Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 've tried , I ca n't for the life of me remember them |
| 32 | Well I ca n't at the moment can I ? |
| 33 | No I ca n't at the moment sweetheart , because I 'm feeding the baby . |
| 34 | I ca n't at the moment , I 'll do it in a minute for you . |
| 35 | Mack McLarty , his chief of staff , seems to have imposed his will neither on the business of generating ideas nor on working out how to implement them . |
| 36 | ‘ But I wo n't with the boy . ’ |
| 37 | I wo n't on the way I wo n't on the way back . |
| 38 | I wo n't on the way I wo n't on the way back . |
| 39 | If I am writing on this side of the paper I can not at the same moment be writing on the other side . |
| 40 | I can not for the life of me imagine a place as distant as Italy . |
| 41 | I can not for the life of me understand anglers who use those lifeless , poker-like , stepped-up carp rods coupled with lines of 12lb or less . |
| 42 | Only my problem is , all my package-tour details were in the small valise , and — would you believe it ? — I can not for the life of me recall where I am checked in . |
| 43 | I can not for the life of me see why children have to take so long to grow up . |
| 44 | I can not for the life of me see why the County Council as the Statutory Authority and supposedly an independent er er body to British Coal is so resistant to a full public inquiry when only the clear er proposals of British Coal will come out . |
| 45 | I can not for the life of me see why they 're so resistant to it . |
| 46 | I can not for the life of me see this is a reasonable attitude on the part of the County Council . |
| 47 | I can not for the life of me see Wilko releasin Rocky , especially for only 1 Million . |
| 48 | Whilst I can not within the scope of a short book consider what each religion in turn has to say about God , I can at least take note of the religious pluralism of our time . |
| 49 | You might even on the odd occasion , go a whole week without making a sale . |
| 50 | and one of the girls who I was speaking to , oh I 'd like to do that , she could n't for the , the one that we 're doing |
| 51 | There had to be something she could say , something sharp and snappy , tailor-made to disabuse him of that idea , but was n't it just typical that she could n't for the life of her think what it was ? |
| 52 | The contract had been until the end of September when she could reapply for the job she had been turned down for , ‘ provided she had had sufficient experience nursing very sick children ’ , he said . |
| 53 | So you would still be able to identify targets but those targets may become a bit more general , I E because in the past the landlord as a class had always sided with the Kuomintang then i it gives you the opportunity to go back and attack them , almost the landlords per se in a way you could n't during the Japanese war because clearly loyal landlords were fighting the Japanese . |
| 54 | ‘ The one that says you own the world and all that 's in it , that says you ca n't for the life of you figure out why I 'm not jumping for joy at the prospect of staying on here , in this house , as your grandmother 's companion . ’ |
| 55 | You 'll be able to , but you ca n't at the moment . |
| 56 | Maggie 's relation to them in space does n't change that much ; you can see them from the kitchen ; you ca n't from the bedsitting room . |
| 57 | ‘ You can hear the engine , which you ca n't in the BMW , but maybe some people like that . ’ |
| 58 | Well you ca n't in the dark can you really ? |
| 59 | As to what would have happened without the event of the accident in her A level year by way of results , I regret I have to find as a fact that she would not in the year of her accident , have achieved the grades necessary for her to take up a place at Norwich City College . |
| 60 | Even if she were to write she knew she would never post the letter . |