Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A family of four slept on through what could have been a tragedy in this farmhouse near Thame . |
| 2 | And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room . |
| 3 | Birdwatchers had always worried terribly about what would happen to Brownsea after the owner , Mrs Bonham-Christie , died . |
| 4 | They had not worried for themselves , only about what would happen to Emily . |
| 5 | They were worried only about what would happen to the monetary value of the paintings and their business as dealers . |
| 6 | No , only about I 'd say late twenties Ed , you know , do know what it was though , he never had a drink he just sat there talking to himself , having a good chat to somebody , aye |
| 7 | Unfortunately , French planners seem to have adopted the philosophy Cogito , ergo est ( Thinking enough about something will make it happen ) . |
| 8 | WHEN HUNDREDS of nuclear engineers came together for what should have been a festive shindig last week , there was universal gloom . |
| 9 | But in between we should imagine a gap in the tageia : Plutarch ( On the Malice of Herodotus , xxi ) says that Leotychidas ‘ ended the tyranny ’ ( temporarily ) ; and if Echekratidas was a Spartan nominee whose tageia went right back to 476 his Athenian alliance is harder to explain . |
| 10 | Anyone who tried to set up in between us would find it hard going . |
| 11 | The B film was a Western starring Randolph Scott , and when that was over he would watch Jane Russell again , and somewhere in between he would eat his boiled egg and perhaps sleep for a while . |
| 12 | In between it can vary , depending on interest rates and the market . |
| 13 | But , even then , it may fail and it should again be emphasised that family members benefit from their own sake from involvement in the Family Fellowships regardless of what may happen to the primary sufferer . |
| 14 | Nonetheless , the purpose of the Family Fellowships is to help family members with their own feelings and recovery , regardless of whatever may happen to the primary sufferer . |
| 15 | When the deadline for judging whether the republics should be recognised arrives in January , will the 12 Foreign Ministers meet again to decide collectively whether the criteria have been met and whether all of them will recognise or not recognise the republics ? |
| 16 | P.B. All of this , which would go I think contrary … much of it would go contrary to the basic Catholic belief . |
| 17 | The importance of practising empathy , especially with what may appear strange and uncongenial , is a major aspect of RE . |
| 18 | Along with them will go the ents and the dwarves , indeed the whole imagined world of Middle-earth , to be replaced by modernity and the domination of men ; all the characters and their story , one might say , will shrink to poetic ‘ rigmaroles ’ and misunderstood snatches in plays and ballads . |
| 19 | He had no official status and no powers of arrest , but once he 'd identified Alina then the two officers along with him would have been able to detain her on immigration charges . |
| 20 | It therefore comes down to who should develop the guidance . |
| 21 | We sometimes get the feeling that not all the bodies that come down to us need have done . ’ |
| 22 | One good example of it is a fabliau called Sire Hain et Dame Anieuse , " Sir Hatred and Lady Obnoxious " , where an antagonistic husband and wife fight a crudely physical and violent battle , literally over who should have the trousers . |
| 23 | Let's start all over we can start all over , yeah . |
| 24 | Dotted all over you can see the symbol of Wenceslas IV — a kingfisher and a towel . |
| 25 | But a car was seen slowing down at what might have been a pick-up point on the A12 . |
| 26 | And he did so at what must have been a very fashionable address : 36 Wilmington Square , Spa Fields , peopled with Esquires and seemingly rather an unlikely location for such an enterprise . |
| 27 | Moran was neither rich nor poor but his hatred and fear of poverty was as fierce as his fear of illness which meant that he would never be poor but that he and all around him would live as if they were paupers . |
| 28 | The other people all around us must have thought — I do n't know what they must have thought . |
| 29 | At some time or another most of us will have sat beside the shore of a loch when there 's complete calm and not a breath of air . |
| 30 | He produced a notebook and took down the address of the party in Fulham ( as best as I could remember it ) and the time , which I guessed at around 11.15 p.m . |