Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [modal v] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing was , they were playing blues in both major and minor keys , and I was feeling very tied down by the number of notes I could reach in my major open tunings . |
| 2 | He could fly all day long and all night long if he wanted , but I wanted him to get 100 hours at night and I felt that despite his enthusiasm I would like to he shot of him for a period . |
| 3 | I knew he was there , and that if I tried to move in a certain direction I 'd bump into him . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll hang myself , ’ I used to mutter over and over again , or for a change I would stare at my shotgun and wonder at the sort of mess I could make of myself . |
| 5 | Have you got a pound coin I can borrow of you dear ? |
| 6 | But that we get a balance right between the amount of regulations an and the cost of it but that it is in a sense , effective and and the plea I would make to my honourable friend when he considers this P I A prospectus and what should be done and wh to what extent the government feels it should support it , is that what we actually want is not a specific requirement that says you 've got to have this much , that much capital erm and so on , but that there is a function , there is a regular audit trail , there is a a regular , annual look at the figures , the accounts of all these intermediaries , er and firms where the difficulty has been er in the past . |
| 7 | We talked of England : and my host was so inspiring in his eloquence on the subject of what England might have achieved in friendship with Germany that , as I looked out on the twilight enshrouding the Kurfiarstendamm I could think of nothing to say but Marlowe 's famous lines : |
| 8 | ‘ Lady Amelia , tomorrow , in your chapter meeting after the morning Mass , tell your sisters that before Vespers I will speak to them and explain all that has happened . ’ |
| 9 | With all my heart I will go to your lady . ’ |
| 10 | You know I always let myself be advised by you , and of course I 'll bow to your judgement on this if I have to … |
| 11 | ‘ Of course I can live without you . |
| 12 | These these are a measure are n't they they 're a measure of the quality of what we 're going to do over the next two days and therefore I will come back to these tomorrow afternoon I will check through them and if everybody can say yes yes I 'm satisfied with that then we 've achieved what we set out to achieve today . |
| 13 | I love rugby and if I had the opportunity I would pull on my boots and play tomorrow . |
| 14 | We are we are we are running out of time , John Taylor John Taylor I 'll come to you in a second , John Taylor shush , shush you 've had your shout , John Taylor |
| 15 | He was the heartbeat of the team in 1966 … my lieutenant on the field , a cool , calculated footballer I could trust with my life . ’ |
| 16 | Times I 'd lie in my bed , late at night , and shudder to think my Jake 'd wedded her in a Christian church . ’ |
| 17 | I was aware I was staggering slightly , lurching sporadically into Jamie or the girl , but there was n't a great deal I could do about it ; I felt rather like one of those ancient dinosaurs so huge that they had a virtually separate brain to control their back legs . |
| 18 | I think , the best analogy I can produce for you is that a a balance in which various factors act on the side of the host and various factors act on the side of the organism , and the outcome is disease and death if the organism wins out and outcome is resistance or recovery if the the host wins out . |
| 19 | Right , David I 'll talk to you . |
| 20 | Details of DEA operations in Lebanon , cross-checked with whatever feedback I could get from my guys over there . |
| 21 | Sorry , a folly is a technical term I used to use in my art history days . |
| 22 | I had a sort of despair for days afterwards , thinking how much of their rotten , pretentious blood I must have in me . |
| 23 | He would n't get the main farm , of course , but there was a very nice little property over at Wisbech which would come to him . |
| 24 | Poachers operate after dark and it is crucial that you should not be confused with them , unwittingly provide them with cover , or create any confusion which might result in their not being apprehended . |
| 25 | I have learnt of your work via my colleague in Hong Kong , Fiona Lauder , who says that you would be interested in contributing a script which could fit into our Resources Books for Teachers series . |
| 26 | He and Philip Burton conducted what could be looked on as some kind of elaborate courtship ritual which would result in his hurtling on to a world stage . |
| 27 | In contrast to Mallet and Naville , they do not appear to believe that there is any fundamental conflict of interests between capital and labour which would lead to them expressing opposing preferences with regard to the taking up of the job design principles they advocate . |
| 28 | A further point is that your protected rights must be used to purchase the annuity which will pay for your annual pension when you retire ; they can not be used as a contribution towards your lump sum . |
| 29 | You could even have these put together in a special album which will add to your happy memories in the days and years to come . |
| 30 | Other students from outside the UK attending a British university for a course lasting over six months are entitled to free care for any medical condition which may arise during their stay in the UK . |