall back both horses in the race and keep OS/2 on at least one of my machines — and a Mac in the spare room , just in case Apple surprises us all and starts to sell reasonably specified machines at sensible prices . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I wo n't this time . |
| 16 | And he was fain to acknowledge the tenant 's insistence that the bargain was sacrosanct : ‘ I can not much saie against that ; but yet I perceaue I shalbe a losser still by this bargaine , thowghe I can not tell the reason why ’ More prosaically , landownership was hedged about by varying degrees of limitation resulting from the security of customary tenures , accompanied as often as not by inelasticity of rents . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I can only second Glynn 's remarks . |
| 20 | If your work and attendance during the probationary period ( which may under certain circumstances be extended ) are not satisfactory , your appointment will normally be terminated . |
| 21 | If your work and attendance during the probationary period ( which may under certain circumstance be extended ) are not satisfactory , your appointment will normally be terminated . |
| 22 | I accept the argument which er Noble Viscount put so clearly that there may be a case for bringing in some outside people , but if this is to be done , it seems to me that the police authority itself is the authority best able to judge what particular gaps need to be filled and the one of the amendments to which I am speaking erm does contemplate giving power to the authority to co-opt members with experience which might not other ways be available , for example from among the ethnic minorities . |
| 23 | The Assembly 's meeting in New York at the moment to decide whether Cambodia 's seat will be given to the newly agreed Supreme National Council ; a move which would please many people and organizations such as Oxfam and Christian Aid , who were opposed to the Phol Pot regime . |
| 24 | If , on the other hand , the golem is already working , then Haberup ( who may not this time be in a position to claim the patent rights ) has presumably done something to annoy it , and in this case ( 10 ) may be used in the sense of an answer to the question : ( 11 ) what did Haberup do to his golem ? |
| 25 | She may even one day be able to form a real friendship with her estranged husband . |
| 26 | ‘ No reason why you should n't some day , is there ? |
| 27 | Today , many people who might earlier this century have been in hospital are now living in a residential home . |
| 28 | We just thought you might okay one travel warrants . |
| 29 | She could no more walk away from him now than she could voluntarily stop breathing . |
| 30 | It was no good , she could n't play-act indifference any longer . |