Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SUBTERFUGE Newspapers and journalists serving them should use straightforward means to obtain information or pictures . |
| 2 | He argued that I should treat other people 's wants and needs as constraints upon the satisfaction of my own . |
| 3 | It 's about er ten years ago nearly that I er stopped being a teacher and when I was a teacher er up having to do assemblies er it was always something that I did with great reluctance and er was er pleased if I could get other people to do it er it seems rather odd then er that I 've actually said yes coming to do er an assembly here today and it 's perhaps a sign of mental instability on my part . |
| 4 | I could get fresh fish from the quay if I hurried . |
| 5 | I could understand other people 's language but not my own . |
| 6 | So whatever I felt , I 'd think other people had worse . |
| 7 | I 'd teach young people what I had learnt . |
| 8 | Chairman , I , I could go on but I , I think I 'd like other people to have a say . |
| 9 | And I 'm surprised erm there there is no what I would quote traditional sales er experience . |
| 10 | If I went into a club or something , I would notice other people 's clothes , and the label , even though I think it 's silly in a way , and I know they 'd notice mine . |
| 11 | If I can tell you that some of the the erm what I would call direct sales people have said they think they can sell advertising and are now in another direction or still resting |
| 12 | ‘ No , but I can light other people 's now . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't think I can stand young people . ’ |
| 14 | Announcing an extra 50,000 places on Government training schemes she promised to ‘ do all I can to help unemployed people get back to work ’ . |
| 15 | And while I can understand certain people saying that yes , smoking irritates my eyes , my nose , and yes , they 're quite right they are entitled to breathe erm u u unsolid air , if yo if you want to put it that |
| 16 | As so claims that was a rather naff comment actually , I ca n't imagine that , well I can imagine other people wearing big earrings because they 're super confident . |
| 17 | ‘ I need extra manpower until I can get spare staff over from London . |
| 18 | One of the virtues of parental investment er theory I would say is that er it 's particularly sensitive to female interests in , in in sexuality and nobody who knows me or has read er my works would , could possibly suspect me here of fashionable feminist prejudices er so I do n't say this because I think this is what people like to hear , but because I happen to think it 's true , I 'm afraid I 'm one of these old-fashioned and you may think stupid people who believe that you should er say things cos you think they 're true , not because you think er it 's what you think want w want to hear or if you say it , you 'll be accused of sexual harassment by a lecturer as I was last year . |
| 19 | In fact , you may catch small chub among your dace , mistaking a 10 oz chub for a specimen dace , in the heat of the moment . |
| 20 | It was as if it meant that you should love yourself as much as you should love other people . |
| 21 | Whereas if you think your offspring are not gon na be particularly successful , you should have female offspring because they always get , get mated in this kind of , in this kind of set up . |
| 22 | In other words , if your offspring is going to be very reproductively successful then , because of variance of male reproductive success , you should have male offspring . |
| 23 | You 'll want other people to be you campaign manager , your agent , your press agent and whatever . |
| 24 | How you 'll introduce certain people . |
| 25 | And you 've only got ta go if you go in the Savoy Hotel and just turn slightly left and you 'll find electrical headquarters there as well , and quite obviously they are very powerful organisations ! |
| 26 | Using the theory that always borrow other people 's money , and you 'll spend other people 's money is the best way is n't it ? |
| 27 | What will happen is you 'll have homeless people on the streets begging . |
| 28 | So now , whether you 'd like granulated fruit & herb flavour baby drinks , ready to drink juices or concentrated juices for baby , you can safely turn to Robinsons . |
| 29 | ‘ I ca n't say I know any of what you 'd call good people . ’ |
| 30 | By the time you had let them out you would have domesticated deer who are no longer likely to be able to fend for and defend themselves as they previously did . |