Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would never in a planning matter , readily make an absolute statement like that . |
| 2 | Whilst individuals in the company privately admit to knowing little about ‘ race and racism ’ , a major research contract which did not go out to open tender is safely located in an institution which can only with a degree of implausibility don the cloak of academic neutrality . |
| 3 | I do n't want you to throw them away today , er , because you might actually in a few days ' time think of some use for them . |
| 4 | But this novel has not just one but two barmen who could also at a pinch be hailed as lords of language . |
| 5 | You 'd never in a million years see a dancing man in a field in the country . |
| 6 | It was this , I am thinking , that made Miss Jonathan realize that if the marriage she was about to enter into with a man much different from herself , and older also , would not go well , she would never from a Catholic be obtaining a divorce . |
| 7 | No one can live on a diet of culture that is completely alien . |
| 8 | just pure inset , and just headquarters , that 's all they 're interested in , not whether he knows his job or not , not whether he could give advice because he has no control over whatever comes into that shop , he does n't decide we 're not having these T-shirts in or , or we 're not having these suits in because really they 're a load of rubbish , headquarters decides it , all he does is put a nice little display out , usually , and it 's shown how to do it by headquarters and so on , these people come round and show them what to do and so on , do all that , in fact he 's as much expertise in there as I have or you have , anybody could literally with a bit of training in the company way of doing things |
| 9 | I think it would really in a way and yet the people in know how you sing so the whereas the maybe would n't know . |
| 10 | It is based on a true story so outrageous that it would never in a million years have passed muster as fiction . |
| 11 | This makes the book an easy introduction to what might otherwise to a frustrating branch of photography . |