Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , let's explore more fully what is so important about iteration . |
| 2 | I should think almost certainly there was a chapel at that point |
| 3 | But if the electorate is indeed of a mind that it is ‘ time for a change ’ , then it should consider carefully just what sort of change it would be letting itself in for . |
| 4 | If you are not going to confine your search to the agencies then you must consider very carefully what your options are . |
| 5 | The patient wants to keep still but the pains can be so severe that they must move so sometimes they can appear to be restless . |
| 6 | I thought , if I was going to find a husband with prospects , maybe I should start right away I was n't getting any younger . |
| 7 | I should say so so what 's he ? |
| 8 | Students may choose quite early which behaviours to avoid for ever — or try to . |
| 9 | In South Africa , you might think just about everyone owns a Rottweiler — especially if you read the small ads in the papers , where owners lament their loss and sign themselves ‘ Devastated Rotty Lover ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ If you can sleep for a couple of hours , while the tablets take effect , I 'm sure by this evening you 'll feel much more your old self . ’ |
| 11 | Another recently asked my advice about the finer points of his own computer program so that he might catalogue more accurately his card collection , so vast had it become ( if any one has a mint Drummahoe No 1 , he would be most indebted ) . |
| 12 | They 'll arrest pretty much anyone involved with either the rebellion or the government . |
| 13 | Before I could think any more my mouth had decided . |
| 14 | Anyway , if you were n't so futile , you 'd know jolly well I 've no need to make Pogo jealous . ’ |
| 15 | A person with money could buy just about anything . |
| 16 | Then , while it seemed that he was the one who was going to apply the antiseptic — a job she could do quite well herself — he was speeding away any huffiness she felt at that last thought by asking her her name . |
| 17 | She was determined that there would be no reconciliation , and even though she had found that the sound of his voice reminded her vividly and immediately that she had loved him and could do so again she lay smiling with pleasure at the sheer satisfaction of unforgivingness . |
| 18 | I earned a few sous so I became more fantastical , maintaining I had met Brahmins who killed themselves on funeral pyres ; men with monkeys ’ heads and leopards ' bodies ; giants with only one eye and one foot who could run so fast they could only be caught if they fell asleep in the lap of a virgin . |
| 19 | ‘ I think Jimi would have still been fusing things , and when he got done finding everything that he could fuse together then he would have invented a couple more things and then fused them with everything else . |
| 20 | If you look at the players they 've got you 'd think they 'd destroy just about anyone ( Giggs/Rush/Saunders/Hughes/Speed/ Southall/Hazelwood ( sp ? ) ) . |
| 21 | In addition , Wycliffe could hear quite clearly what was happening in the outer office — the clacking of a typewriter , the girls exchanging scraps of conversation . |
| 22 | She could read very well herself . |
| 23 | Up and up we went and when I could walk no longer he lay me down and covered me with kisses and love bites . |
| 24 | all the way up to the mountains , you could walk so far you could nearly cross over and go to another village right up the mountains , just keep walking and walking for ever , or you could go into the |
| 25 | Oh yes , yes in the , in the window yes I think and many and many a ticket I got when I first got married to my first wife I used to do my mother-in-law 's little tickets for all the various custards , and , and Eccles cakes and four for thruppence ha'penny it does n't of course I could print right you see she said , being a draughtsman I always could print right so I used to do the four for thruppence ha'penny . |
| 26 | ‘ Yeah , our sound could go anywhere now we 've got more money and better equipment , ’ continues Rikky . |
| 27 | ‘ Yeah , our sound could go anywhere now we 've got more money and better equipment , ’ continues Rikky . |
| 28 | If I could leave right now I would ! ’ |
| 29 | He still had difficulties focusing , but could tell clearly enough what was happening in front of him . |
| 30 | You could tell right away he did n't want to know . |