Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We might have a silly name , stupid haircuts and we might jump around like idiots , but we 're not irrelevant . ’ |
| 32 | We might have a silly name , stupid haircuts and we might jump around like idiots , but we 're not irrelevant . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ She 'll grow up with rickets like the rest of 'em , ’ she said , rubbing Patrick 's thin legs which failed to support him when he attempted to pull himself up against his father 's chair . |
| 34 | The young men who had grown to manhood in the past fourteen years had had no experience of war , and little of fighting , other than the kind that might break out between neighbours , or the kind they saw during their service at court , when a raid on coast or frontier had to be repelled , or the King 's justice enforced . |
| 35 | Now he 'll look out for restaurants we can both go to , ’ she explains . |
| 36 | And when people see psychoanalysis in a different content , then they might look back to things Freud and Bullett studies , and say , well , perhaps it was n't so amusing after all . |
| 37 | It had been suggested ( by Jack ? ) that he might move in with Ludens , an idea which ( although he was genuinely fond of Pat ) Ludens did not fancy . |
| 38 | Some might set off from observations like these to construct a formal system which would provide different representations for the different types of non-linguistic referents ( beings or situations or things ) for which , logically , the various phrases could be used in our own or some other possible world . |
| 39 | Erm so we 'll move on to matters arising and Alan has asked me er in the role erm erm of chairman . |
| 40 | you are on to a good thing , you 'll end up with knitteds that suit you because they fit . |
| 41 | Still the Japanese refused to surrender and it appeared that the war might drag on for months , even years , at terrible cost . |
| 42 | ‘ He 'll go on for hours . ’ |
| 43 | She might go on for years ; I could be as old as she is now before she finally gives up the ghost . |
| 44 | The room , Robert felt , might go on for yards and yards . |
| 45 | Absolutely , yes , I mean , I followed an entirely erm conventional format for the agenda here , I mean we , do we have a , all I was thinking of doing was checking whether these minutes are a true representation of last week , and if they are , we 'll press on to matters arising , yes ? |
| 46 | But although recent decisions by Oxfordshire County Council and South Oxfordshire District Council have gone against the club , managing director , Pat McGere , says he 'll press on with efforts to have the club relocated from the Manor Ground . |
| 47 | The sergeant — his pace blackened with boot polish — assured me , ‘ You 'll get through at Clones . ’ |
| 48 | ‘ As soon as my leg is better I 'll get back to things as before ’ |
| 49 | ‘ The board has a contemporary attitude to graphics , people who 'll come up with ideas in the future . |
| 50 | ‘ Of course I will , Mother , I 'm only going up the road , I 'll come back at weekends . ’ |
| 51 | Well I 'll come back in weeks and . |
| 52 | Oh he 'll get hold of a hedgehog and shake it and with that he 'll come out with prickles all on the end |
| 53 | I said , that if it was not troublesome and presuming too much , I would request him to tell me all the little circumstances of his life ; what schools he attended , when he came to Oxford , when he came to London , &c. , &c. , He did not disapprove of my curiosity as to these particulars ; but said , ‘ They 'll come out by degrees as we talk together . ’ ’ |
| 54 | ‘ We might wander about for hours and waste a great deal of time . |
| 55 | The executive might turn up in trainers and the double glazing salesman in a suit . |
| 56 | Former Middlesbrough midfielder Mark Burke could line up for Wolves . |
| 57 | ‘ I 'd rear up on players if they said anything and footballers are n't the bravest people in the world , so they used to think twice before they said anything to me and that helped me . ’ |
| 58 | ‘ They 'd shrivel up like walnuts , ’ she said to Karen , who had joined her to wash off the debris of the laughing fit . |
| 59 | That she could look up at men rather than over or down at them . |
| 60 | One of their main attractions were the promenade decks from which passengers could look down on seas , rivers , forests and cities . |