Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I would ever do such a thing again , but when the depression settles on me I 'm very vulnerable , and if I went to see a film and it had a drowning sequence in it , or swirling water , then you just ca n't tell . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't think I 'd ever use such infantile expressions . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , I do n't think I could possibly raise that . ’ |
| 4 | Besides , I did n't think I could now save enough to make a significant difference to my standard of living when I retired , so I decided I might as well enjoy it while I had the chance . |
| 5 | My Lords , for the reasons given I would however dismiss this appeal . |
| 6 | Anyway , I realised I could never find that awful wool in that dreadful dirty mustard colour . |
| 7 | Bu I mean I 'd only advise those if you have like er you know , children with grubby hands and |
| 8 | But like , I mean God , do you know I 'd really hate that ! |
| 9 | I 'm bitterly sorry I behaved so stupidly towards you , but — I can promise I 'll never marry another man while you want me to be your wife , but — ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If I ca n't do what I want I 'd rather call this whole thing off . ’ |
| 11 | Industrial base cut so close to the bone the marrow 's leaking out , the old vaguely socialist inefficiencies replaced with more rabid capitalist ones , power centralised , corruption institutionalised , and a generation created which 'll never have any skills beyond opening a car with a coat hanger and knowing which solvents give you the best buzz with a plastic bag over your head before you throw up or pass out . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , I expect you 'd both like some coffee too . ’ |
| 13 | Ay , I I 've I 've said that to them I said well you might have , if I take to work you 'll certainly hear some they said tha well if that 's common usage words that 's what it has to be and words that we never use at all that are in dictionaries and nobody ever uses them , they want to know common ordinary speech words that we use . |
| 14 | Well a cooker you definitely , a fridge say we could perhaps borrow that one of mum 's until we could afford one . |
| 15 | It 's combining forces really ; with Cozy 's thing it would have been mostly instrumental , including Cozy 's ‘ Greatest Hits ’ , but with Tony involved we can legitimately do some Sabbath songs which he co-wrote , as we effectively have three quarters of the line-up . |
| 16 | I do n't know they 'd never do that , they 'd never do that |
| 17 | Christ , he did n't know he 'd never get another chance . ’ |
| 18 | Needless to say , the cairn crumbled , probably sabotaged by a disgruntled worker who got home to find he 'd already read this particular volume of Gaelic poetry , and Ben Lawers remains at 3,984 feet . |
| 19 | He spoke slowly , his gaze never leaving Fairham , who found he could only hold that gaze for a couple of seconds at a time . |
| 20 | There are , however , different levels of publication that could be developed which would eventually help more material to become available at the professional level that we have been discussing . |
| 21 | If someone bought me an expensive perfumed soap , I would save it — not believing I would ever have another — until I found it years later , grubby and odourless ! |
| 22 | Alice were having I said just lend me that twenty pound note cos you , and God knows what she thought the bill was I says I 've got seven pound , I says just lend me your twenty pound note , I says you 'll still have enough to pay I says and I 'll give you it back when I get home , you know ? |
| 23 | I simply assumed you would much prefer that charming nickname to your own . |
| 24 | Looking serious , he told his audience : ‘ I hope we can comfortably challenge each other ’ . |
| 25 | I knew that both picture books and bookshops came in all shapes and sizes , but I naively assumed we 'd simply conquer that hurdle with some stunning innovative design . |
| 26 | He says they would still hold all the Liberal Deomcrat strongholds in the South . |
| 27 | UK workstation business manager , Peggy Heppelmann says they will now appear any time between September and next January , claiming Hewlett-Packard 's existing £3,877 , low-end 715/33 desktop remains very competitive with other entry-level systems , including Sun Microsystems Inc 's £3,655 Tsunami-based SparcClassic and IBM Corp 's £3,664 RS/6000 220W . |
| 28 | For Assiter , fantasy is not just a harmless and essentially solitary activity in which everyone engages to a greater or lesser extent , but is something which also has an effect on the way people behave towards others , and on the way they may feel they can justifiably treat each other , particularly women . |
| 29 | It already makes black and white displays in the US , but demand for notebook personal computers with colour displays is growing , and Sharp says it would rather make these locally than export them from Japan , where they are still subject to perverse US anti-dumping duties . |
| 30 | Cypress says it can only speculate that Sun will become a customer for HyperSparc , though Cypress chief , TJ Rogers , has been sending messages via the press to the effect that if Sun does n't buy HyperSparc , then he 's going to turn around and do the Alpha RISC for DEC ( UX No 384 ) . |