Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could no more return to that house alone than face the devil . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well I feel really so I would n't that job . |
| 4 | ‘ I would no more look at her today than a bar of soap . ’ |
| 5 | I ca n't that girl ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I wo n't this time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | ‘ No reason why you should n't some day , is there ? |
| 14 | Today , many people who might earlier this century have been in hospital are now living in a residential home . |
| 15 | She could no more walk away from him now than she could voluntarily stop breathing . |
| 16 | That 's it you ca n't these days |
| 17 | you ca n't this woman ran naked |
| 18 | You know cos the woman I was with wanted to go for a swim and I said no you ca n't this guy , so I went up to him , I said what , what on earth are you fishing for ? |
| 19 | No , she ca n't any way she 's working . |
| 20 | And if you 'd got a good suit , you 'd take that , then fetch it out for the weekend , so they 'd looked decent , and when you took it back on Monday and he said I 'll have to drop you on that , Ah , so you wo n't this week . |
| 21 | You can fine some information a bout each of these methods on pages 2–6 of this leaflet . |
| 22 | Henry Cobham , Sir Robert Cecil and Sir John Popham , who had ordered the report , further informed the two men " … it seemeth by some purport made unto us , that eight Kibles of God 's gift and Conistone Oares should make a quintall of Copper , and in matter of experiment in the worke , it appeareth that tenn Kibles or more doe but make a quintall of Copper , you are therefore to informe your Selves the best you can how many Kibles of the Oare now gotten at Gods gift , and Coniston will yield a Quintall of Copper , what the particular charges will amount unto , of making the said Quintall . |
| 23 | We shall therefore this year have two sets of consultation about applications , as opposed to only one last year . |
| 24 | er I 'm sorry to produce the problems er erm we can not this time for large sum of money which er the labour group in particular er want to provide in this area er to spend on rights of way . |
| 25 | If we can not rest with the ordinary ideas , we can no more rest with their philosophical variants . |
| 26 | What is interesting is that for the first time individual patrols would have radio communication via jeep-mounted No. 11 radio sets , but in the event of breakdowns they would also each take two pigeons . |
| 27 | It could no more act as a ‘ watchdog ’ than a critical examiner of the actions of politicians or government because it was closely and inextricably tied to both . |
| 28 | Sit , they said , but he would n't This week John Major began to appear on a different kind of box . |
| 29 | Are we to conclude , therefore , that the Anglican Church 's neglect of purification ritual for women is not because it believes women to be ‘ clean ’ , but because it would rather such matters were n't mentioned at all ? |
| 30 | It will later this week reiterate its opposition to the break-up of the two-tier structure of regions and districts which are to be replaced with single-tier councils . |