Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [modal v] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd normally vote Labour , ’ she said , ‘ but I do n't think I can this time . ’ |
| 2 | In fact , I do n't think I can this week , " Sara added in a rush . |
| 3 | Mike said : ‘ She breathed for three minutes , giving us hope she would one day be able to breathe for herself . |
| 4 | Mike said : ‘ She breathed for three minutes , giving us hope she would one day be able to breathe for herself . |
| 5 | I hope we 'll some action in the near future . |
| 6 | Father Heidt feels women like Gloucester Cathedral Chaplain , Vivienne Faull , are being conned by the debate into believing they may some day be ordained . |
| 7 | In 1968 , the watershed year of the student riots in Paris , when most of the new generation of radicals were denouncing the Labour Party as hopelessly fuddy-duddy , he had joined up , believing it would one day become the focus for a new alliance of Right-On movements , Now , more than a decade on , his dream was starting to come true and the new radical politics were about to be released on an unsuspecting populace — with mixed results . |
| 8 | When he first struck up a friendship with Joanna , he could never have suspected it would one day put him firmly in the frame in a potential murder investigation . |
| 9 | I do n't think you will this year cos , cos you have n't I 'm having to say oh come on we 've got to go and visit her . |
| 10 | After his arrest he threatened officers by drawing his finger across his neck to suggest he would one day kill them . |
| 11 | However the Village Association would be willing to subsidise it should other arrangements be made to continue . |
| 12 | Mind you I suppose you can certain pupils you remember their names . |
| 13 | Consultants claim it could double services between Queen Street and Waverley stations with a train leaving every fifteen minutes . |
| 14 | Consultants claim it could double services between the trwo cities . |
| 15 | But , on the contrary , it had been the beginning of the lifelong fight for Swift , because Jamie knew it might one day fall into his lap . |
| 16 | A well known joker thought he would liven things up a bit . |
| 17 | colours , that means you can double bank on the lawn , you can have two games going on at once . |
| 18 | Mr I think we can sorry Professor Lock . |
| 19 | I think they should double check and treble check to make sure someone does n't escape . |
| 20 | I said I wish I could happy go lucky like that I do n't think she re , she rings me up , you do n't wan na ring me ! |
| 21 | I was secretly hoping I would one day find a way of escaping and returning to my own country . |
| 22 | I think as early as 1947 you said you must one day make music on film . |
| 23 | No you , you go down , off and she said you can full holidays arranged daily , and we came that was on the Tuesday , the Wednesday I had to phone them , done on Friday ! |
| 24 | They generously hoped she would one day be happy with Angel again , and were afraid for her , knowing that Alec d'Urberville was constantly tempting her . |
| 25 | They 're never going to get rich or famous , but they love thinking they 'll one day be legendary to Those Who Really I now . |
| 26 | They 're growing up all over the place and as you say , Ernie he he he did say about education but whose gon na run education in the future same as social services , you 'll soon find they 'll social services up into the health service . |
| 27 | He believes he can double Tiphook 's size almost by standing still . |
| 28 | Society itself and those who govern it need such understanding ; and in a democratic society this entails that the study of the humanities be widely spread , not confined to an élite of self-indulgers , the leather blotter-owning classes . |
| 29 | are you be able to tell us would that page at twenty six m , eighty five be part of the original brochure or part of something which erm was later brought out ? , looking at the type and the print in the brochure , if you ca n't help us just say |