Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony in charge of services and communication , Simon in charge of policy and development , Richard in charge of resource development , and although it 's not on the script and she said I must n't to the script , I ought to mention also Samantha who has joined us as head of communications on whom , you may thank for all the sort of visuals that we 're having , and the bright idea of videoing er , our Chairman . |
| 2 | I thought I would get a job there but I could n't for a few months and er , my wife and two children joined me there and my brother 's wife joined us there , and two of us bought the house in Luton . |
| 3 | That evening , I went to see King Lear at the Old Vic , but I was unable to shake off my self-pity and I could n't for the life of me see what the old git was moaning about . |
| 4 | You know , when I was bringing up my children in the early seventies I read about the the mergence of the new working woman , you know , how to balance a career and a home and children , and I could n't for the life of me think what was new about this working woman ! |
| 5 | ‘ I could n't for the life of me remember the English name for this vehicle and certainly did n't know what the Russian name was , so I asked him what he would call it . ’ |
| 6 | I could n't for the life of me understand what Emily Lightbody might see in him , except an eternal good time . |
| 7 | But I could n't in the end ! |
| 8 | For the next few days I was horribly inactive , gripped by a lethargy that I could not for the life of me understand . |
| 9 | I said that it would be unkind and discourteous to decline a visit , but I could not for the life of me see how I could help him where persons of much greater power were impotent . |
| 10 | I could not in the court of law swear that you had been under my observations the whole time we were making the ascent . ’ |
| 11 | When you have thought about all these things , when you have fully absorbed into the darkest parts of your mind the sub-human horror of them , you will realize , must realize , with the blinding force of a revelation that I could not by the very nature of my soul be so implicated in such a maze of lust and filth . |
| 12 | looking at those well it was Denise who brought the list in , but I 'd already with the sta er the gardens but , you know the garden scheme in Northumberland . |
| 13 | I would n't for the world he should miscarry . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I would not for a moment have it supposed that I mean anything derogatory to Dr. Yeats … but human nature is fallible . |
| 15 | I would not for a moment be without these sterling qualities but the imagery of this great movement is vivid and declamatory and Bach 's intention was surely to arouse the passions of his audience . |
| 16 | It is wholly unnecessary to go that far in the present case and I would not for a moment suggest that the common law of England is bound or even likely to follow every twist of the development of the common law in the United States . |
| 17 | I would not for a moment propose we face the same immediate peril confronting the world in the early 1940s . |
| 18 | Sir er sir the I think I would not for a moment argue that minerals considerations can be ove overriding in this matter . |
| 19 | Gentlemen , I would not for the world be judge in a cause in which I am one party among three . |
| 20 | And I would not for the world meddle with her plans , though I am proud that she has consented on the way to visit me for a while . |
| 21 | I would not for the world keep him from his rest . |
| 22 | If your good lady mother is indisposed , I would not for the world — ’ |
| 23 | Having said that , I would not as a film producer be here today without sums of money like the Eady levy [ a tax on cinema seats ] . |
| 24 | I would never in a planning matter , readily make an absolute statement like that . |
| 25 | where I would headlong into the thing . |
| 26 | I ca n't for the life of me understand what it is you see in it . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh heck , I ca n't for the life of me remember . ’ |
| 28 | Yes , the Government 's sending armaments to help Poland in her fight against the Soviet , but I ca n't for the life of me see what that 's got to do with you ! ’ |
| 29 | GUIL : I ca n't for the life of me see how we 're going to get into conversation . |
| 30 | Was I perhaps too busy noticing things that Dr Starkie was missing ( though what they might have been I ca n't for the moment think ) ? |