Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pentagon would have been furious at losing an agent as well as a major mission , but there was little or nothing it could say or do to put things right without acknowledging that Coleman was an agent and thereby admitting that , for the better part of two years , the DIA had been spying , not on the country 's official enemies , but on other agencies of the United States government . |
| 2 | So he raised his wings , which still bore the light-coloured plumage of a juvenile , reared up his head in as fierce a way as he could , and called out , ‘ I did not choose to come to this miserable place , or to live with ones such as you who grow angry at nothing , or nothing I can understand . |
| 3 | The decision whether or not to exercise this power , and to serve a notice before hearing the persons to whom it is directed or whom it will affect , must be one which the board must balance against what it regards as the interests of investors . |
| 4 | He asked a scout to search through the turmoil and pick out Tiguary , if possible , or someone who could give him a message . |
| 5 | Or I I 'll start to read it . |
| 6 | Go to the window shout and make it , make your plight known to your neighbours because normally there 's somebody passing , policeman on his beat or somebody who 'll make your plight known . |
| 7 | but , but that 's , that 's that 's easily remedied if you could get a er a driving licence holder to take them oh a volunteer driving licence holder among one of the parents or somebody who could take the children , er , periodically in the bus to visit the hospital to do this sort of thing . |
| 8 | But that 's that 's perhaps easily remedied , if you could get a er a driving licence holder to take them , who , a volunteer driving licence holder , among one of the parents or somebody who could take the children at periodic intervals to visit the hospital to do this sort of thing . |
| 9 | By a letter dated 23 October 1991 they stated that they did not intend to intervene or be heard and that , since the paragraph applied only to disclosure by the defendants in compliance with the order it would not prevent them from using any material which they had already obtained or which they might obtain independently . |
| 10 | If Roman Catholics believe that abortion is always wrong and contrary to God 's law , there is no compromise they can be offered , or which they can accept , which will satisfy their principles . |
| 11 | Existing rooms which need a face-lift or which you would like to have a completely new image are much more of a problem . |
| 12 | Once you can identify where it fits , you have a general framework in which to tackle it — or which you can challenge if you wish to . |
| 13 | This option allows a measure of latitude to opt for jury trial on indictment to a person accused of a more serious offence , or one which could have profound effects on him if found guilty . |
| 14 | are you in possession , that you 're aware of any documents where you issue a request for the brochure to be updated in September nineteen eighty six or September nineteen eighty seven is there any document either in your possession or one you would get by another , from your request for updating these brochures |
| 15 | Like the first type , it always implies incidence to an actualizer of the infinitive event , someone or something which would have been explicitly expressed as the subject had the verb been finite . |
| 16 | Unless there 's a special fluid or something they could put it in there to wash through |
| 17 | but he he would never stay except , you know , it always had to be in respectable kind of a barn or something he would live in , least And in fact instead of that he would ra if it was good days he would rather lie at the dyke side . |
| 18 | And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point . |
| 19 | What you bury is private , but why not records of your family , or your memories of Oxford , or something you would like mankind in the future to know . |
| 20 | If you were a tortoise or a beetle or something you might get some return … ’ |
| 21 | And probably a book or a crossword puzzle or something you could do when you were down there , you know . |
| 22 | Are you suggesting that apart from this relief you 've been set you might see Wogan tonight or something you could think |
| 23 | There 's always something you think you could have done or something you could have said . |
| 24 | she said if you started off with cereal porridge or something you could have perhaps two rounds of cheese on toast for your break |
| 25 | By the time he 's about twelve or something I 'll go when 's your birthday mate ? |
| 26 | Kent or something I 'll take a chance and I 'll go this way and I went , and I came out there 's a garage on the way to Beckenham . |
| 27 | we 'll I think , be okay and , provided we do n't excessively energetic and too stupid , get too hot in the bath or that 's not a very good thing to do , or crash out with er flu or something I dare say anyone can crash out , I mean you , you , you could be a president of the United States |
| 28 | you got a bin or something I can knock the , the remains into ? |
| 29 | If I was some fucking private eye or something I 'd head back out to Mr Azul 's big house and break in somehow and find something really interesting or a body or a beautiful woman ( or just get slugged on the back of the head and wake up wise-cracking ) . |
| 30 | Play him or her you can explain the results which you want from the session and the engineer can advise you on any extra equipment which you may need to hire . |