Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [modal v] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing was , they were playing blues in both major and minor keys , and I was feeling very tied down by the number of notes I could reach in my major open tunings . |
| 2 | And the reasons I 'll come onto in a moment . |
| 3 | The only popular spectator sport , as opposed to game , is professional boxing although for reasons I shall come to later , the only sportsmen involved are those backing the contenders and not the participants themselves . |
| 4 | The only reasons I can think of are 1 ) trying to scare Deano into scoring ( ! ) ; and 2 ) work permits . |
| 5 | I resisted the urge to retort with his curtness , ‘ Because he 's not sleepy ’ , and gave all the medical reasons I could think of . |
| 6 | Besides , for reasons I will come to shortly , the name Argol was familiar to me . |
| 7 | Then I think I read some of my favourite English poems — Hardy , Hopkins , Housman , Blake , Yeats , Edward Thomas , Wilfred Owen , and I think one each by Ted Hughes and Thom Gunn , the only contemporaries I could stand at that time . |
| 8 | Then there 's a jolt — I 'm not the same as these women , I have no children , no dependants and I have skills I can sell without impediment . |
| 9 | Such cases I shall refer to as hybrid judicial review actions . |
| 10 | ‘ Lady Amelia , tomorrow , in your chapter meeting after the morning Mass , tell your sisters that before Vespers I will speak to them and explain all that has happened . ’ |
| 11 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 12 | There were scales I would hear in music and I used to think to myself , ‘ I need to learn that scale , ’ or , ‘ I need to learn how he got that effect using that scale with those chords , ’ and basically what Joe gave me was that sort of thinking . |
| 13 | ‘ If I was in the same situation again 100 times I would come for the same punch and back myself to clear the ball every time ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It 's one of the fastest times I can remember for so early in the season , ’ said Christie . |
| 15 | Times I 'd lie in my bed , late at night , and shudder to think my Jake 'd wedded her in a Christian church . ’ |
| 16 | I remember once , yeah it was like that , yeah that 's right , not one , but a few times I used to get on the train from Runcorn to Liverpool , I had an address to go to in Liverpool , rough directions how to get there , to pick up a suit or to pick up a fitting , you know you 'd get the , the different |
| 17 | And I must add here that my own skin also became smoother and whilst at times I used to suffer from dry skin , strangely I no longer do . |
| 18 | For even taking into account my employer 's generous offer to ‘ foot the bill for the gas ’ , the costs of such a trip might still come to a surprising amount considering such matters as accommodation , meals , and any small snacks I might partake of on my way . |
| 19 | And if I want to hear inane rat-tat-tats I 'll go to the jungle and listen to the crickets . |
| 20 | If I open my eyes I 'll fall into the sky ! ’ |
| 21 | He made over forty transcriptions of the sonnets ‘ as the best presents I could offer to those , who had in any way won my regard ’ , and in his own poetic experiments of the next few years found an important model in the work of the now-forgotten Wiltshire priest . |
| 22 | Upstairs I shall have a small flat , a kitchen and bathroom and a big bed-sitting-room ; the other big bedrooms I shall turn into classrooms . " |
| 23 | These issues have been well raised and aired over the last few months I would like to now raise another issue that I do n't think has been publicized enough that is the issue of under-provision in old age . |
| 24 | I intend to start with the Dwarf Angel , and after three months I will put in a very young Regal Tang , which I would keep until it is three inches long . |
| 25 | A. The Flag or Festive Cichlid , Mesonauta festivus , is one of the most peaceful Cichlids I can think of . |
| 26 | Mouthed all the swear words I could think of — and that was quite a lot . |
| 27 | There are lots of plain old-fashioned words I can think of right now , going back to the Bible , some of them . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I was under no illusions I would walk into the team here , ’ he said . |
| 29 | I always wondered if they were his demons or familiars which could scuttle along the walls to listen for treason and search out conspiracy . |
| 30 | Scientific fears are based mainly on suggested risks which might arise from releasing new organisms into the environment , whether they are plants , animals , bacteria or viruses . |